uk-hotdailynews: 2015-04-30 U.K. Health

Men 'catching up' on life expectancy
BBC News
Men are narrowing the gap on women when it comes to life expectancy in England and Wales, research in the Lancet indicates. It predicts by 2030 men will be living 85.7 years on average - just two fewer than women. In 1981 men lagged behind women by ...

Average Life Expectancy To Top 86 By 2030   Sky News
Britons to live up to four years longer than official estimates by 2030   Telegraph.co.uk
Britain faces a life expectancy timebomb as average man to live to 85 in 2030   Daily Mail
Belfast Telegraph
The Guardian
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Daily Mail

New drug helps achieve almost complete prostate cancer remission in mice
Daily Mail
A pensioner undergoing an MRI scan. Each year in the UK around 41,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and 11,000 die from the disease. The problem is partly caused by immune system 'B-cells' that put a brake on the body's defences in prostate ...

Combined Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Shows Promise for Advanced ...   HealthCanal.com
New cancer therapy 'raises hope'   Herald Scotland
Prostate cancer could be 'wiped out' by new treatment   Telegraph.co.uk
Science Times
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Babies' lives saved by 3-D printing
Science Codex
Kaiba was just a newborn when he turned blue because his little lungs weren't getting the oxygen they needed. Garrett spent the first year of his life in hospital beds tethered to a ventilator, being fed through his veins because his body was too sick to absorb ...

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BBC News

Election 2015: A party with a prescription for the NHS?
BBC News
The future of the NHS has been one of the major topics of the election. The Tories, Labour and the Lib Dems have all been promising more money and better services. But according to one party, which should in theory be best qualified to talk about the health ...

BMJ warning over future of the NHS   Swindon Advertiser

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Channel News Asia

Dig at Waterloo to shed new light on the famous battle
Herald Scotland
IT was where Napoleon met the defeat which was to mark his fall from Emperor of the French, back to a life of exile. IT was where Napoleon met the defeat which was to mark his fall from Emperor of the French, back to a life of exile. Sorry, you must sign in ...

Scottish archaeologists primed for Waterloo dig   Scotsman (blog)
Scots expert leads dig for mass graves at Waterloo   The National
British soldiers dig to unearth history of Waterloo   Reuters
ITV News
Telegraph.co.uk
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The Sun (subscription)

Shy boy receives cards from around the world after appeal by his mum
The Sun (subscription)
Molly Povey, 42, told on Facebook how her son Roman, who turned 11 yesterday, cried himself to sleep at night. He suffers from delayed speech and had received only one party invite in seven years at school. Her post went viral and soon more than 200 ...

No-mates lad, 11, gets a global birthday party, including a card from NASA   Daily Star
Emotional scene as birthday cards pour in from around the world for boy 'with no ...   Express.co.uk
Molly-Mole Povey's son Roman gets hundreds of birthday cards from ...   Daily Mail
The Independent
mirror.co.uk
BBC News
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mirror.co.uk

Tories allowed up to 4000 early deaths by 'derailing' junk food curbs, says major ...
mirror.co.uk
The Tories allowed up to 4,000 extra early deaths by 'derailing' a scheme to put less salt in food, a major report has claimed. Experts have savaged ex-Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley for dropping Labour's salt reduction plan - which it's claimed could ...

Salt step back 'due to government'   Daily Mail
Coalition 'derailed programme to save lives by reducing salt in food'   The Guardian

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