GPs will be paid a bonus of £11.50 for every obese patient they refer for diet plans and fitness trackers as part of NHS anti-obesity drive Doctors are encouraged to identify obese patients and refer them to a scheme NHS Digital Weight Management Service will prescribe diets and exercise Scheme […]
Daily Archives: June 20, 2021
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Transgender veterans will be offered gender confirmation surgery paid for by the US Department of Veterans’ Affairs, its secretary announced Saturday. Denis McDonough told an event in Orlando to celebrate Pride Month that the move was ‘the right thing to do’. He spoke a week after the fifth anniversary of the […]
Property asking prices rose 0.8 per cent in May in an early sign that the housing market boom is slowing down. The average asking price increased £2,509 between 9 May and 12 June, according to Rightmove’s latest Index. It reached £336,073, hitting a new record high for the third consecutive […]
Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan has claimed victory in a snap parliamentary election he called in an effort to defuse a political crisis after last year’s disastrous war with Azerbaijan. But the electoral alliance of his top rival, former president Robert Kocharyan, swiftly contested the vote results and alleged election […]
Apple TV+ is now the home of all-things-“Peanuts” — so it’s the logical place home for a new documentary about Charles Schulz, who created the iconic comic-strip franchise. “Who Are You, Charlie Brown?” premieres Friday (June 25) on the streamer and clocks in at under an hour, short by today’s […]
The US borders with Mexico and Canada will remain closed to all non-essential travel for at least another month to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The extension of the restrictions, which have been in place since March 2020, was announced by the Department of Homeland Security on Twitter. “To […]
On the ‘KUWTK’ reunion, Khloe Kardashian revealed why she took Tristan Thompson back after cheating. Plus, she and Kylie Jenner talked about the drama with Jordyn Woods. For the first time, Khloe Kardashian flat-out admitted that she’s back together with Tristan Thompson during the Keeping Up With the Kardashians reunion, which […]
With Resident Evil back on track, Shinji Mikami returning to the world of survival horror he helped create, and surprise indie hits like Outlast, the current console generation has been a treat for fans of the dark and dreary. Here are the 25 scariest games of this generation (November 2013-present).