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Newcastle United Foundation has painted benches in the city’s Leazes Park to highlight mental health and encourage fans to talk to each other. Defender Dan Burn spoke to BBC Sport about the work being done and how important it is to “check in”. If you have been affected by any of the issues in this…
Last minute offer may avert next weeks doctor strike
Next week’s strike by resident doctors in England may be averted after ministers offered the British Medical Association a fresh deal. The doctors’ union has agreed to put the offer to members over the coming days – if they support it, the five-day walkout starting on Wednesday 17 December could be called off. The offer…
Woman speaks of unbearable pain of living with endometriosis
Ami Clarke, 28, from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, began experiencing endometriosis symptoms at 13 but was not diagnosed until a decade later. A new report from Endometriosis UK revealed the average wait for a diagnosis for the condition was now nine years and four months. It also found that 39% of respondents had to visit their…
Prostate cancer screening: what you need to know
Getty Images The UK’s National Screening Committee has recommended that only a very small group of men at high risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease. There is currently no screening programme for prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men. But there has been some energetic campaigning for change by high-profile…
Tatiana Schlossberg essay raises awareness of acute myeloid leukemia
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former US President John F Kennedy, moved many Americans over the weekend with her emotional essay about being diagnosed with terminal cancer shortly after giving birth to her second child. In the New Yorker, the 35-year-old stunned readers, writing that she was battling acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer,…
