Jo Macfarlane
Journalist and Copywriter at Freelance
Award-winning freelance journalist. Health/medical/science. Doesn't make candles 🏴
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1 week ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Jo Macfarlane
Taken on the sun-drenched terrace of an upmarket Mayfair restaurant, the infamous pictures sent shockwaves around the world. A terrified-looking Nigella Lawson was seen embroiled in a dispute with her then-husband Charles Saatchi, which culminated in him putting his hands around the chef's throat.
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1 week ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Jo Macfarlane
Looking at Kyla Fuller today it is almost impossible to imagine that she spent more than a decade desperately ill. The 33-year-old practically radiates with enthusiasm, and has a zest for life that allows her to work on charter boats on Australia’s tropical Queensland coast. But rewind two years and it was a different story. Her body was ravaged by such severe Crohn’s disease she was hospitalised several times with agonising bowel abscesses and abdominal pain.
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2 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Jo Macfarlane
Since being diagnosed with a potentially deadly rare allergy condition a little over two years ago, James Giddings has lived in a state of ‘constant vigilance’. The father-of-three wears gloves most days and won’t shake hands with anyone. When his children tumble home from school, they must be carefully washed before he can risk hugging them. Unfamiliar bathrooms are used only in an emergency and he no longer visits the hairdresser.
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Jo Macfarlane
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2 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Jo Macfarlane
Cash-strapped hospitals have written off £256.4 million owed by foreign patients because of failures to properly check that they were entitled to free NHS treatment. An investigation by The Mail on Sunday shows escalating debts from health tourists – who have had everything from spinal surgery to heart care and cancer treatment – is creating a growing black hole in NHS finances.
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All of this without the dogs, please.
Instead of nightclubs I want a 24hr library with hot chocolate stations, a dessert bar, coffee machine, big comfy chairs and beanbags, blankets, dogs welcome, just people who want to spend the evening reading alone, together, peaceful, a cosy fire, plants, an indoor waterfall.
RT @doctor_oxford: Very few people realise that the vast majority of hospice and palliative care is provided by charity - not by the NHS.…
Something must be done
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