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by | 19th, November 2005

‘WARNING: READING THE DAILY MAIL MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH.

Monday

“PILL MADE ME CASINO ADDICT”

Ruth Miles claims Mirpax, the drug she was prescribed to treat her Parkinson’s disease, turned her into a compulsive gambler. Said she: “The drug hijacked my brain, robbed me of any conscience”

“FEAR OF PANDEMIC GROWS AS BIRD FLU ADAPTS TO HUMANS”

Though it has yet to adapt, the Mail says the H5N1 virus could do

“Bullying ‘affects almost every child in Britain’”

Tuesday

“Atkins can harm the heart in two weeks”

Researchers from Oxford University, funded by the British Heart Foundation, found that the Atkins diet directly affects the heart in its ability to store energy

“Blood clots kill 60,000 hospital patients a year”

“Menopause DOES trigger arthritis”

“Jack Higgins used to write three thrillers a year. Now, hit by nerve disease, his hands shake so much he cannot type a word”

“A poisonous betrayal…Forget letting us down over global warming, Blair’s true crime is to sabotage proposals limiting the chemicals poisoning us all”

Wednesday

“Cancer that is blamed on binge drinking”

Cancer Research UK says cases of mouth cancer have shot up 25 per cent in a decade.

“The drug more addictive than crack”

Methamphetamine, know as ice, crystal meth or Tina, is on its way to the UK from the US

“Bird flu shambles”

“The Government cannot guarantee that diseased birds were not removed from quarantine early and sold to the public”

“The stroke victims who don’t have to die”

“More than 2,000 stoke victims a year are needlessly dying or being left disabled by failings in the NHS”

“How daily aspirin ‘may put men at risk’”

The American Heart Foundation Association’s annual conference was told that aspirin increases men’s chances of having haemorrhagic strokes by 96 per cent.

“Next week 24-hour drinking become legal. But what safeguards are in place to protect vulnerable youngsters? We sent two 24-year-olds to one Saturday night pub. In just two hours they were served enough alcohol [pictured] to put them in a coma”

Thursday

“Why bird flu drugs will not be enough”

“Are we in danger of overdosing on vitamin pills?”

“Women ‘ignoring risks’ of delaying children”

Women risk “heartbreak” by delaying motherhood until their late 30s

Friday

“The daredevil gene – Scientists discover why some of us are born to take more risks than the rest”’



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