Major supermarket Sainsbury’s has just announced it will be making a big change to stores. This move will help customers save money in the long run and also work towards combatting food waste. Sainsbury’s has already removed the best before dates from over 1,500 lines including bananas, apples, pineapples, pumpkins […]
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Hospital chiefs blasted by Health Secretary over ‘unacceptable’ ambulance handover delays Health Secretary Steve Barclay summoned NHS trusts over ambulance delays He met with chief executives from the six worst-performing trusts on Tuesday Mr Barclay said examples of 40-hour ambulance waits were ‘unacceptable’ Three of the six trusts summoned to […]
BEIJING — China has placed millions of its citizens under renewed lockdown following fresh outbreaks of COVID-19, authorities reported Tuesday, as the government persists in its hard-line policy on containing the virus. The measures affected about half of the 6 million residents of the port city of Dalian, along with […]
Lorraine Kelly admitted she, like many others, put on weight during the coronavirus pandemic. But now, the TV presenter is on a mission to hit her “ideal weight” and has joined WW, formerly Weight Watchers to do so. Over the past few months, she has lost 1.5 stone, and her […]
End of the family doctor? Patients are hit as 474 GPs’ surgeries close their doors in a decade Almost 1.5million have been forced to travel further afield to seek treatment Research also shows traditional family doctor-patient relationship is being lost Doctors’ magazine Pulse found 474 surgeries have closed in the […]
LONDON — The World Health Organization’s top director in the Western Pacific, Dr. Takeshi Kasai, has been indefinitely removed from his post, according to internal correspondence obtained by The Associated Press. Kasai’s removal comes months after an AP investigation revealed that dozens of staffers accused him of racist, abusive and […]
Nearly all pregnant women are exposed to chemicals from plastics, cleaning products, clothing and other household items that scientists say may put them at a higher risk of cancer and harm their baby’s development. University of California, San Francisco researchers tested urine samples from 171 women and found almost all […]
Since being diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia [a fast heartbeat], my resting pulse is 100-110 beats per minute. Does this rapid heartbeat mean my heart will wear out faster? Marion Webley, Thornbury, Bristol. The sudden onset of a rapid, abnormal heart rhythm called supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is alarming although relatively common […]