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Early open heart surgery could save Britons from deadly strokes

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Patients diagnosed with a common but deadly heart condition should get major surgery as early as possible – even if they feel perfectly healthy – a study has concluded.

The American Heart Association Scientific Sessions conference yesterday heard that the lives of people with aortic stenosis, which affects more than 400,000 Britons, could be extended if they have open-heart surgery within months of diagnosis.

The operation to replace a damaged aortic valve – the opening of the main blood vessels

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Is this really about Covid? Pro-lockdown group demands Plan B now to ‘save NHS and Xmas’

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‘Zero-Covid’ scientists today demanded the Government activates its winter ‘Plan B’ to protect the NHS, despite the fact coronavirus cases and hospital admissions are falling.

Independent Sage, a pressure group of eminent experts who’ve pushed for an Australian-style virus elimination strategy, said compulsory masks and widespread WFH were ‘urgently’ needed to ‘save the NHS and Christmas’.

The group — which includes a former Government chief scientific adviser, a Communist Party member and some of No10’s own scientists — claimed the

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Yuval Noah Harari Believes This Simple Story Can Save the Planet

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With the publication in the United States of his best-selling “Sapiens” in 2015, the Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari arrived at the top rank of public intellectuals, a position he consolidated with “Homo Deus” (2017) and “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” (2018). Harari’s key theme is the idea that human society has largely been driven by our species’s capacity to believe in what he calls fictions: those things whose power is derived from their existence in our

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Speed up booster jabs to save Christmas, say experts amid calls for Covid Plan B to be enacted

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How do I book a booster? And who’s eligible for a third shot?

Who is eligible for a booster? Anyone over the age of 50 who had their second dose at least six months ago.

Younger people with health conditions that put them at greater risk of getting very ill from Covid are also due a booster, as well as frontline NHS and care home staff.

How can I get one? When you become eligible you should receive a text,

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Anguish of the stillbirth dilemma: Dramatic proposal from NICE could save infant lives 

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Had Alex Barr’s daughter Marnie been born a day earlier, she would — in all likelihood — still be alive.

Alex, 33, a nurse, was almost two weeks over her estimated due date when her husband Steve drove her to the maternity unit to be checked in April last year.

The pregnancy had already been an anxious one. Alex had the extreme morning sickness disorder hyperemesis gravidarum throughout, and then there were concerns that Marnie’s growth had slowed down in

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Can We Move Our Forests in Time to Save Them? – Mother Jones

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I drove to Oregon because I wanted to see the future. Our rapidly changing climate vexes me, keeps me up at night—perhaps you’ve felt this, too—and recently I’d become particularly preoccupied with trees. In California, where I live, climate change helped kill nearly 62 million trees in 2016 alone, and last year, 4.2 million acres of our state burned. I wanted

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These Purple-Urchin Slayers Are Trying to Save Pacific Kelp Forests – Mother Jones

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Grant Downie had been out of the Pacific Ocean for about 10 minutes when he realized he could no longer see out of his right eye. 

The second-generation commercial diver had been deeper beneath the waves than usual searching for his catch—red

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Can “Lottocracy” Save Democracy From Itself?

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Disabling Utopia to Save It

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How Democrats Are Fighting to Save Voting Rights

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There is a gnawing anxiety among voting-rights advocates that even if Democrats find a way to roll back the Senate filibuster and pass new federal legislation safeguarding access to the ballot, the Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court might still strike it down.

Last week’s Supreme Court ruling, in which the six Republican-appointed justices outvoted the three appointed by Democrats to uphold two Arizona laws that critics called racially discriminatory, has elevated that concern to a new height. It is

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