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Not learnt your lesson, Dragons’ Den? Couple promotes ‘libido-boosting’ supplements that lack scientific-backing, could just create a ‘placebo effect’ and used personal preference as research – (but at least the BBC’s added a health disclaimer this time!)

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It faced fierce backlash over promoting an entrepreneur’s ‘snake oil’ ear seeds product she claimed could ‘cure’ ME earlier in the series.

Yet Dragons’ Den doesn’t appear to have learnt its lesson – after last night’s episode featured a British couple looking for a £50,000 investment for their ‘libido-boosting’ supplement business.

Wesley Pierce and his fiancée Lottie arrived in the Den eager to secure partnerships with either Steven Bartlett, Sara Davies, Touker Suleyman, Peter Jones or Deborah Meaden, and offered

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The FDA added an RSV vaccine to the list of approved pregnancy shots. Here’s what to know

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Doctors across the United States will likely soon have two options to protect the youngest humans from RSV.

On August 22, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first RSV vaccine for pregnant people. By vaccinating individuals before they give birth — between 32 and 36 weeks of pregnancy — immune defenses sparked by the vaccine are transferred to newborns for protection during their first months of life (SN: 4/27/23).

RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, causes respiratory

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Putin critic Alexei Navalny has 19 years added to jail term – EURACTIV.com

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Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny had an extra 19 years added to his jail term on Friday (4 August) in a criminal case that he and his supporters said was trumped up to keep him behind bars and out of politics for even longer.

Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest domestic critics, is already serving sentences totalling 11.5 years on fraud and other charges that he says are also bogus. His political movement has been outlawed and declared

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Interest rate hike branded ‘absolute lunacy’ as homeowners face ‘added misery’ | Personal Finance | Finance

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A critic has hit out at the Bank of England for raising interest rates again today as inflation falls.

Samuel Mather-Holgate, from Mather & Murray Financial, said: “Increasing rates, knowing the last rises haven’t been felt yet, and whilst inflation is falling, is absolute lunacy.

“Only one member of the Monetary Policy Committee wanted to maintain its previous level and they should be applauded.

“This further rise will add misery to homeowners and those with business finance. An already lifeless

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Despite acquittal, Durham trial of Sussmann added to evidence Clinton campaign plotted to tie Trump to Russia

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Key allegations that tied then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia and led to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller originated with individuals linked to Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign, with former officials now questioning why Mueller’s team of seasoned prosecutors didn’t report those connections as part of their years-long probe.

During the trial of Michael Sussmann — the first trial stemming from Special Counsel John Durham’s years-long

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Fashion designer revealed how she added £67,000 to the value of her doer-upper house

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A fashion designer who was made redundant during the pandemic, soon after buying a fixer-upper home, has revealed how she added £67,000 to the value of the outdated property in just one year – while retraining to be a teacher.

Tasmin Blaney, 29, and her partner Phil Bolger, 30, originally from Manchester, purchased their first three-bed home in Warrington for £173,000 in September 2020.

But just as the couple of eight years were ready to sign on the dotted line

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