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Should I stop smoking cannabis?
13 Oct 2014: A review of 20 years of cannabis studies has resulted in apocalyptic headlines about the harm caused by the drug. Is it really more dangerous than previously thought? Luisa Dillner reports
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22 Oct 2014:
Determined campaigner against female genital mutilation
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22 Oct 2014: Babies born prematurely in Iceland and whose mothers are unable to breastfeed are to benefit from Danish milk banks
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22 Oct 2014:
Milli Hill: Birth is a fundamental feminist issue right now - women’s bodies should not be sanitised. Facebook should let us see it as it is
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21 Oct 2014: Woman, who is in her 30s and suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, had ‘childlike vision’ of babies ‘popping out’
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21 Oct 2014: Paula Cocozza: Phthalates are found in numerous items around the home, and even in food packaging. So it’s a little worrying that they are being linked to, among other things, a decrease in libido in women
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20 Oct 2014:
Japan is a country where thinness is the norm. So can a trend embracing ‘chubbiness’ help young women reject fat-shaming stereotypes? By Abigail Haworth
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20 Oct 2014: Courts will be able to use FGM protection orders to prevent girls at risk being taken out of country
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20 Oct 2014: Dorkenoo’s lifelong dream of a global, Africa-led movement against FGM was realised just a week before her death
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20 Oct 2014:
It’s not only the way that you say it that matters: it helps to be a powerful man, says Katharine Whitehorn
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20 Oct 2014: Joanna Friend was given tranquillisers and antidepressants, and spent a week on a psychiatric unit when she relapsed
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20 Oct 2014: Maternal Mental Health Alliance says NHS would need to spend £337m a year to bring care up to recommended levels
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19 Oct 2014:
Eleanor Tucker: This long-term condition causes severe stomach pain and diarrhoea and it’s on the increase, especially in young people. Yet doctors often fail to recognise it
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19 Oct 2014: Luisa Dillner: Parents in south Wales have been advised that children with tonsillitis, conjunctivitis and glandular fever don’t need time off school. Should they follow these guidelines?
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18 Oct 2014: For some women, ‘breast is best’ is painful, miserable - or simply not possible
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18 Oct 2014:
Growing up I was never told not to cry, but it’s something I struggle with
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