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A clinician involved in the study said obesity was 'without doubt' the main driver behind most recent liver cancer cases A “TRIPLE whammy” of obesity, alcohol consumption and Hepatitis C has been blamed as new research revealed that Scotland has the UK’s highest rates of liver cancer, with deaths and diagnoses doubling since the late 1990s. There are also warnings that the trend is expected to worsen due to the behavioural impact of lockdown on drinking, overeating and lack of exercise, as well as later detection. While survival rates have improved - and are highest in Scotland - ...

FOR the past year there has been an almost daily count of deaths from Covid-19. These grew as the pandemic progressed and just under 10,000 families across Scotland have lost loved ones to this disease. But other causes of death have not disappeared and are no less important. Cancer is and remains Scotland’s biggest killer, accounting for around 16,000 deaths per year. Huge progress has been made in reducing cases and deaths for some types of cancer, with two in four people surviving cancer for at least ten years. But this has not been the case for liver cancer. Although this cancer is ...

Electronic waste now considered to be the biggest threat to our planet Electronic waste should now be regarded as the greatest threat to our planet, according to the Global Recycling Foundation. The United Nations has already warned that the current 53 million tonnes of e-waste generated every year will more than double by 2050 making it the fastest growing waste stream in the world. The Founding president of the Global Recycling Foundation, Ranjit Baxi, said: “It may already be too late to stem the tide of the millions of discarded smart phones and other electronic waste from fridges and...

As the clock struck midnight in Brussels on December 31, the UK's Brexit transition period for leaving the EU ended and with it the country's membership of the decades-old Erasmus programme. As many as three million people have passed through the scheme since it started in 1987, which offers university students in the European Union the opportunity to study in another country. The programme also has some famous alumni, including former EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, a host of European politicians and Tom Bird, former executive producer at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. N...

York's travelling panto has been called off for this week following the recent rise in the city's coronavirus rate YORK Theatre Royal has decided not to stage any more of its successful Travelling Pantomimes, following the recent rise in coronavirus cases in the city. The show went earlier this month to Tang Hall, Dunnington, Wigginton, Holgate, Clifton Moor, Elvington, Poppleton, Acomb, Carr Lane, Strensall, Copmanthorpe, Fulford, Heworth and Guildhall, and several post-Christmas performances had been planned for this week. But executive director Tom Bird said that with 'great regret,'...