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Emily Stearn @emilynstearn

Health News Editor @TheSun // Got a story? Get in touch/say hi: Emily.Stearn@thesun.co.uk

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Daily Mail Health@DMAILhealth
15 Nov 2025
New 'smart' bra to detect breast cancer - @emilynstearn on the wearable tech being developed at Nottingham Trent University and the University of Glasgow mol.im/a/15287583

Can a bra really detect breast cancer? New 'smart' device could help

British scientists, who developed the 'smart bra', believe the tech will detect tumours as small as 5mm, which may be missed in between mammogram screenings.

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8 Dec 2024
REVEALED: How social media influencers earn thousands from selling prescription Mounjaro jabs to women who simply want to get beach body ready trib.al/z3O4Rt9
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5 Dec 2024
'Our son was killed on holiday by peanuts hidden in a pudding - we watched him die over video': Anguished parents of 19-year-old claim hotel staff insisted the dish was safe to eat trib.al/cWofU1M
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Dr David Nicholl@djnicholl
25 Nov 2024
Dear @axa Iโ€™m a neurologist here, please read this thread ๐Ÿ‘‡and alert whoever your medical director isโ€ฆ.as they are in grave likelihood of facing a fitness to practice decision by failing to consider the insured persons best interests
Cat Rubens@catrubens
25 Nov 2024
1. I donโ€™t often tweet about my personal life, but on 1st November, my mum Jane was hit by a large vehicle as a pedestrian in St. Louis, USA. She suffered a severe brain injury & remains in a coma in hospital. Here's Jane & me in happier times.
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Ian Hamilton@ian_hamilton_
23 Oct 2024
This piece includes my thoughts shared with @emilynstearn mol.im/a/13991411 via @MailOnline

Drug overdose deaths hit record high with Gen X behind grim trend

A record-breaking 5,448 drug poisoning deaths were recorded in 2023 - a rate of 93 deaths per million people. This isย the eleventh consecutive annual rise.

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Chris Smyth@Smyth_Chris
21 Oct 2024
Meanwhile over on the NHS consultation website, we have a new winner
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Community Pharmacy England
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19 Oct 2024
๐Ÿšจ Our Pharmacy Pressures Survey: Staffing and Morale report, which sheds light on the critical impact of staffing pressures on community pharmacies and patients ๐Ÿ‘ฅ, has been featured in todayโ€™s @MailOnline.๐Ÿ‘‡
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19 Oct 2024
How YOUR High Street pharmacy may be forced to shut up shop - desperate tales reveal workers on brink of collapse: 'My last day off was for my son's funeral two years ago' trib.al/FGoudlV
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Medical Journalists' Association@mjauk
26 May 2024
Outrage at NHS rules to send new mums home with just paracetamol - from @emilynstearn dailymail.co.uk/health/articโ€ฆ

Outrage at NHS rules to send new mums home with just paracetamol

Campaigners and doctors slammed the move, claiming it was yet another example of women's pain issues in healthcare being ignored or underplayed.

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๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Worst Whooping Cough Outbreak In Forty Years โ–ซFive babies dead as experts blame fall in vaccination rates โ–ซ@kate_pickles @emilynstearn โ–ซis.gd/qtrPnW ๐Ÿ‘ˆ #frontpagestoday #UK @DailyMailUK ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Shaun Walsh@shaunewalsh
24 Apr 2024
We urgently need a long term cancer strategy to help drive earlier diagnosis. This should be a key commitment in all party manifestos for the General Election #cancermanifesto NHS's goal to diagnose cancer earlier is 'seriously off target' mol.im/a/13340581 @emilynstearn

NHS's goal to diagnose cancer earlier is 'seriously off target'

Under an ambitious plan to tackle the country's 'cancer calamity', the NHS vowed in 2019 to diagnose 75 per cent of patients in the earliest stage by 2028.

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Lawrence Young@LawrenceYoung11
1 Feb 2024
About time! Interesting that it's only the Novavax vaccine that will initially be available privately. It's a protein vaccine containing the XBB.1.5 spike. Pharmacists to sell top-up Covid jabs privately to anyone for ยฃ45 mol.im/a/13032965 via @MailOnline

Pharmacists to sell top-up Covid jabs privately to anyone for ยฃ45

Throughout the pandemic, jabs have only been available on the NHS. But under a huge shake-up to the scheme, high street pharmacies will be allowed to sell them by April 1 at the latest.

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Simon Williams@drsimonwilliams
1 Feb 2024
Covid boosters available to buy - but will people buy? Our research last year found opinion was split - but a significant proportion of those ineligible for free jabs would be willing: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/92โ€ฆ mol.im/a/13032965 via @emilynstearn @MailOnline
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Medical Journalists' Association@mjauk
20 Jan 2024
UK declares national incident over measles outbreak as fears vaccine hesitancy hit uptake of MMR jab dailymail.co.uk/health/articโ€ฆ

UK declares 'national incident' over measles outbreak

As few as half of children have had both measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jabs in parts of London. Similarly low levels are also seen in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.

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Simon Williams@drsimonwilliams
20 Jan 2024
โ€œThe misinformation about Covid vaccines being spread during the pandemic, will in some cases have had a "spillover" effect into other vaccinesโ€ Good to speak with @emilynstearn @MailOnline about measles vaccines & outbreaks: dailymail.co.uk/health/articโ€ฆ

UK declares 'national incident' over measles outbreak

As few as half of children have had both measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jabs in parts of London. Similarly low levels are also seen in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.

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Ian Hamilton@ian_hamilton_
19 Dec 2023
Shared some thoughts with @emilynstearn about todays record rise in drug related deaths mol.im/a/12880477 via @MailOnline

Drug deaths soar to all-time high with cocaine fatalities up 80-FOLD

Official figures released today reveal there were 4,907 deaths in England and Wales related to drug poisoning registered in 2022 - a rate of 84.4 deaths per million people.

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Medical Journalists' Association@mjauk
26 Nov 2023
Urgent warning over fake Ozempic jabs in UK as Brits hospitalised reports mol.im/a/12787083 @emilynstearn for @MailOnline

Urgent warning over fake Ozempic jabs in UK as Brits hospitalised

UK health officials had already admitted to seizing 369 potentially fake Ozempic pens since January. Bogus versions of Saxenda had also been reported.

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Andrew McCracken@hellomccracken
7 Nov 2023
Passing the smoking ban legislation would be genuinely landmark moment for health - government should have the courage to implement the ban quickly. As @TheKingsFund's @RichardDMurray1 says in this @emilynstearn write up of #KingSpeech measures on smoking. dailymail.co.uk/health/articโ€ฆ

Rishi Sunak defies Tory revolt vowing with law to ban cigarettes

Announcing he would seek to phase out cigarettes in England for those born from 2009 onwards, Mr Sunak argued he was building 'a better future for our children'.

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Company Chemists' Association@CCApharmacy
23 Oct 2023
๐Ÿ“ฃJust 11,414 community pharmacies offering key NHS services remain โ€” the lowest level since records began in 2015/16. โœ๏ธby @emilynstearn, with reaction from our CEO Malcolm Harrison. ๐Ÿ”—Read the article below: dailymail.co.uk/health/articโ€ฆ

Number of community pharmacies plunge to a record new low

EXCLUSIVE: Just 11,414 community pharmacies offering key NHS services remain - the lowest level since records began in 2015/16. Almost 400 shut their doors in 2022/23 alone, statistics show.

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Stephen Griffin@SGriffin_Lab
5 Sep 2023
So, BA.2.86 is only as antibody evasive as the viruses that...already evade our antibodies...and cause waves...๐Ÿค” We haven't IDd enough cases yet to determine differences in pathogenicity...and there ARE interesting changes. Grateful to @emilynstearn dailymail.co.uk/health/articโ€ฆ

New study suggests Pirola may not be as dangerous as first feared

Early results from a US lab found those who had previously been infected with Covid or had a jab had a similar level of immunity to other fellow Omicron Covid variants.

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Lawrence Young@LawrenceYoung11
4 Sep 2023
What's happening with Covid in the UK? Experts weigh-in dailymail.co.uk/health/articโ€ฆ via @MailOnline

What's happening with Covid in the UK? Experts weigh-in

Covid infection rates in Britain are already starting to shoot up. But what do experts predict will happen over winter? How deadly is the new variant? And can we expect to enter another lockdown?

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