58 h. ago Mum told baby 'might not survive birth' shares joy at thriving toddler

Taylor Hardie, 31, received the devastating news at her 20-week scan.

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6 d. ago Children bearing brunt of 'super flu' crisis as Wes Streeting warns raging outbreak could TRIPLE in size and fears grow that looming doctors' strike could collapse overwhelmed NHS

The NHS is facing its most challenging winter since Covid-and the entire system could crumble under the pressure, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has warned.

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6 d. ago Children baring brunt of 'super flu' crisis as Wes Streeting warns raging outbreak could TRIPLE in size and fears grow that looming doctors' strike could collapse overwhelmed NHS

Children and teenagers are driving the surge in 'mutant flu' cases, new figures have revealed.

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6 d. ago NHS pinpoints the age group most likely to be affected by new mutant flu strain

Children and teenagers are driving the surge in 'mutant flu' cases, new figures have revealed.

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7 d. ago People think that when you're dying you climb Everest, do extraordinary things on a bucket list...but you don't: Author Sophie Kinsella revealed how 'little treats' helped her through three

The writer and mother-of-five, whose real name is Madeleine Sophie Wickham, received the devastating diagnosis of glioblastoma in 2022.

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8 d. ago Confessions of a Shopaholic author Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55: Mother

The writer, real name Madeleine Sophie Wickham, had received the devastating diagnosis of glioblastoma in 2022.

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3 w. ago NHS confirmed full list of people who can get free prescriptions as new figures released

A wide variety of people across the UK could be eligible for free NHS prescriptions - from pensioners aged 60 and over to benefit claimants and those with specific medical conditions

Economics

3 w. ago 'Next generation' treatment to cure Leukaemia is given NHS approval

Obe-cel is a type of CAR T-cell therapy developed in the UK and works by genetically modifying cells to enable the body's own immune system to recognise and attack cancer.

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3 w. ago ‘I received devastating leukaemia diagnosis aged 17 but new NHS 'cure' offers hope’

NHS trialled pioneering new CAR T-cell therapy on student Harry Brown and is now rolling it out to other leukaemia patients

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3 w. ago Elderly couple who jumped to deaths together left chilling 'marker' at clifftop

David and Susan Jeffcock fell to their deaths in East Cliff, Whitby, after David received a devastating health diagnosis of bone cancer with his nephew saying 'he didn’t want to keep deteriorating'

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3 w. ago ‘We’ve got to find answers’: Corby families affected by cancer searching for truth about toxic waste sites

Alison Gaffney believes her son’s rare leukaemia was caused by dumped toxic waste from the town’s steelworksAlison Gaffney and Andy Hinde received the devastating news that their 17-month-old son, Fraser, had a rare type of leukaemia in 2018.Two years of gruelling treatment followed, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy, before a stem cell transplant. Fraser, then aged three, made a “miraculous recovery” from the surgery, before doctors declared the cancer in remission. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Striking junior doctors could get guaranteed pension of nearly £125,000 a year once they retire, research shows

Resident doctors, as they are now called, who begins working for the NHS at 23 and retire by the age of 65 are capable of having an annual allowance of £124,363 a year, analysis found.

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