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Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email The resident doctors’ strike will plunge the NHS into disruption, healthcare leaders have warned, as the five-day walkout begins on Friday.Continue Reading
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Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email A top NHS medic has issued a stark warning to striking doctors that tomorrow’s five-day walkout will harm patients. Speaking theContinue Reading
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Lidiia/Shutterstock As plans for missions to Mars accelerate, so do questions about how the human body might cope. A return trip to the red planet would give more than enough time for someone to become pregnant and even give birth. But could a pregnancy be conceived and carried safely inContinue Reading
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