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Here are the first symptoms of a heart attack and what to do if you or someone else experiences them: Common symptoms of a heart attack: 1. Chest Pain or Discomfort: The most common symptom is a feeling of pressure, fullness, squeezing, or pain in the center or left side …

Tom Houghton picks up a pair of binoculars from the sand-covered desk and slowly scans the beach in front of him. It’s June and things are starting to get busy at one of Cornwall’s biggest beaches. Stretching for more than two miles up the county’s north coast, and backed by …

“People are suffering greatly due to landmines,” Mr. Lobov told UN News, adding that experts have reported that almost one third of the country is contaminated with unexploded ordnance. “Many adults and children have died,” he said. “We have the highest rate of such losses in the world. No one …

Kevin McDonald, formerly of Fulham, Wolves and the Scotland national team, hasn’t had a straightforward life as a professional football – not least because he was diagnosed with a degenerative kidney disease as an 18-year-old.  The central midfielder came through the academy at Scottish side Dundee, but it wasn’t until …

Drones circling above the peaks of Snowdonia, providing an airborne mobile network in remote areas, may soon become a feature of the region’s mountain rescue operation. The drones – like small unmanned gliders but with twin engines – would carry equipment providing 4G and 5G connectivity that would link mountain …

The international model made this known during the Propper Daley’s “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation” summit. “Two years ago, when I was pregnant with Jack, John and my third child, I had to make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decisions,” she said. “It became very clear around halfway through …

CNN  —  Vaccine coverage continued to decline worldwide in 2021, with 25 million children missing out on lifesaving vaccines, according to data published Thursday by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. “The largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years has been recorded,” the organizations said in a …

A British mother returning from a life-saving brain operation in Spain was stopped by UK Border Force officials after she and her husband were accused of international drug smuggling.     Shocking pictures show Rachel Pighills, 36, sobbing while lying on a stretcher and connected to an oxygen tank inside a warehouse …

Dr. Kate O’Brien, Immunization Director at the World Health Organization, devoted her life to immunization after working in a paediatric ward in Haiti, where she saw that a third of the children admitted were dying from diseases that could be prevented through vaccines.  She explains how the United Nations, and …