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Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Getty Images More than 100 million people, including at least 15 million children, use e-cigarettes, fuelling a new wave of nicotine addiction, the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning. Children are, on average, nine times more likely than adults to vape, it says, based onContinue Reading

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Mum’s anti-chemo views influenced daughter’s death Sara Smith in Maidstone , Zac Sherratt South East and Marianna Spring Social Media Investigations Correspondent PA Media Paloma Shemirani, 23, died after refusing chemotherapy following a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma A high-profile conspiracy theorist influenced her daughter to reject chemotherapy in favour ofContinue Reading

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Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent and Adam Eley LinkedIn Karen Booth carried out operations she wasn’t skilled enough to perform, an NHS investigation found The head of NHS England backed a doctor whose failures contributed to several deaths to resume her career as a heart surgeon. Sir Jim Mackey toldContinue Reading

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Charlotte Wright Political Editor, South East PA Media Green Party leader Zack Polanski spoke to Charlotte Wright ahead of the party’s annual conference in Bournemouth The leader of the Green Party says he wants to legalise all drugs, calling for an approach “led by public health experts, not politicians”. SpeakingContinue Reading