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Kanye West 's wife, Bianca Censori is frequently photographed flaunting the laws of public decency while out with her husband. The 29-year-old Australian architect and model, was recently snapped in a see-through yellow bikini along with a beige thong bottom while on a weekend getaway in Santa Barbara County, California. However, it's not the outfit fans are drawn to, but her large breasts speculating her possible below the radar boob job.

Kat Fellows, from Epsom in Surrey, says she felt breastfeeding was her 'calling' after welcoming her son Felix, now three, in May 2021. But this 'euphoria' was soon dampened after struggling to find a solution to waking up soaking every night and constantly having to change her breast pads. Frustrated and sleep deprived, just a year later she quit her job as a beauty marketing manager determined to find a solution. Now, just two years later the product, designed to offer comfort and absorbency and to be worn all day, will launch next month in the hope of easing other mothers breastfeeding journeys.

Liraglutide - sold under the brand name Saxenda - is already prescribed on the NHS to help people with type 2 diabetes manage their condition. Now, according to British experts, the injections could also slow cognitive decline as much as 18 per cent after 12 months compared to other medication. Researchers didn't speculate why the once-a-day jab, which is also used for weight loss, may help in this way. But experts today said the findings could pave the way for new treatments, cautioning further research was vital.

Not all is perfect in the world of model and TV presenter Abbey Clancy, it seems. Last week, the former Strictly winner, mother of four and wife of former footballer Peter Crouch, revealed that her libido, at just 38, had suffered at times. Speaking on the latest episode of The Therapy Crouch podcast - which she co‑presents with her husband - Abbey explained that a doctor had told her 'health anxiety' (which is where someone worries excessively about becoming ill) could affect her sex drive. 'I'm fighting battles all the time, so I'm not relaxed,' she said. 'I was talking to some of the girls and we're all getting to a certain age, our hormones are all over the place. [They told me about] an all-natural supplement for women which helps with an array of things.

The British Medical Association's (BMA) junior doctors committee will now put the offer to its members. If accepted, it will end the months of devastating walkouts. Chancellor Rachel Reeves hailed the offer 'the start of a new relationship' between the government and NHS staff. Yet she admitted 'difficult' cuts were urgently required by Government departments to fund the colossal public sector pay increases. Union chiefs warned there was still 'further to go yet', but urged members to back the deal admitting it was the 'best available at this moment in time'.

If you were watching the Paris Olympics and saw a winning athlete cross the finish line, light a cigarette and boast about the health-boosting benefits of their favourite tobacco brand, you'd be as surprised as you were disgusted. Yet it's startlingly true that tobacco companies were major Olympic sponsors right up until 1988, when cigarette brands were finally banned from advertising at the Games. For the previous 60 years, tobacco-funded Olympic medal-winners had lined up to extol the virtues of smoking and push the now bizarre claim that it enabled athletes to lead healthy lives - among them, the iconic Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals for sprinting, relay and long jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, but who died from lung cancer aged 66 in 1980, after decades of heavy smoking.

Liana Foster, from North London , travelled to Antalya in Turkey with her family earlier in July. But just two days later, the 24-year-old says she woke up 'groggy' and noticed white spots on her tonsils. After rushing to hospital, medics diagnosed her with a 'really bad case' of the common condition, which occurs when the tonsils are inflammed, and was put on an IV drip. Here, the content creator and scientist claimed doctors also told her it was 'likely' due to 'mouldy air' from her hotel room's aircon.

Those trying to quit cigarettes could be helped by weight-loss jabs. Smokers with type 2 diabetes who took the treatment sold under the brand name Wegovy were less likely to need medical care linked to their habit, researchers said. The findings indicate that the drug needs to be investigated for its use in helping people stop smoking, researchers say.

We know that ageing is inevitable - but let's be honest, who wouldn't want to slow down the process if they could - and now new research might just have brought that possibility a step closer. Last week, a team of scientists reported they'd found that a new drug can extend the lifespan of mice by up to 25 per cent. There are also plenty of science-backed lifestyle changes you can make to boost your chances of a longer, healthier life. Here we outline some of the most effective strategies...

Bizarre tweaks and surgeries to create cartoon-like features, including pointed faces, overly sculpted jaw lines and biceps comparable to Popeye, have been criticised by surgeons. Although the eye-catching looks help influencers gain thousands of followers, surgeons say these extreme and disturbing procedures can have 'severe mental and physical health consequences', including tissue death, warns Dr Omar Tillo, Harley Street plastic surgeon and medical director of CREO CLINIC.

The weight loss drugs don't just help you shift the fat from your middle. It has also been linked to a catalogue of side effects including muscle loss and 'Ozempic face'. Gaunt cheeks, thinner limbs and flatter chest and buttocks are all tell-tale signs someone is taking the drug. But, Professor Alex Mira, consultant endocrinologist at Ulster University says eating plenty of protein is one way of preventing the unflattering effects of weight loss.

Wes Streeting has branded the care regulator 'not fit for purpose' after a bombshell review found it is failing to protect patients from harm. The Health Secretary said he was 'stunned' to learn one in five care providers have never received a rating from the Care Quality Commission. And some hospitals, GP surgeries and care homes have not been reinspected for over a decade.

Men get through 850 pints of beer each year, while women drink the equivalent of 327 glasses of wine.The UK ranks 18th out of 51 European nations for its boozing, with people drinking 2.9 units (23.5g of pure alcohol) on average each day - or 20.3 units per week. NHS guidelines state that adults should not drink more than 14 units per week on a regular basis.

NHS Blood and Transplant has written to hospitals today to issue an 'Amber Alert' asking them to restrict the use of O type blood to essential cases and use substitutions where clinically safe to do so. There is only enough national stocks of O Negative blood type to last 1.6 days and national stocks of blood across all types is 4.3 days. It follows a recent cyber attack which has impacted London hospitals, that saw a gang of Russian hackers, named Qilin, target a major lab services provider and demanded a $50million ransom .

Safe sex is vital for young couples who don't want children, but some methods might not be as pregnancy-proof as you think. In fact, women have conceived children in some surprising ways that seem to defy the laws of biology. One factor that unites them all is the resilience of the human reproductive system and its ability to perform against the odds.

Medics, who treated the 68-year-old in California, were forced to peel away layers of dead tissue in the horrific case but found the tip couldn't be saved and had to be removed. However, in an apparent world first of its kind, medic used part of the man's thigh to rebuild parts of his penis. The unnamed patient told doctors from the University of California 's department of urology that he had worn the ring, which boosts an erection by trapping blood in the genitals for about 24 hours. Being unable to remove it from his engorged member by hand, he then resorted to using pliers to pry it off.

While warnings have been issued about the a spike in Covid cases in Greece the Mediterranean nation is currently faring better than Britain, official data suggests. Warnings came after Greek health officials recorded a sudden 44 per cent rise in healthcare admissions for the virus as some hospitals in Athens have started reintroducing masks. However, this 44 per cent rise only represents 205 extra hospital admissions for the nation of over 10million people. An official Greek public health report pins the rise on new so-called FLiRT variants, which have also been behind a rise in cases in the UK and US. In response to spiking cases, countries like Bulgaria have issued warnings to tourists heading to Greece to comply with 'preventive and hygienic measures' to stop the spread of disease.

A 40-year-old woman from Batley, West Yorkshire, as told she was at risk of being infected with HIV after a doctor made a 'grave error' and performed an intimate exam with a swab that had already been used on another person's genitals. The mother-of-one was left 'extremely upset and scared' when she was informed she was at risk of being infected by blood-borne diseases including HIV and hepatitis. She complained about the experience to the doctor's surgery, but after being dissatisfied with their response brought the case to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO)

One in five people wait more than a year to be diagnosed with chronic lung conditions, new research from Asthma + Lung UK revealed. More than half of those who sought medical help for coughs and chest infections were treated for their immediate symptoms but did not have the underlying cause investigated at the time. Diana Muirhead, 60, from Norforlk (pictured right) is desperate to begin treatment, having been on the waiting list for a spirometry test to confirm that she has COPD for months.

Avy Berry, 6, a child actor from Middleton, Greater Manchester, suffered from both a transient ischaemic attack - known as a mini stroke - and a stoke, which led her to undergo brain surgery. But she showed a remarkable recovery when she secured a year-long stint on Channel 4's Hollyoaks as Scott Drinkwell's foster daughter, Miley Carson (pictured left and inset). It's thought the stroke was triggered by a chicken pox infection, which she caught a few months before.

You might not think that flossing your teeth or singing in the shower could have a lasting impact on your brain. But according to experts, these are just two of the simple lifestyle tweaks proven to help prevent dementia and age-related memory loss. Exciting trials are under way into a new generation of drugs to treat Alzheimer's Disease, the commonest cause of dementia. Last week pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced that its drug, donanemab, reduced progression by up to 35 per cent in people with mild cognitive impairment.

experts fear these so-called health drinks are fueling record cases of anorexia and other eating disorders, as young people are drinking them instead of eating a proper meal. There is no specific NHS data on energy drink abuse, but anecdotally there has been an increasing number of people consuming them because the drinks suppress appetite and given an energy boost without the calories.

Last week, I made the tough decision to share in The Mail on Sunday my own terrible experience experimenting with the weight loss jab Wegovy. While recently over at a friend's house, I was convinced to have a go on 'The Pen' - which is what women my age are calling the injectable drug. At the time, it felt like a bit of fun. Everyone seems to be doing it these days. Plus, while I am by no means overweight - I have a BMI of 21.7 - I figured it could help me once again fit into my pre-baby jeans. It was a huge mistake. Within days of taking Wegovy, I was vomiting and wracked with a debilitating migraine. At one point, I really thought I might die.

A German man, 60, has likely been 'cured' of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant, doctors announced. It's a medical milestone only achieved by six other people. The German man, who remains anonymous, was dubbed the 'next Berlin patient'. The painful and risky procedure is for people who have both HIV and aggressive leukaemia, so is not an option for almost all of the nearly 40 million people living with the deadly virus across the world.

It comes after Covid inquiry chair, Baroness Heather Hallett (inset) delivered her report how, or if, the Government was prepared for an emergency like the pandemic. Her scathing report found ministers and Government had failed to prepare the UK for an 'entirely foreseeable' pandemic, making the human economic toll worse than it could have been. At least 235,000 Brits are thought to have been killed by the virus since the pandemic began, with further fatalities caused by the disruption to the NHS and regulars screening for health issues like cancer. Families, communities and businesses were also torn apart by a series of paralysing lockdowns ministers brought it in an attempt to curb Covid's spread. Responding to the inquiry report, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (left) said: 'Today's report confirms what many have always believed - that the UK was under-prepared for Covid 19 , and that process, planning and policy across all four nations failed UK citizens. 'The safety and security of the country should always be the first priority, and this Government is committed to learning the lessons from the inquiry and putting better measures in place to protect and prepare us from the impact of any future pandemic.' Head of the doctors' union the British Medical Association, Professor Philip Banfield (top right) said: 'This report reveals in all its true horror how appallingly under-prepared the governments were for the pandemic, that processes failed us as citizens, and that lives could have been saved.'

In two trials, British and US scientists also linked sports-related concussions with dementia and Parkinson-like problems, including tremours and movement difficulty in later life. The UK experts discovered found players who had been concussed had higher levels of proteins in their blood that may make them more prone to developing the diseases. The findings come after the death of Leeds Rhinos star Rob Burrow, 41, after a four-and-a-half-year battle with motor neurone disease.

Scammers are using AI to fake videos of TV doctors like Hilary Jones (top) and Michael Mosley (bottom) and to push products to unsuspecting member of the public on social media. A new report, published in the prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ), has warned of the growing rise of so-called 'deepfakes'. Deepfaking uses AI to map a digital likeness of a real-life human being onto a video of a body that isn't theirs. They've been used to create videos of politicians to make them seem inept and even for corporate heists and now they're being used to sell you dodgy 'cures'. Dr Jones is only one TV physician caught up in the trend, with a deepfake video of him endorsing a blood pressure cure spreading on Facebook earlier this year.

Actress Fay Ripley made headlines yesterday when she said that in future she would happily breastfeed her grandchildren - her own children are currently aged 17 and 21. The reactions were swift and mixed - some people were shocked, thinking it is physically impossible, while others found the idea distasteful. But the fact is, grandmothers can breastfeed their grandchildren. If they have previously breastfed, this is known as relactation. If a woman who's never been pregnant starts breastfeeding, this is called induced lactation.

Under the Prime Minister's proposal unveiled in the King's Speech, anyone born after 2009 will be banned from ever buying cigarettes. There had been uncertainty in the medical community after July's general election quashed any hopes of the historic bill put forward by Rishi Sunak, passing before the previous Parliament. But health experts said the 'bold announcement' now 'positions the UK as world leading in tobacco control' and would 'save countless lives'. Yet not all were supportive with critics decrying the move as nanny-state, a 'killjoy' and 'unworkable'. 

Eating a bowl of fresh strawberries is such a simple, healthy pleasure. Or rather, it was until a recent alarming report revealed them to be top of the 'dirty dozen' fruit and vegetables on sale in our supermarkets. Analysing the latest government data, The Pesticide Action Network UK found that 95% of strawberries, organic or not, contain PFAS pesticides - also known, appetite-crushingly, as 'forever chemicals' because once consumed, there's no getting rid of them. PFASs - Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances - have been linked to health issues including cancer, high cholesterol, reduced kidney function, thyroid disease, low fertility, repressed immune system and low birth weight in babies. It's disturbing news - especially as the other 'dirty' 11 include favourites like grapes (61% of samples contained PFASs), cherries (56%) spinach (42%), tomatoes (38%), peaches and nectarines (38%), cucumber (22%), apricots (20%), beans (15%), spices (8%), cabbage (7%), and lettuce (7%).

A health startup claims its expensive MRI scans can detect cancer and other chronic diseases, though experts have slammed the technology as 'pointless.' Vancouver-based startup Prenuvo claims its full-body scans can detect more than 500 chronic conditions that may go undetected at a regular checkup. The tests have also received backing from celebrities like Kim Kardashian Cindy Crawford. However, these tests cost up to $2,500 and are not covered by insurance. Many medical experts say the companies are selling expensive, unproven technology that may lead to overdiagnosis while ignoring rising conditions like diabetes and heart disease.

Previous generations may have put up with their parents' annoying quirks (albeit while ­complaining about them to friends and ­partners) but Millennials - those in their late 20s to early 40s - tend to cut ties altogether. So why are younger generations so quick to block and ignore their parents? Experts say it's in part down to how they've been raised, with more emphasis on the idea of preserving mental health by keeping emotional 'boundaries' intact - meaning parents who overstep them are swiftly cast out.