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Medical health experts have warned groups of younger women that health providers may miss heart attack symptoms, even if all of them are presenting themselves.

Greek-born actor Irene Papas, famous for her fiery appearances in the internationally acclaimed "The Guns of Navarone" and "Zorba the Greek", died Wednesday at the age of 93. Greece's Culture Minister Lina Mendoni in a statement said Papas was "majestic" and "the personification of Greek beauty on the cinema screen…

Thousands of claimants across the UK are receiving cash payments of between £97.80 and £627.60 each month through the Personal Independence Payments (PIP) scheme.

They argue the threat posed by COVID has lessened because of preexisting immunity and access to treatment. Plus, some deaths may be incorrectly blamed on COVID. Others caution it's too soon to tell.

Children and women are becoming more vulnerable as tens of thousands of people suffer from infectious and water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan and the death toll from the inundation surpassed 1,500, according to government data and UNICEF on Friday.

Thailand's eighth confirmed monkeypox case is a 23-year-old Thai service provider who returned from Qatar on Tuesday, the chief of the Department of Disease Control said on Friday.

Moira Chittdenden, from Dunfermline, Fife, was diagnosed with the terminal illness in October 2021 after struggling with muscle weakness on one side of her body.

There are 24 main respiratory conditions including asthma being supported by the DWP.

New Zealand’s decision to end most COVID health measures is welcome, as it removes controls that are in most cases no longer essential. But the new COVID management phase looks like a short-term reaction to declining case numbers rather than a longer-term strategy.