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msn.com | Meike Leonard
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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Meike Leonard
Forgetting how to do basic arithmetic, swearing in front of your children or suddenly finding yourself unable to remember how to use the printer are all little-known signs of early dementia, a leading expert has warned. Known as young-onset dementia, the condition has risen by a shocking 69 per cent in the last decade—with more than 70,000 people affected.
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dailymail.co.uk | Meike Leonard
Health officials have warned that a highly contagious virus will inevitably return to the UK if the government does not act quickly to stop it. Foot-and-mouth disease, an infectious virus that causes blisters to form inside the mouths and under the hooves of animals, was eradicated from the UK in 2007. The painful condition can cause lameness and problems feeding in animals.
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msn.com | Meike Leonard
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Meike Leonard
Thousands of insomnia sufferers may be missing out on a groundbreaking treatment – simply because doctors don't know it exists, experts warn. Daridorexant was approved for use on the NHS in 2023 after trials showed it causes fewer side-effects and is less addictive than traditional sleeping pills.
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dailymail.co.uk | Meike Leonard
Taking vitamin B could help to fight glaucoma, study findsBy MEIKE LEONARD Published: 17:45 EDT, 17 May 2025 | Updated: 17:45 EDT, 17 May 2025 A common vitamin supplement could slow down the progression of the degenerative eye disease glaucoma, a study has found. Vitamin B, found in whole grains, dark leafy greens, such as kale and broccoli, eggs, fish and dairy, appears to diminish the damage caused by the condition.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Meike Leonard
One in four women suffering from eczema say that their symptoms were triggered by the menopause, a survey shows. The condition, which causes dry, itchy and irritated skin, affects 1.5 million people in the UK. Most are born with it or first have symptoms as children, which tend to improve as they get older. One in ten have flare-ups in adulthood, set off by changes in temperature, skin infections, stress or contact with allergens.
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4 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Meike Leonard
Plans to let male health workers perform breast screening exams has provoked a furious backlash – with some women experts saying the move could put lives at risk. Last week, medical leaders called for men to be allowed to work as mammographers in the NHS breast cancer screening programme, in a bid to ease 'critical' staff shortages. The X-ray scans are offered every three years to all British women aged 50 to 71, with the aim of detecting tumours too small to see or feel.
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4 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Meike Leonard
It was only when avid gym-goer Albita started gaining stubborn weight around her middle that she finally decided to visit her doctor. The 33-year-old had first noticed blood in her stool in 2019, but put it down to what she suspected was irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and her party-hard lifestyle. It wasn't until four years later that the pharmacy tech worker finally saw a specialist for her symptoms—and was told she had a large and incurable tumour in her colon.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Meike Leonard
It was an announcement that reverberated around the world. Last month, American scientists revealed a startling theory behind a medical mystery that has baffled doctors and alarmed the public – the surge in bowel cancer among young people. Long thought of as a disease of old age, colorectal cancer is increasingly striking adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s, and the culprit, researchers suggest, might be something as mundane as a common food poisoning bug.
