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Drinking moderately 'cuts diabetes risk'

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Wine can protect against the condition - but too much is still a bad thing, the research suggests.

  • 28 July 2017
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Terminally ill man Noel Conway in right-to-die fight

Noel Conway has motor neurone disease and wants a doctor to be allowed to prescribe a lethal dose.

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