The decorator, dry cleaner, IT support, dentist, plumber and other professionals on the things we keep getting wrong – and what to do instead.
The important thing many owners fail to do with their dog is encourage it to calm down. There is so much emphasis on playing and running. People think they have to play with their puppy because it wants to, but this encourages the dog to be constantly active. It then doesn’t settle well and its behaviour can quickly become problematic. Spending time teaching dogs to walk calmly on a lead and rest at home should be a priority. To learn how, go to a class or follow online advice.
Ben Marsh of Balanced Dog.
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Boar's Head Provisions will no longer make liverwurst and is closing the Virginia facility at the center of a listeria outbreak that killed nine people and hospitalized at least 57 in 18 states, the producer of deli meats announced on Friday.
"We understand the gravity of this situation and the profound impact it has had on affected families. Comprehensive measures are being implemented to prevent such an incident from ever happening again," the company said in a statement posted on its website.
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Getty Images The first “citizens’ jury” on assisted dying in England has backed a change in the law to allow people who are terminally ill to end their life.
A jury of 28 people concluded it should be an option for those judged to have capacity to make their own decisions.
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Boasting hovering haloes and futuristic forests, Old Street roundabout was meant to be a shining beacon for Britain’s very own Tech City. Instead, we have
120 hefty bollards and paving built to deter rough sleepers.
Computer-generated PR images often outshine reality, but rarely has so much been promised and so little delivered as at Old Street roundabout in east London, finally complete after more than a decade in the works. It was supposed to be the radiant hub of the UK’s very own Tech City, the much-vaunted Silicon Roundabout around which a vibrant community of startups would orbit, fizzing with ideas.
In 2012, the then prime minister David Cameron pledged £50m to transform this undistinguished traffic intersection into “the largest civic space in Europe” – a shining beacon for our “aspiration nation”, where tech companies would rub shoulders with young innovators in a dynamic, multilevelled, interactive landscape. It was eagerly championed by his Bullingdon club chum and then mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who saw in it the chance for another novelty infrastructure project to add to his collection of costly follies. But their Nathan Barley fantasy never came to pass.
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Opioid overdose deaths have dropped to the lowest they have been in three years, new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest, in the wake of a record surge of fatalities from the class of drugs that includes heroin and fentanyl during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The CDC estimates that there were 75,091 opioid overdose deaths for the year ending in April 2024, according to provisional figures published this week by the agency.
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A ban on junk food adverts being shown on TV before 21:00 will come into force on 1 October 2025, the government has confirmed.
Labour said the watershed on junk food advertising would be enforced alongside a total ban on paid-for online adverts, both aimed at tackling childhood obesity.
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The company had stopped my annual renewal without telling me and I don’t know a reason.
For the past three years I have used Churchill to insure my BMW X5. The policy started in June 2021, I have paid by monthly direct debit ever since, and it was set up to auto-renew every year.
So imagine my concern when I received a letter last week from Surrey and Sussex police informing me that, according to the Motor Insurance Database, I did not appear to have valid insurance.
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A vote is expected next week to hold Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt of Congress after he refused to appear at a hearing this week despite being subpoenaed to testify. This follows a nearly two-year CBS News investigation into how private equity investors and de la Torre siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from Steward hospitals. Dr. Jon LaPook has more.
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Getty Images Across more than 150 pages, NHS surgeon and independent peer Lord Darzi sets out in clear, painstaking detail the failings of the NHS in England.
But that is the easy bit – fixing it is an altogether different challenge.
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Britain’s pandemic response was among the worst and the NHS had been ‘seriously weakened’, says leading surgeon.
Britain was hit far harder by the Covid-19 pandemic than other developed countries because the NHS had been “seriously weakened” by disastrous government policies over the preceding decade, a wide-ranging report will conclude this week.
An assessment of the NHS by the world-renowned surgeon Prof Ara Darzi, commissioned in July by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, will find that the health service reduced its “routine healthcare activity by a far greater percentage than other health systems” in many key areas during the Covid crisis.
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DEA continues countrywide fentanyl awareness summits with event in Alhambra
Fentanyl overdoses have become a leading cause of death for minors in the last five years or so, even as overall drug use has dropped slightly. In a 2022 analysis of fentanyl-laced prescription pills, the DEA found that six out of 10 contained a potentially lethal dose of the drug.
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If Zachary Bradford does not receive a small bowel and liver transplant within the next few weeks, the tiny two-year-old could die.
That is the reality his parents are living with as they do everything they can to maximise his chances of a donor for not his first transplant, but his second.
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Ultra-processed foods are everywhere – but a few small tweaks to your diet can minimise the damage they cause. Here’s how to go about it.
More than ever, we worry about the dangers of eating ultra-processed foods (UPFs). Is there a safe level of UPFs to have in your diet? And can an occasional bag of crisps ever be OK? Dietitians share the small swaps that will make big changes to your health.
1. Understand what processed foods actually are
“UPFs have undergone significant modification and processing from their original form,” says Charlie Watson, a Caversham-based NHS dietitian and author of the book Cook Eat Run. “They often contain a large number of ingredients, many of which you may not recognise, including stabilisers, preservatives, artificial colours and flavours.”
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FDA says lead-contaminated applesauce packets lacked proper testing A year after recalled applesauce pouches containing cinnamon left more than 500 kids with lead poisoning, new research is offering further cause for concern regarding the popular spice used in baked goods and frequently sprinkled on coffee and oatmeal.
Consumer Reports found troubling levels of lead in one-third of ground cinnamon and cinnamon-containing spice blends it tested, according to the findings released Thursday. The tests involved brands carried by mainstream grocery stores as well as those that sell international foods.
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Getty Images"Ballooning" NHS waiting times and delays getting vital treatment in A&E and cancer care is harming health and costing lives, according to a criticalgovernment-commissioned report.
People have "every right to be angry," Sir Keir Starmer will warn on Thursday, adding the health service must "reform or die".
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Ever feel like you’re lurching from crisis to crisis, or chore to chore? Here’s how to knock at least some of them on the head – and lay the foundations for a less stressful, more organised existence.
However distant our schooldays, the start of the academic year makes everyone want to turn over a new leaf, to work harder and smarter; to be better. None of us has the whole answer but everyone has a tiny thing that works for them, and this list is based on the hope that some of those tiny things might work for others too. I asked busy people, organised people, parents, experts and Guardian readers about the one thing they do that makes them feel marginally more on top of everything.
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A new report uncovered a disturbing racial disparity when it comes to C-sections, with doctors being more likely to perform them on Black mothers.
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Getty Images Five people are receiving emergency medical care in France for suspected botulism linked to eating pesto.
According to authorities in the Indre-et-Loire department in west-central France, a locally made brand of wild garlic sauce may have been contaminated with a dangerous toxin that can attack the nerves.
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Climbing centres across the UK report surge in interest since ‘the Terminator’ struck gold in Paris.
“He’s really good at climbing,” says eight-year-old Ivy Wilson, who has just scaled a wall at the Cambridge branch of Clip ’n Climb, the New Zealand-founded “theme-park meets climbing walls” experience that spawned a global phenomenon. “I like how he did it so fast.”
The man in question is Toby Roberts – the 19-year-old climbing wunderkind who struck gold for Team GB in the men’s boulder and lead event at this summer’s Olympics in Paris.
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Getty Images An NHS trust has revealed that about 11,000 people will have to be re-tested after a hospital machine issued incorrect diabetes results.
The Bedfordshire NHS Foundation Trust said some patients may have been wrongly given higher blood glucose readings from a laboratory at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital.
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Public diners as seen in 1940s Britain – offering nutritious meals at reasonable prices – should be everyday eating places, says MP-backed report.
In 1940s Britain, at a time before fast food and ready meals were staples of the British high street and in a country struggling to deal with the ramifications of war, a popular new restaurant chain was established.
It served high-quality meals at reasonable prices, attracted customers from the full spectrum of British society, and grew at a rate of 10 new sites a week at its most popular. The brains behind the operation? The British government, led by the prime minister, Winston Churchill.
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Apple's AirPods Pro 2 will soon come with a novel feature aimed at a generally more mature population: Americans who suffer from hearing loss.
The wireless earbuds, designed for listening to music on the go, now double as a medical device that doctors and hearing experts say could be a game changer. The devices address a number of problems that often deter Americans who could benefit from hearing assistance, namely stigma and cost, experts told CBS MoneyWatch.
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Glody Murhabazi Medical staff on the front line of the battle against mpox in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have told the BBC they are desperate for vaccines to arrive so they can stem the rate of new infections.
At a treatment centre in South Kivu province that the BBC visited in the epicentre of the outbreak, they say more patients are arriving every day - especially babies - and there is a shortage of essential equipment.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is testifying before Congress about his administration's handling of COVID in nursing homes.
Cuomo previously testified in a private hearing back on June 11.
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Getty Images A mother whose premature baby died after receiving contaminated feed at a hospital has told an inquest it was "the worst experience" a parent could have.
Ghanda Al-Kharboush's nine-day-old son, Yousef, died in June 2014 at London's St Thomas' Hospital after developing blood poisoning or sepsis.
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There's new hope for people with sickle cell disease which affects mainly African Americans. It's gene therapy research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that's being called a game changer.
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Gareth Williams A father has said his 24-year-old daughter’s suicide hit him like a "depth charge" which "shred things in ways that are difficult to describe".
One year on from Rhiannon’s death, Gareth Williams wants other parents to know how "seriously dangerous" poor mental health can be.
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For those who are pregnant, extreme heat isn't just uncomfortable. Studies show it can lead to serious complications for them and their unborn child, including pre-term births, miscarriages and stillbirths, and even increase the likelihood of one of the leading causes of death of pregnant women in the U.S. — homicide. Here's what to know.
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Catherine, Princess of Wales, has now completed a course of chemotherapy treatment and is focused on being cancer free and returning to work when she can.
In a video message released earlier on Monday afternoon, she says the past nine months have been "incredibly tough for us as a family".
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The United Nations' polio vaccination campaign continued this weekend in Gaza, even as Israel continued striking other parts of the strip. Elizabeth Palmer reports.
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The NHS was “creaking at the seams” when the pandemic hit – and this undermined the care given to both coronavirus patients and those needing treatment for other conditions, the Covid public inquiry has been told.
On the opening day of the third stage of the inquiry, which is looking at healthcare, lawyers said the health service entered the pandemic with too few staff and beds.
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More apple juice sold across the country is being recalled due to concerning levels of inorganic arsenic.
What began early last week as a recall of nearly 10,000 cases of Great Value brand apple juice sold by Walmart in 25 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, now involves 133,500 cases of multiple brands produced by Florida-based manufacturer Refresco Beverages, according to an expansion announced Friday by Walmart.
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A US military veteran who received the world's first whole-eye transplant has made significant progress a year later and has been able to resume his normal life, researchers say.
Aaron James, 46, also received a rare partial-face transplant. He lost most of his face in an accident in 2021 while working as a high-voltage utility lineman.
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Boar's Head faces at least seven lawsuits following the August recall of millions of pounds of its deli meat after the food company's products were linked to a deadly listeria outbreak.
The latest listeria outbreak has grown to 57 hospitalizations in 18 states linked to recalled products from Boar's Head plant in Jarratt, Virginia. At least nine deaths have been reported: two in South Carolina and one each in Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, New Mexico and New York.
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The Princess of Wales has spoken of her relief at completing her course of chemotherapy, in a highly personal video released by Kensington Palace.
Catherine revealed in March that she was undergoing cancer treatment and has been out of sight of the public for much of this year.
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Johannesburg — The Democratic Republic of Congo, at the epicenter of a global health emergency declared over a still-growing mpox outbreak, received a first delivery of 99,000 vaccines for the virus Thursday, with a second delivery of 101,000 expected Saturday, the head of the World Health Organization said.
Congolese health officials tell CBS News they hope to start getting the vaccines into the arms of frontline health workers and close contacts of confirmed cases by the beginning of October, with a quicker rollout likely impossible due to logistical challenges.
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Richard Knights/BBC The chairwoman of an inquiry into more than 2,000 mental health-related deaths has said "we may never know" the true number of people who died.
The Lampard Inquiry has got under way, examining deaths at NHS-run children and adult inpatient units in Essex between 2000 and 2023.
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As a new school year is set to begin, some areas are seeing lower levels of vaccinations, which could make kids more susceptible to diseases like measles and whooping cough. Thd CDC is stepping up efforts to help get kids vaccinated, including those from lower income family who may struggle to afford health care. Celine Gounder reports.
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BBC Covid patients have been admitted to hospital more than a million times in the UK since the virus first emerged in 2020, while countless others have had care for other conditions disrupted as the NHS struggled to cope.
On Monday, the public inquiry into the pandemic will start 10 weeks of hearings looking at the impact on patients, healthcare workers and the wider NHS.
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who signed a maternal health bill in her state last week, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that she doesn't "believe anything that Donald Trump says," including his recent support of IVF. "I don't think Donald Trump can spell IVF, let alone understand what it means, because his own Project 2025, remember, which establishes a fetal personhood, would undermine and take away IVF treatment," Healey added.
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An anti-corruption charity says it has identified significant concerns in contracts worth over £15.3bn awarded by the Conservative government during the Covid pandemic, equivalent to one in every £3 spent.
Transparency International UK found 135 “high-risk” contracts with at least three red flags - warning signs of a risk of corruption.
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There is a growing movement of social media influencers promoting raw or unpasteurized milk. It’s coincided with a recent spike in sales nationwide. However, health officials warn that drinking raw milk could have dangerous consequences.
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EPA Great Ormond Street Hospital says it is carrying out an urgent review of the cases of more than 700 patients after concerns were raised about one of its former surgeons.
The hospital said 22 children in 39 cases looked at so far had come to some degree of harm, and that it is taking the concerns “incredibly seriously”.
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Overnight, two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. Officials said the two were planning car bomb attacks. The incident comes as the Israeli military continues its operations in the territory for a fourth day. Meanwhile in Gaza, there is expected to be a pause in the fighting this weekend as the United Nations carries out urgent polio vaccinations.
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Getty Images The government’s plan to tackle the hospital backlog in England will fail without a fundamental reform in how services work, health leaders say.
Labour aims to increase the number of appointments and operations done each week by 40,000, to help hit the 18-week waiting time target.
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Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he supports having the government or insurance companies cover the costs of in vitro fertilization, or IVF, and criticized a six-week abortion ban in Florida, comments he walked back on Friday.
"Under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment," Trump said in an interview with NBC News. "Or we're going to be mandating that the insurance company pay."
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The NHS in England has been "broken" by successive Conservative-led governments - and the state it is now in is "unforgiveable", Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC.
In his first major interview in Downing Street, the prime minister said a review of the health service to be published on Thursday finds changes to the NHS were "hopelessly misconceived".
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California lawmakers have voted to ban food additives linked to behavioral issues in kids from school lunchrooms.
That means snacks like Flamin' Hot Cheetos, Twinkies and more will no longer be allowed in school cafeterias across the state. Stores may still sell the food products, though, under the first-of-its-kind legislation, called the California School Food Safety Act.
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Getty Images Scientists have studied more than 2,000 samples of poo from babies in the UK to get a clearer idea of which types of bacteria first colonise a newborn's gut.
Researchers say they were surprised to find baby poo fell into three distinct microbiological profiles, with different "pioneer bacteria" being abundant in each.
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