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Exercise calorie labels 'make food less tempting'

Consumers should be told it takes four hours to walk off the calories in a pizza, researchers say.

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Generic pic of people helping themselves to pizza

Exercise calorie labels 'make food less tempting'

Consumers should be told it takes four hours to walk off the calories in a pizza, researchers say.

Generic pic of people helping themselves to pizza

Exercise calorie labels 'make food less tempting'

Consumers should be told it takes four hours to walk off the calories in a pizza, researchers say.

Ellie from Audit lab

'My boss lets us book hangover days'

One firm lets employees work from the comfort of their own sofa, even after they've been out drinking.

Anaesthetist with a patient

Woman operated on while not properly anaesthetised

The patient said she was "traumatised" after feeling a cut in her belly button during surgery.

People light candles as they pay their respects for the victims of the shooting at a hospital in Ostrava, Czech Republic, 10 December 2019

Gunman kills six in Czech hospital waiting room

The man opened fire at the hospital in Ostrava before going on the run and shooting himself dead.

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A third of hospitals 'increased parking charges'

Income from fees jumps 10% in a year, with hourly charges of up to £4 levied.

Debbie (left) and Elaine (right)

Online prescribing 'must get safer'

A UK coroner warns there could be more deaths unless regulation is tightened.

Manish Shah

GP guilty of sex assaults on 23 female patients

Manish Shah cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health.

Ellie from Audit lab

'My boss lets us book hangover days'

One firm lets employees work from the comfort of their own sofa, even after they've been out drinking.

Anaesthetist with a patient

Woman operated on while not properly anaesthetised

The patient said she was "traumatised" after feeling a cut in her belly button during surgery.

People light candles as they pay their respects for the victims of the shooting at a hospital in Ostrava, Czech Republic, 10 December 2019

Gunman kills six in Czech hospital waiting room

The man opened fire at the hospital in Ostrava before going on the run and shooting himself dead.

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Debbie (left) and Elaine (right)
Manish Shah

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UK start-up's magic mushroom medicine passes safety test - report

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A UK-based mental health start-up has reportedly taken a step closer to getting its psilocybin medicine licensed for the treatment of depression.

According to the Financial Times, psychiatrists at King’s College London found no serious negative effects during the first controlled clinical study of psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms.

The psilocybin was produced synthetically, rather than being extracted from magic mushrooms, by London-based company Compass Pathways.

The development comes as interest grows on both sides of the Atlantic around the use of psychedelic drugs to treat psychological conditions.

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