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Obese miss out under IVF shake-up
15th May 2013
Women in Scotland needing help to conceive are to be guaranteed two IVF treatments, but those who are obese will not get the treatment until they lose weight.
Charity highlights link between debt and mental health problems
15th May 2013
Society: Mental health | guardian.co.uk
Last year 5,000 people suffering from financial problems coupled with either anxiety or depression contacted StepChangeA charity has highlighted the extent to which debt affects mental health by revealing that last year it spoke to an average of 5,000 people a month who were suffering from financial problems coupled with either anxiety or depression.StepChange, a debt charity, said that it uses an online counselling tool to determine which people contacting it might be suffering from anxiety or depression. Of those who were, almost 60% were identified as suffering with severe anxiety or depression, a further 27% had moderate anxiety or ...
VIDEO: Archbishop's daughter on depression
15th May 2013
Katharine Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury's daughter, has spoken to the BBC about the depression she has suffered since her teens.
Children shun fictional 'fat Alfie'
15th May 2013
Young children reject storybook characters who are overweight, research reveals.
Clue to why women live longer
15th May 2013
Women live longer than men partly because their immune systems age more slowly, a study suggests.
VIDEO: A&E departments face crisis
15th May 2013
A&E; departments face their biggest crisis in more than a decade, and could collapse within six months.
QUB creates 'magic bullet' lung drug
15th May 2013
Researchers at Queen's University Belfast are devising a new drug which is being hailed as a potential "magic bullet" in the treatment of Acute Lung Injury (ALI).
India shows cheap diarrhoea vaccine
15th May 2013
Scientists in India unveil a new low-cost vaccine against a diarrhoea virus that kills about half a million children around the world each year.
Push to improve dementia diagnosis
15th May 2013
The NHS in England has been told to push for a rapid rise in dementia diagnosis rates.
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