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Alert over Facebook conspiracy theorists scaring women into quitting lifesaving osteoporosis drugs – as experts warn patients are risking death if they stop taking treatment

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Women are quitting vital drugs that treat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis because of ‘dangerous misinformation’ about their side effects being spread on Facebook, experts have warned.

Scaremongering posts seen by The Mail on Sunday falsely claim the drugs, known as bisphosphonates, are equivalent to ‘rust remover’. Others say the tablets actually worsen, rather than prevent, the disease.

Yet failing to take the medication means patients face serious, life-changing fractures, permanent disability and death, doctors say.

Osteoporosis mainly affects women –

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Why are so many women told they’re depressed or menopausal when it’s actually their thyroid? And why are others prescribed drugs for the condition when they don’t even need them?

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It can be a common cause of weight gain, fatigue, as well as unexplained aches and pains – and an underactive thyroid has been linked to serious illness, including an increased risk of dementia.

Yet, experts say, it can take years for the condition to be diagnosed – with patients, who are usually women, still not being listened to when they go to the doctor, their symptoms are blamed on depression or menopause instead.

At least one in 20 people

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How the new weight-loss drugs may work BETTER than Ozempic and other jabs. So will they really be free of the grim side-effects which mean so many give up within a year or two?

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Tempted to try Ozempic or Wegovy? These weight-loss wonder drugs are riding a tidal wave of popularity, helped no doubt by celebrity endorsements, with seemingly everyone from Sharon Osbourne to Elon Musk reportedly benefiting from the weekly jabs.

But both may soon seem old hat, with new drugs around the corner that promise greater weight loss, come in more convenient forms or actually burn off fat while we go about our daily business without even noticing the medications at work

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Raye’s tough to road to success: How school dropout, 26, couldn’t convince her first record label to release her songs and used drugs to cope after sexual abuse by A-list music producer – before winning historic SIX Brits

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She once described herself a ‘little girl from Croydon with a dream’ – and at last night’s Brit Awards, they all seemed to finally come true for Raye. 

The singer-songwriter, 26, from South London, made Brit Award history when she scooped six accolades in one night – beating records set by Blur, Harry Styles and Adele. 

Raye, whose full name is Rachel Agatha Keen, won Best New Artist, Songwriter of the Year, Song of the Year, Best R&B Act, Artist

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He seduced hundreds of women (as well as a few men) and had a child with his half sister amid a haze of drink and drugs. Now a racy new book reveals what turned Lord Byron into a sex addict…

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Their relationship was the talk of the town, both scandalising and thrilling 19th Century London. For months, the beautiful (and married) Lady Caroline Lamb and the celebrated Lord Byron had made no attempt to hide their passion for each other, flaunting their affair in the theatres, balls and drawing rooms where high society gathered.

When, after five months, Lady Caroline sensed that her lover was tiring of her, she decided on a daring strategy to try to reel him in

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Effects of psychedelic drugs can last for days or WEEKS, research shows – as experts say pilot who tried to bring down a plane days after taking ‘magic mushrooms’ should be a cautionary tale

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A pilot who had previous taken magic mushrooms who nearly cut the engines on a plane mid-flight should serve as a cautionary tale about wide access to psychedelics, experts warn.  

Joseph Emerson, an off-duty pilot riding on an Alaska Airlines flight had taken magic mushrooms 48 hours prior to taking off in Everett, Washington to San Francisco when he had a nervous breakdown, nearly cutting off the engines of the plane mid-flight, potentially sending 84 people to their deaths.

The

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Over a dozen life-saving operations, 15 trips to rehab and 6,000 visits to AA: How Matthew Perry spent $9MILLION on battle with drink and drugs addiction – and at one point was told by doctors he had just a 2% chance of surviving

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Matthew Perry had dozens of life-saving operations, 15 trips to rehab clinics and  spent $9 million trying to get clean as he struggled with drugs and alcohol.

Perry died aged 54 ‘after drowning in his jacuzzi at home,’ sources said on Saturday although no drugs were found on scene and there was no indication of foul play.

First responders were called to reports of a ‘cardiac arrest’ at his Los Angeles abode, according to law enforcement sources.

Perry previously detailed

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Revealed: How TikTok scammers are selling dangerous fake weight-loss drugs to desperate patients hit by diabetes medication shortage – amid growing calls for watchdog to approve breakthrough jab

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Online scammers are using platforms such as TikTok to sell dangerous fake weight-loss drugs to desperate diabetes patients hit by a medication shortage, as England’s prescription watchdog faces further pressure to approve a breakthrough jab.

In trials, a third of type 2 diabetics on the new drug, tirzepatide, shed more than 20 per cent of their body weight after just over a year and saw their blood sugars brought in check. The average person with obesity weighing 16.5 st (105

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Where Ozempic, Wegovy and New Weight Loss Drugs Came From

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Every so often a drug comes along that has the potential to change the world. Medical specialists say the latest to offer that possibility are the new drugs that treat obesity — Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and more that may soon be coming onto the market.

It’s early, but nothing like these drugs has existed before.

“Game changers,” said Jonathan Engel, a historian of medicine and health care policy at Baruch College in New York.

Obesity affects nearly 42 percent of

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