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How early intervention helps muscle and joint pain patients back to work

Millions of people suffer from pain in their joints and muscles during their working lives, and sometimes that pain can become unbearable. Esperanza

United Kingdom

'Ebola nurse' Pauline Cafferkey critically ill

Pauline Cafferkey was readmitted to an specialist isolation unit at London's Royal Free Hospital last week.

Sport

Injured Ireland skipper O'Connell retires from international rugby

Paul O’Connell’s international rugby career came to a premature end this week. The Ireland captain tore his hamstring during Sunday’s World Cup

China

Early death for smokers in China says new report

In China a third of all men currently under the age of 20 will die prematurely if they do not give up smoking. The warning comes on the back of new

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World News

Ebola: is the epidemic over?

It has now been a week since any new cases of Ebola were declared in the three West African countries at the centre of a recent epidemic. The World

Afghanistan

Obama apologises for ' tragic mistake' in Kunduz

US President Barack Obama has apologised to the head of Medecins San Frontieres for the deadly airstrike on one of the aid agency’s hospital’s in

World News

Toddler's head reattached to spine after car crash

Surgeons in the Australia city of Brisbane have managed to reattach a toddler’s head to his spine after it was severed in a high-speed car accident

World News

Slaves to our smartphones? New study details digital amnesia

Over reliance on smartphones and tablets is eroding our ability to remember, that’s the conclusion of a new study into digital amnesia. As more and

Brazil

Brazilian Christ turns pink

Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue is being lit in bright pink throughout October to raise awareness for breast cancer. The event is the

USA

California legalises assisted suicide

Physician-assisted suicide will become legal in California under a bill signed into law on Monday by Democrat Governor Jerry Brown. The law allows

Afghanistan

Calm in Kunduz following air strike, but MSF demands answers

Kunduz has seen a return to calmer times after an air strike on a hospital in the northern Afghan city killed at least 22 people. Reports suggest the

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Smart ambulances: the hi-tech future of accident and emergency healthcare

Every year all over Europe ambulances come to the aid of millions of people. A study suggests almost half of the cases could be treated on the spot

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Do you know: what's the ambulance of the future?

France

Paris in move to fine smokers for throwing away their butts

If you stub it out, don’t throw it away. That’s the message to smokers in Paris as the French capital starts a clean up campaign of cigarette butts

Switzerland

WHO: All people with HIV should get anti-retroviral drugs

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Liquid assets: how to test recycled water on the cheap

In an increasingly drought-hit world recycling water is hugely important. A European research project is helping the cause

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Do you know: how does soil clean water?

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Germany

Tripping victims at homeopathy conference may have been sect members

German and Swiss media are reporting that the 29 people who fell ill with hallucinations and cramps at a Homeopathy conference in Germany at the

USA

CEO attacked for demanding excessive price for HIV drugs Daraprim

Martin Shkreli is stirring a storm in the United States, over drug-pricing. Turing, the small pharmaceuticals company of which he is CEO, has