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UK’s grey squirrels could be given contraceptive pills in Government-backed plan to save £37million

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Amorous grey squirrels face contraceptive crackdown: Rodents could be fed fertility-lowering pills covered in hazelnut paste to keep population numbers down Grey squirrels could take contraceptive pill under population control measures Drawn up in new plan backed by the Environment Secretary George Eustice  Report states grey squirrels cost the economy around £37million every year  By … Read more

UK’s grey squirrels could be given contraceptive pills in Government-backed plan to save £37million

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Amorous grey squirrels face contraceptive crackdown: Rodents could be fed fertility-lowering pills covered in hazelnut paste to keep population numbers down Grey squirrels could take contraceptive pill under population control measures Drawn up in new plan backed by the Environment Secretary George Eustice  Report states grey squirrels cost the economy around £37million every year  By … Read more

New warning over powerful painkillers: GPs told not to prescribe pills for chronic aches

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New warning over powerful painkillers: GPs are told not to prescribe pills for chronic aches with no known cause… and recommend exercise instead, latest guidelines say Experts say drug treatments don’t provide a balance between benefits and risks Research shows ‘little or no evidence’ painkillers make difference to life quality New health guidelines say sufferers … Read more

AstraZeneca: Women more likely to develop blood clots from taking contraceptive pills than vaccine

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Women are significantly more likely to develop blood clots from taking the contraceptive pill than by having the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, doctors have pointed out.    Fourteen countries in Europe – including France, Germany, Italy and Spain – suspended use of the Oxford jab this week over unproven fears it increases the risk of thrombosis or pulmonary … Read more

DR ELLIE CANNON: Is it blood pressure pills that give me a fainting feeling? 

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I often feel very faint. Could it be a side effect of the blood pressure medication I take? The short answer is, yes. The most commonly prescribed medications for blood pressure are angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, calcium channel blockers and diuretics.  Familiar names will be ramipril, amlodipine and indapamide, and dizziness is a common side … Read more

England international and Premier League star ‘hooked on sleeping pills’

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England international and Premier League star ‘hooked on sleeping pills and mixes them with vodka at illegal lockdown parties… as friends fear he’ll ruin his career if he doesn’t get help’ An unnamed Premier League player is reportedly addicted to sleeping pills Footballers have previously been warned of the potentially fatal dangers of taking prescription … Read more

Diego Maradona investigation hears carers crushed sleeping pills into his beer

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Diego Maradona’s carer crushed sleeping pills into his beer so he wasn’t a nuisance at night and he was given alcohol on-demand at 9am in the months before he died, investigators in Argentina are told Ongoing prosecution probe into Diego Maradona’s death has heard about his battles with alcohol during the final months of his … Read more

The truth about sleeping pills 

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Do they work? How long should you take them for? Can they cause addiction? Jo Macfarlane asks the experts everything you need to know…   Hours of tossing and turning. Lying awake, night after night. Insomnia is a killer – literally. It has been linked to high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attacks and strokes. Yet one … Read more

Mother-of-one teaching assistant accidentally killed herself with anxiety pills, inquest hears 

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Alexandria Pierce-Baddeley, 29, who leaves behind a nine-year-old daughter, was suffering from a nasty mouth abscess in the days before her death A teaching assistant accidentally killed herself from an overdose of anxiety pills and wine after refusing to go to the dentist for fear of catching Covid, an inquest heard. Alexandria Pierce-Baddeley, 29, who … Read more

DR ADBUL-GHAALIQ LALKHEN: More pills and surgery are not the answer for chronic pain

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Patients with chronic pain are like people who arrive by train at a frontier town in the old Wild West. They are often confused, wary, weary and desperate, like survivors of an apocalypse or entrepreneurs who’ve lost fortunes and optimism at the different stations on their journey to cure and understand their chronic pain, having … Read more