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New, long-acting drugs cut frequency of migraine headaches

Friday, 22 December 2017, 14:28 Last update: about 10 years ago

New, long-acting drugs may hold hope for millions of people who often suffer migraines. Studies of two of these medicines, given as shots every month or so, found they cut the frequency of the...

Boy with rare disease gets brand new skin with gene therapy

Thursday, 21 December 2017, 14:24 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body in a desperate attempt to save his...

AP Exclusive: Doctors clash over euthanasia for mentally ill

Tuesday, 19 December 2017, 14:24 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

After struggling with mental illness for years, Cornelia Geerts was so desperate to die that she asked her psychiatrist to kill her. Her sister worried that Geerts' judgment was compromised. The...

Change your life, not just your dress size in 2018

Monday, 18 December 2017, 16:14 Last update: about 10 years ago

Diana Kaldoja With Christmas just, a few short weeks away our minds are occupied with shopping, Christmas parties, plans for the big day, and of course all the delicious food and drink that comes...

FIRST: Those Christmas Lights

Monday, 18 December 2017, 12:01 Last update: about 10 years ago First Magazine

Black top (€95) and palazzo pants (€115) from 1-2-3 PARIS. Squadra blue necklace (€224) from PORTO.  Red dress with bow detail (€55) from MARKS & SPENCER. Chunky ring...

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