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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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Meet the man who scaled one of the biggest unclimbed rock faces on EARTH: Documentary shows Alex ‘No Big Deal’ Honnold risking his life to become the first person to climb Greenland’s Ingmikortilaq

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Alex Honnold first shot to fame back in 2018, when he became the first person in the world to climb the sheer face of Yosemite’s El Capitan with no rope.

Yet despite being joined by some of the world’s best climbers, and actually putting on a harness this time, his latest project is no less death-defying. 

Alex has taken on Greenland’s Ingmikortilaq – one of the biggest unclimbed rock faces in the world. 

During the risky mission, Alex was blinded

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Why the Studios Are Risking Everything

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Labor stoppages are, first and foremost, about money, and the concurrent Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America strikes are no exception. The actors and the writers want more of it, as well as limits on the use of AI. The studios say they don’t have nearly as much to distribute as the actors and the writers would like given the massive expenses they’ve incurred while standing up their streaming services. They find themselves at an impasse that threatens

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EXKLUSIVThe Women Of Prime Video’s ‘The One That Got Away’ Talk Dating, Life Before The Show & Risking It All For LoveAshley Algarin, Allyssa Anderson und Kasey Ma setzten sich exklusiv mit OK zusammen! um über ihre Erfahrungen in der Show zu plaudern. Von Alexandra StoneJun. 24 2022, veröffentlicht 17:59 Uhr ET

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Was ist, wenn die Person, mit der Sie Ihre Zukunft verbringen sollen, aus Ihrer Vergangenheit stammt? Die experimentelle Dating-Show von Prime Video Der Davongekommenere stellt und beantwortet diese Frage, wenn sich eine Gruppe von sechs Singles der seltenen Gelegenheit gegenüber sieht, Liebe zu finden, wo sie es am wenigsten erwartet haben.

Nach und nach erhält jeder Single die Möglichkeit, auf „the portal“ jemanden zu treffen, den er einmal kannte, sei es ein Freund aus Kindertagen, ein Nachbar oder ein Kollege.

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Risking a Society’s Retribution, Growing Numbers of Girls Resist Genital Cutting

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KAMAKWIE, Sierra Leone — When Seio Bangura’s final high school exam results arrived not long ago, she learned she had earned grades high enough to get into college. It was a thrilling moment for the daughter of farmers who never finished primary school. But Ms. Bangura is not making plans for university. Instead, she spends most days siting on a bench, watching others head to class or work.

Ms. Bangura, 18, left home almost five years ago, after her parents

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Women are risking ‘serious side effects’ in desperate efforts to source HRT, UK’s top GP warns 

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Professor Martin Marshall, the chair of the Royal College of GPs, said he appreciated the distress it was causing but urged women not to mix and match prescriptions

Desperate women are putting themselves at risk of ‘serious side effects’ trying to source HRT on the black market amid an NHS shortage, Britain’s top GP has warned.

Surging demand and supply issues have left many struggling to access hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs that soothe symptoms of the menopause. 

The most

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Experts say GPs are risking another NHS scandal by not prescribing new mothers anti-depressants

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Some doctors’ reluctance to continue to prescribe antidepressants to women when they become pregnant is putting new mothers at risk of mental health problems, experts warn.

Their caution is linked to fears that the medications – taken by about six million people in the UK, and one in ten women – increase the risk of heart defects, autism and serious lung conditions in unborn children.

Studies have also linked some of the pills to severe postnatal bleeding in women, low

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