What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

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Taking antibiotics for more than six months increases your risk of colon cancer. The increased risk isn’t enormous—it’s around 17 percent, researchers estimate—but it does highlight the importance of regular screening when people are taking the drugs

New Idea

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In a recent Instagram post, Karl and Jasmine both uploaded photos of themselves wearing T-shirts designed by Camilla and Marc, which is donating sales to fund ovarian cancer research. “If this campaign means that we could help one woman detect this

Practical Boat Owner

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Past commodore of Topsham Sailing Club, Kate Brodie, is embarking on a plan to sail around the UK via the Shetlands to visit Marsali Taylor this summer while her husband travels by bike. Starting this April, 61-year-old Kate will sail Hullabaloo, her

The Australian Women's Weekly

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On May 9, Kylie Jones won’t be asking her 17-year-old twins to bring her breakfast in bed. Instead, the three-time breast cancer survivor and keen triathlete has requested Kieran and Tyler join her on the starting line for the Mother’s Day Classic Lo

Art Almanac

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Lou’s Place is a small terrace house situated on a leafy street in Sydney’s Kings Cross. For over twenty years, it has served as a community-based refuge for women in crisis: domestic violence, coercive control, homelessness, isolation or other sever

Angels on Earth magazine

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Labor Day marks the end of summer, so make the most of this last long weekend by including your own animal angel in the fun. Check out our ideas for spending quality time outdoors with your dog at angelsonearth.org/labordaydogs October is Breast Can

Manhattan Institute

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Rafael Mangual joins Seth Barron to discuss the surge in gun violence in New York City and other American cities, the impact of newly enacted criminal-justice reforms on policing, and the connection between “low-level” enforcement and major-crime pre

You South Africa

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3 500 mass shootings have taken place in the US since the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. 215 mass shootings occurred this year alone – 27 were school shootings. 45 000 people have died in shootings in America in 2020 as the gun murder rate increa

Her World Singapore

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If you are affected by breast cancer, or know someone who is, take heart. The Breast Cancer Foundation offers various support channels such as these. Whether you have questions about breast cancer or just need a listening ear, this programme lets you

Horse & Hound

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A 20-YEAR-OLD Fell stallion returned to the ring after a cancer diagnosis to capture his RIHS ticket in Pretty Polly ranks. Physics teacher Georgie Lewis-Roberts’ Waverhead Dazzler II (Possum) only returned to work in February after being diagnosed w

Los Angeles Times

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In 2016, 3,143 children and adolescents died of a gunshot wound in the United States, a new tally of childhood deaths finds. These children accounted for 15.4 percent of all those Americans between 1 and 19 who died in 2016, and a quarter of all thos

STAT

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The study’s duration and insights into prostate cancer make it "arguably one of the most important publications of the year."

that's life

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A game changer could be on the way in the fight against pancreatic cancer, with news that researchers have successfully grown a tumour model that can be used to test the effectiveness of various drug treatments over 12 days. The breakthrough was made

India Today

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NGOs are operating 24-hour helplines to provide phone and text support to victims of domestic violence. If you find it hard to find help in your city, call the National Commission for Women on their lock-down emergency number: 7217735372 In case you

Motorsport News

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Former FIA boss Max Mosley took his own life after discovering he had terminal cancer, a coroners’ court has concluded. Mosley, who led the FIA from 1993 through to 2009, was found dead at his home last year from a gunshot wound. He was 81 years old.

WellBeing Wild

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I wanted to express my deep gratitude to WILD and Isabelle Comber. I live in California and found your magazine while scrolling through my library’s online newsstand. I was intrigued from the beginning by the editor’s column, but it’s Isabelle Comber

WHO

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“The newest Texas abortion ban gives politicians, neighbours and even strangers the right to sue those who provide – or just help patients get – abortion after 6 weeks. The time to fight for our reproductive health and rights is now!” “We should al

Sunday Independent

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THE community of Prieska is divided on how to deal with a 39-year-old suspect accused of the raped and assault of a 60-year-old woman in the town. ■

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO _ Violence in Chicago over the weekend dropped sharply from a week before, but there were still 32 people shot in the city, six of them fatally, including a 16-year-old boy. The previous weekend, at least 63 people were shot and eight of them

HELLO Fashion Monthly

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Californians know a thing or two about athleisure. Meet the west coast’s latest export, Vuori. Loved by Kaia Gerber and Harry Styles, these are luxe basics built for comfort and high-intensity workouts. Snap up the buttery-soft, no-slip Studio Pocket

Pick Me Up

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Being married to a police officer comes with its challenges. While so proud of the brave work my husband Stephen, 30, did every day, I was a nervous wreck each time he left for a shift, praying nothing bad would happen to him. And with our one-yearol

Top Sante

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• That as a woman, you’re twice as likely to die from heart disease than breast cancer? • Women are 50 per cent more likely to be given a wrong initial diagnosis following a heart attack? • 8,200 women in England and Wales who died following a heart

that's life

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• Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer for women in Australia and New Zealand. • On average, 55 people in Australia and nine people in New Zealand are diagnosed with breast cancer every day. • A woman’s risk of developing breast canc

Finweek - English

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sixty-four years ago, 20 000 women marched on the Union Buildings to protest apartheid pass laws for women. On 9 August we will again commemorate that historic day in 1956 as we celebrate National Women’s Day during National Women’s month. I will cer

You South Africa

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60-70% The decrease in emergency room patients during levels 5 and 4 of lockdown. 3400 fewer alcohol-related trauma cases were expected in the first week of the new alcohol ban, according to the department of health. By the third week, there should

Chat Specials

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Around 268,000 people in the UK today are living with or beyond a diagnosis of bowel cancer, a disease that is often treatable if diagnosed early enough. This April during Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, the charity Bowel Cancer UK want to shine a li

Chat Specials

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James Read, 33, Woking Placing her leg across my lap, my fiancée Sarah looked at me. ‘Please?’ she begged, nudging me for a massage. ‘It’s been hurting all day.’ It was 2015, and Sarah, then 28, had been getting shooting pains in her left leg, whic

WHO

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In America, it is estimated that for every 1000 rapes, only six lead to a jail sentence. DNA evidence often goes untested as it costs $US1500 to examine. Insurance companies can refuse trauma counselling if a victim has been raped before. ■

Chat It's Fate

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We’ve had weapons for as long as we’ve been on the planet. From a simple knife to a deadly bomb, there are countless tools we can – and sadly, do – use to do harm to our fellow human beings. Different cultures use different weapons, and of course, th

Literary Hub

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a·pha·sia əˈfāZH(ē)ə,əˈfāzēə/ noun MEDICINE noun: aphasia loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage. Origin: mid 19th century: from Greek, from aphatos ‘speechless,’ from a- ‘not’ + phanai ‘speak.’ In the back corner of