Cleanse and groan
	7:00pm Tue 26 Aug 08
	TO many people, "colon" is a dirty word and the thought of having it "cleansed" is known to cause an involuntary clench of the buttocks.
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	Food for thought
	11:15am Wed 20 Aug 08
	IT seems that never a day goes by without another warning which we’re urged to heed if we want to live longer, healthier, happier lives. But the advice can often appear contradictory. Dr Peter Marsh, co-director of the Social Issues Research Centre, warns that our exposure to high doses of health scares can result in a kind of “warning fatigue”.

	Out of the darkness
	7:00pm Tue 12 Aug 08
	WITH the pressures facing teenagers today, it's no wonder many have down days.

	Better off dead? Not on your life!
	7:00am Tue 12 Aug 08
	A study by Cancer Research UK found that almost one in 10 cancer patients think they would be better off dead. Research highlighted the risk of suicidal thoughts among people trying to battle the disease. But as one cancer sufferer writes here his only thought was to beat the illness
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	A pain reaction
	7:00pm Tue 5 Aug 08
	I HAVE never thought of myself as an allergic sort of person. But as I answered the questions posed by nurse Alice Chiwoko at the Nuffield Hospital in Bournemouth, I realised I may have been deluding myself all these years.
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	Tummy trouble
	10:34am Wed 30 Jul 08
	LOOKING back, Diane Martin thinks her son Robert was already showing signs of inflammatory bowel disease when he was in his final year at primary school in Bournemouth.

	Learning curve
	11:31am Thu 3 Jul 08
	Joanna Codd finds out how caring for people with learning disabilities has changed… for the better

	Hyp hooray - I eased my labour pains
	2:44pm Tue 24 Jun 08
	PERHAPS Victoria Beckham - who famously opted to have her children by caesarean - wasn't too posh to push after all.

	D is for dilemma...
	7:00pm Tue 17 Jun 08
	Stay pale and save your skin or soak up the vital vitamin?
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