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• Rise in number of unpaid carers and young carers
  Fri, 17 May 2013 11:01:00 GMT

  "Children are picking up the caring roles the state has abandoned," The Guardian says, while The Independent says that 180,000 children work as unpaid carers.These new figures come from the Office for National…

• Time-lapse technique may boost success rate of IVF
  Fri, 17 May 2013 10:15:00 GMT

  “IVF advance triples couples' chances of having a baby”, The Daily Telegraph reports. The innovation in question is actually based on an old imaging technique called time-lapse photography, where a camera is set…

• Absent fathers linked to depression risk in girls
  Thu, 16 May 2013 10:59:00 GMT

  “Study shows girls with absent fathers more likely to develop depression," the Mail Online has revealed. It reports on a large UK study that found that girls whose biological fathers were absent during…

• Human embryo stem cells cloning breakthrough
  Thu, 16 May 2013 10:06:00 GMT

  "Human embryonic stem cells created from adult tissue for first time," The Guardian reports, while the Daily Mail's front page leads with the somewhat fanciful warning that new research raises the "spectre of…

• Drug combination offers hope for osteoporosis
  Wed, 15 May 2013 15:55:00 GMT

  “Double drug hope for brittle bone sufferers”, reports the Daily Mail.This headline follows a small but well-designed trial of treatments for postmenopausal osteoporosis. As women go through the menopause, levels of the hormone…

• 'Broken' body clock may be linked to depression
  Wed, 15 May 2013 12:16:00 GMT

  "Depressed people are out of sync with the rest of the world because their body clocks are broken," reports the Mail Online website, while The Independent claims that depressed people live in a…

• Is the rise in neurological deaths due to modern life?
  Tue, 14 May 2013 15:48:00 GMT

  'Technology, food additives and air pollution are causing people to develop dementia earlier than ever,' reports the Mail Online website. But this is a claim with little to no evidence to support it.The…

• Angelina Jolie's surgery to 'reduce breast cancer risk'
  Tue, 14 May 2013 14:10:00 GMT

  Writing in the New York Times, actress Angelina Jolie has announced that she has recently undergone a double mastectomy (where both breasts are surgically removed) followed by breast reconstruction surgery.She writes that this…

• Could a good mood make you eat more food?
  Tue, 14 May 2013 10:10:00 GMT

  ‘Research has found emotional eaters tend to eat more when happy’, reports the Mail Online website.The news is based on a small study looking at whether experimentally altering mood has an effect on…

• Novel coronavirus 'limited' spread between people
  Mon, 13 May 2013 10:52:00 GMT

  "WHO warns that a deadly novel coronavirus could be passed from person to person," The Independent reports. The news – featured in much of the media – is based on the latest ‘state…