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World's worst diabetic

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems. If she was still with us, Sue Townsend would have celebrated her 75th birthday this week. Sue, the brilliant author of The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole,…

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The story of Eva Saxl

In 1940, with World War II raging in Europe, Jewish Eva Saxl fled her native Czechoslovakia together with her husband Victor. They arrived in Shanghai, China, where they started their life as newlyweds. After a year, Eva was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Insulin had…

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Bad Science

Find out if drinking urine, balancing on mountain ledges, and genital weightlifting really did change their lives forever. Attention, flat earthers and aura readers! Here is the book for you. We're obsessed with health - half of the science stories in the media are medical-based.

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Sick day rules

I have the flu. Or at least something similar that left me in bed with splitting headaches and fever for the past four days. I'm not sure how I managed, considering the lock-down where I don't see anyone and my only social outings are trips…

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What causes type 1 diabetes?

There's been a global rise in type 1 diabetes for the past decades, and we don't know why. The increase is exponential at 3% per year worldwide. On a country-to-country basis, the incidence is higher in northern Europe and Canada than in South America and…

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