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An advisory committee monitoring MEPs’ conflicts of interest must be given greater independence and power to investigate abuses, the European Union’s watchdog has said.European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly said in a statement on Monday that rules recently proposed by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola to crack down on corruption and provide greater transparency on MEPs’ contact with lobbyists are “a step in the right direction” but “could be strengthened further”.Metsola proposed 14 measures earlier this month in the wake of a major cash-for-favours scandal rocking Brussels whereby several people with links to the parliament are accused of accepting large sums of money from Qatari…

Breast cancer accounts for 1 in 8 cancer diagnoses worldwide; hence it is important that people know how to mitigate their own risk. A new study has found that many women are unaware of the risk factors and how they can help reduce their breast cancer risk.The study identified breast density as a risk factor that few women were aware of.Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer globally, with cases predicted to rise to 3 million by 2040, according to researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer. They also note that 1 in 8 cancer diagnoses is…

On Valentine’s Day this year, here’s an idea from one mother to other parents.Why not write your own parents a grown-up Valentine’s Day message — and model for your own children the love between generations?Sometimes kids forget to express their affection to the very people who love them, precisely because they know they don’t need to earn their parents’ love.REDDIT POSTER SAYS RECENT STRUGGLES PROMPTED DAD TO SAY ‘LOVE YOU’ MORE — ‘IT MEANS SO MUCH’Parents are there for them all the time, no matter what they do (or don’t do). And being able to forget to thank parents for their…

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Almost every major tech company is experiencing a round of layoffs, even though most are making good profits. Many people have never seen vast layoffs like this, so the honest question is, why is this happening? Is it fashion, fatigue, or something more secular to blame? You can’t rule out fashion in a monkey-see, monkey-do way. Since there’s reasonable overlap between many tech companies, especially those that harvest user data and sell it to advertisers, each will want to cut costs to remain competitive in the eyes of its shareholders. So you see companies lopping off roughly 10% of their…

British regional airline Flybe ceased trading on Saturday (28 January) for the second time in three years. All flights were cancelled and 276 workers were made redundant.A statement on Flybe’s website said the airline, which operated scheduled services from Belfast, Birmingham and Heathrow across the UK and to Amsterdam and Geneva, had entered administration – a form of protection from creditors.”Flybe has now ceased trading and all flights from and to the UK operated by Flybe have been cancelled and will not be rescheduled,” it said.It advised people due to fly not to travel to airports.A spokesperson for administrators Interpath…

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For the two months Carey Yazeed took Ozempic, the drug worked as intended. Yazeed has type 2 diabetes, and the weekly injection lowered her blood sugar levels. But it also brought side effects she considered unbearable, including vomiting, fatigue, headaches and stomach cramps.Five weeks into taking the medication, Yazeed said, she found herself unable to move off the bathroom floor.“I had vomited so much that I didn’t have the energy to get up and I was basically lying in it,” she said. “I couldn’t even raise my head to vomit in the commode. It was so bad.”Dr. Carey Yazeed.Courtesy Carey…

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