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UK Parliament Votes For Assisted Dying Paving Way For Historic Law Change
Britain's parliament voted on Friday in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying, paving the way for the country's biggest social change in a generation.
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UK May Soon Bring 'Assisted Dying' Law. Lawmaker Explains Its Safeguards
A proposed law allowing terminally ill adults in England and Wales to end their lives was published on Tuesday, setting out safeguards such as ensuring the approval of doctors and judges to try to ease concerns in Britain over its possible misuse.
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New Rights For UK Donor Babies As They Turn 18
Around 30 young adults conceived via sperm or egg donation in the UK will soon be able to discover the identity of their biological parent.
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90% Of UK People Hospitalised Didn't Take Booster
Boris Johnson's government said every adult in England has had the chance to receive a Covid-19 vaccine booster, the critical part of its strategy for tackling the fast-spreading omicron variant.
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UK Extends Covid Vaccine Booster Programme To All Adults
All adults in Britain will now be able to get a third Covid jab, a government scientific advisory body said Monday, as concern mounted about the spread of the new Omicron variant.
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Britain Hits Milestone As Half Of All Adults Get First Covid Vaccine Dose
Half of all adults in Britain have now had at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, making the country the world's first major economy to hit that milestone, health minister Matt Hancock said on Saturday.
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Britain To Offer All Adults A COVID-19 Vaccine By End Of July: Boris Johnson
All adults in Britain will be offered a first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday ahead of a planned announcement on the cautious reopening of the economy from lockdown.
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Facebook Faces New UK Class Action After Data Harvesting Scandal
A second London High Court class action has been filed against Facebook over a data harvesting scandal. The social media giant was fined in Britain in 2018 over how third-party app ‘This Is Your Digital Life’ gathered Facebook users' data without consent between 2013 and 2015.
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39 Found Dead In Truck Near London Were Chinese Nationals
British police said on Thursday that 39 people found dead in a truck near London were all believed to be Chinese nationals, as officers conduct the country's largest murder probe in more than a decade.
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London HIV Patient World's Second To Be Cleared Of AIDS Virus: Doctors
An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor, his doctors said.
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52-Year-Old Homeless Man Gets Admission In Cambridge University
A 52-year-old man who spent most of his adult life sleeping rough and selling copies of a magazine to help the homeless has enrolled at Britain's illustrious Cambridge University.
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Screening Infants Could Prevent Early Heart Attacks: Study
Screening young children for high cholesterol at the same time as they receive routine vaccinations could prevent hundreds of heart attacks in young adults each year, researchers in Britain said Wednesday.
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Ban Or No Ban, India Watching More Porn Than Ever: Survey
The verdict is out. Ban or no ban, India is watching more porn than ever. In 2015, India knocked out Canada to grab the third position - after the US and Britain - in visiting one of the world's largest adult websites Pornhub.
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Gluten-Free: Health Fad or Life-Saving Diet?
Up to a third of American adults are now avoiding gluten, and numbers in Britain are growing rapidly: gluten-free sales are soaring. But is it really our dietary enemy - or, as Jennifer Lawrence thinks, just the 'new cool eating disorder'?
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How Britain Developed its Sweet Tooth
The average UK adult consumes 30kg of sugar a year, not just in sweets and soft drinks but in foods such as bread and yoghurt.The mid-morning snack trolley is being loaded up at the Royal Free hospital in north London. There are a few newspapers on the...
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UK Parliament Votes For Assisted Dying Paving Way For Historic Law Change
Britain's parliament voted on Friday in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying, paving the way for the country's biggest social change in a generation.
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UK May Soon Bring 'Assisted Dying' Law. Lawmaker Explains Its Safeguards
A proposed law allowing terminally ill adults in England and Wales to end their lives was published on Tuesday, setting out safeguards such as ensuring the approval of doctors and judges to try to ease concerns in Britain over its possible misuse.
-
New Rights For UK Donor Babies As They Turn 18
Around 30 young adults conceived via sperm or egg donation in the UK will soon be able to discover the identity of their biological parent.
-
90% Of UK People Hospitalised Didn't Take Booster
Boris Johnson's government said every adult in England has had the chance to receive a Covid-19 vaccine booster, the critical part of its strategy for tackling the fast-spreading omicron variant.
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UK Extends Covid Vaccine Booster Programme To All Adults
All adults in Britain will now be able to get a third Covid jab, a government scientific advisory body said Monday, as concern mounted about the spread of the new Omicron variant.
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Britain Hits Milestone As Half Of All Adults Get First Covid Vaccine Dose
Half of all adults in Britain have now had at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, making the country the world's first major economy to hit that milestone, health minister Matt Hancock said on Saturday.
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Britain To Offer All Adults A COVID-19 Vaccine By End Of July: Boris Johnson
All adults in Britain will be offered a first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday ahead of a planned announcement on the cautious reopening of the economy from lockdown.
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Facebook Faces New UK Class Action After Data Harvesting Scandal
A second London High Court class action has been filed against Facebook over a data harvesting scandal. The social media giant was fined in Britain in 2018 over how third-party app ‘This Is Your Digital Life’ gathered Facebook users' data without consent between 2013 and 2015.
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39 Found Dead In Truck Near London Were Chinese Nationals
British police said on Thursday that 39 people found dead in a truck near London were all believed to be Chinese nationals, as officers conduct the country's largest murder probe in more than a decade.
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London HIV Patient World's Second To Be Cleared Of AIDS Virus: Doctors
An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor, his doctors said.
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52-Year-Old Homeless Man Gets Admission In Cambridge University
A 52-year-old man who spent most of his adult life sleeping rough and selling copies of a magazine to help the homeless has enrolled at Britain's illustrious Cambridge University.
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Screening Infants Could Prevent Early Heart Attacks: Study
Screening young children for high cholesterol at the same time as they receive routine vaccinations could prevent hundreds of heart attacks in young adults each year, researchers in Britain said Wednesday.
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Ban Or No Ban, India Watching More Porn Than Ever: Survey
The verdict is out. Ban or no ban, India is watching more porn than ever. In 2015, India knocked out Canada to grab the third position - after the US and Britain - in visiting one of the world's largest adult websites Pornhub.
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Gluten-Free: Health Fad or Life-Saving Diet?
Up to a third of American adults are now avoiding gluten, and numbers in Britain are growing rapidly: gluten-free sales are soaring. But is it really our dietary enemy - or, as Jennifer Lawrence thinks, just the 'new cool eating disorder'?
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How Britain Developed its Sweet Tooth
The average UK adult consumes 30kg of sugar a year, not just in sweets and soft drinks but in foods such as bread and yoghurt.The mid-morning snack trolley is being loaded up at the Royal Free hospital in north London. There are a few newspapers on the...
