Even a small amount of cannabis can alter brain structure in children, research suggests. Scientists found that taking the drug just once or twice by the age of 14 led
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Over-70s gain no benefit from taking higher dose vitamin D supplements to improve bone strength and reduce the risk of falls, a long term study has found. Older people have
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Detectives in West Yorkshire have arrested 55 men as part of an investigation into historical allegations of child sex abuse. Police said the men were arrested after seven women made
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Fresh pressure to scrap the two-child benefit cap entirely has been rejected by the Government. Work and pensions minister Alok Sharma told the Commons the Conservatives believe the overall policy
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A judge has told doctors they can stop providing life-support treatment to a brain-damaged woman who had worked as a carer for disabled people. Mrs Justice Gwynneth Knowles heard that
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Council social services bosses have failed to prove that a woman deliberately breached a judge’s order restricting her contact with her teenage son. Lawyers representing Westminster City Council complained that
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Campaigners will present a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to Prime Minister Theresa May calling for an end to the “postcode lottery” of NHS fertility treatment. The Fertility Network
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An esteemed cancer expert has died suddenly after getting a yellow fever jab. Professor Martin Gore, 67, who was described as an “inspiration” by the Duke of Cambridge, died on
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Amber Rudd has announced a set of reforms to the Government’s new Universal Credit, saying that the system she inherited was not as “effective” or “compassionate” as she wanted. The
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Four working single mothers have won a High Court challenge over the Government’s controversial Universal Credit welfare scheme. Two judges in London announced on Friday that the women – who
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