Midwives, obstetricians and gynaecologists should receive mandatory training about female genital mutilation (FGM), according to new guidelines on treating pregnant women who have undergone the procedure. The Royal College of
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Chemicals in tobacco may help trigger serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, a study suggests. New research shows that smoking can triple the chances of developing psychosis. Previously the fact
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Vulnerable children should be allowed to stay in care until they are 25, the children’s commissioner for England has said. Nearly a third of young people who had to leave
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George Osborne has used the first Tory-only Budget for nearly 20 years to introduce a “living wage”, dramatically declaring that “Britain deserves a pay rise”. Hailing a new “higher wage,
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A family whose severely disabled son’s Disability Living Allowance state benefit was taken away while he was in hospital have won a landmark battle against the Government at the UK’s
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A four-year freeze for working-age benefits and restricting tax credits to two children are among key parts of a blueprint to slash at least another £12 billion-plus a year from
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Rape victims will be forced to justify themselves to the taxman to secure child tax credits under the Government’s reforms, MPs have heard. The SNP’s Roger Mullin questioned the morality
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A gene therapy cure for inherited deafness has been successfully tested and could be offered to patients in under five years. Researchers restored the hearing of deaf mice by injecting
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A new study finds the numbers of young people being accommodated by local authorities or homeless services across the UK to be over three times higher than those recorded by
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Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have been awarded a £2 million grant from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) for a five-year research programme into medicines
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