uk-hotdailynews: 2015-08-13 U.K. Health

Music 'reduces pain and anxiety' for surgery patients
BBC News
Listening to music before, after and during an operation can help reduce pain, according to a review. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London said the patients who had listened to music had been less anxious after their surgery and had needed ...
Listening to music boosts recovery from surgery and reduces pain, research finds   ABC Online
Listening to music before and after surgery relieves pain and anxiety   Telegraph.co.uk
Music is beneficial to surgery patients, study finds   Irish Times
Financial Express
Sydney Morning Herald
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BBC News

Call for pub garden smoking ban
BBC News
The public smoking ban should be extended to beer gardens, al fresco eating areas of restaurants, parks, and outside school gates, a report says. The Royal Society for Public Health said smoking should be seen as "abnormal" and more controls are needed ...

Promote e-cigarettes over harmful tobacco smoking, say experts   The Guardian
Call for smoking ban OUTSIDE pubs, restaurants, parks and schools   Daily Mail
Vaping Association: FDA Rules Could Hurt Small Businesses   Associations Now
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malaysiandigest.com
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Times of India

Trans-fat ups risk of mortality by 34%
Times of India
A large new review of existing research suggests that for healthy people, a reasonable amount of saturated fat in the diet poses no health risk. Transfats, on the other hand, were associated with an increased risk of death from any cause, death from ...

Why butter is fine, but too much margarine could kill you   Irish Independent
Transfats the killer - study   Times LIVE
Study warns trans fats linked to 34 per cent increase in mortality   The Age
The Independent
Telegraph.co.uk
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The Australian

'Mind Change' claims substantiated: Greenfield
The Australian
British neuroscientist Susan Greenfield has hit back at criticism that she has misrepresented the internet's impact on teenagers' brains, saying there is ample evidence to back up her claims. Researchers from two top UK universities, including ...
Oxford academics at war over dangers of the internet   Telegraph.co.uk
Concern over claims about how technology affects young brains   Rochdale Online
Here's what science says about how digital technology REALLY affects our brains   Businessinsider India

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Daily Mail

Mthuthuzeli Mpongwana died after ambulance took 6 HOURS to arrive
Daily Mail
Sobbing into her husband's chest as he lies unresponsive by her side, a woman says a final goodbye to before making the heart-wrenching decision to turn off his life support machine. This harrowing photograph was shared by Lisa Armitage, 27, after she ...

Paramedic failings 'contributed to Bristol meningitis death'   shropshirestar.com

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Cycling Weekly

Teenager celebrates completing 18000-mile around the world ride
Cycling Weekly
19-year-old Tom Davies arrived in Battersea, South London on Sunday to the cheers of family and friends after completing and 18,000 mile bike ride around the world, in what he hopes makes him the youngest person to ever complete the journey. After 174 ...

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Daily Mail

Diabetes drugs bill eats up 10% of GPs' prescription budget
Daily Mail
GPs are now writing out more than 130,000 prescriptions for diabetes drugs every day as the obesity crisis intensifies. The number has almost doubled in a decade, with family doctors now spending a tenth of their total annual drugs bill on medications ...
Diabetes drugs 'account for 10% of annual prescribing bill'   Wear Valley Advertiser
Shock figures show 10 per cent of all medicine is now prescribed for diabetes   Express.co.uk

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