People who won’t wear face masks are more likely to be sociopaths, study claims

Callousness, deceitfulness and manipulativeness – signs of a sociopath – were traits commonly found among people who broke Covid-19 safety rules, according to a study of 1,600 Brazilians.
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Experts say US’s coronavirus positivity rate is high because tests are ‘too sensitive’

Up to 90 percent of people tested for COVID-19 in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada in July carried barely any traces of the virus, a new report says.
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Super-scan spots heart problems in women faster

Doctors often miss female cardiac issues because they do not show up like those suffered by men. But a new scan displays the unique differences in women’s hearts, particularly in older age.
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Now doctors could STRIKE over pay amid public sympathy for NHS workers

Doctors claim there is ‘anger’ over ‘years of pay restraint’ and are demanding that the British Medical Association (BMA) examine the option of industrial action.
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Patch up a torn shoulder with a COW’S Achilles

Louisa Maguire, 68, from Cheshire, one of the first British patients to benefit, who underwent the procedure in March, says she’s now ‘back playing golf’.
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Train conductor almost BLINDED by deer antler returns to work

Matthew Dzierzanowski, 50, from Wappingers Falls, New York, has had his sight restored after an accident in which his eye was pierced by a taxidermal deer antler in May 2019,
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NHS surgeons say productivity is 50% lower than before Covid-19

Professor Neil Mortensen, president of the The Royal College of Surgeons, revealed services were slow to pick up again due to Covid-19 safety measures.
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Experience: I thought I’d never meet my newborn son

Our baby was on the way when Thailand banned commercial surrogacy. Clinics were raided. Calls and emails went unanswered

My husband and I were on holiday in Greece when the email arrived to tell us we were having a baby. Our surrogate was pregnant after the first embryo transfer. This was the news Bill and I had dreamed of; it was our final attempt at parenthood, whatever the outcome. We had been trying to have a baby for nine years, and I had experienced five miscarriages. We were emotionally and physically drained.

A couple of weeks before the news came, we had flown from our home in Australia to Bangkok. My eggs were collected and Bill made his contribution. Later, an embryo was transferred into the Thai surrogate’s womb. I was 37 by then, and surrogacy was not a decision we had taken lightly. I had done a lot of research to find the right country with the right laws and an ethical clinic; surrogates there had completed their own families and were not financially pressured. Continue reading…
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‘Fear of failure’ giving UK children lowest happiness levels in Europe

More than a third of UK 15-year-olds scored low in the annual Good Childhood Report

Children in the UK have the lowest levels of life satisfaction across Europe, with “a particularly British fear of failure” partly to blame, according to a major report into childhood happiness.

More than a third of UK 15-year-olds scored low on life satisfaction, the annual Good Childhood Report from the Children’s Society found. They also fared badly across happiness measurements including satisfaction with schools, friends and sense of purpose compared to children in other European countries. Continue reading…
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Genetic quirk which could delay the onset of Alzheimer’s is twice as common in women

Researchers from the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) have found that about 13 per cent of women carry the gene, compared to 7 per cent of men.
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