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DR SARAH JARVIS: For many of the 3.5 million people diagnosed with osteoporosis in the UK, it comes too late for treatment that can help protect against loss of bone density.

To the dismay of the refurbished Britannic Explorer's passengers, its maiden voyage has hit the buffers. Some passengers paid upwards of £50,000 for a three-night stay in its 'grand suites'.

This week, leading money educator Vanessa Stoykov helps a couple who are thinking of ditching their life insurance due to the rising cost of premiums.

LORD ASHCROFT: As Labour limps to the end of its first year in office, the marks are in and the verdict is brutal. A series of U-turns has only added to the sense of incoherence and confusion.

The Crown star Claire Foy has long been vocal about sexual equality and the gender pay gap. So when she went for dinner with her long-term boyfriend, of course they split the bill between them.

The singer, who had the headline slot at The Other Stage last Saturday night, drew a crowd of thousands of people and the stage had to be closed.

Harry Cooksley is in for a shock in Sunday's episode of Love Island as his ex-girlfriend Emma Munro, 30, enters the villa.

Walker's move to the Turf Moor comes after he failed to be part of City's squad for the FIFA Club World Cup , alongside fellow England international Jack Grealish, and had been looking for a new club.

Luis Enrique's side booked their spot in the final four of the competition thanks to goals from Desire Doue and Ousmane Dembele, in what was a incident-ridden affair in Atlanta, Georgia.

The rocker, 76, is set to take to stage around 8.30pm for his last live performance alongside his bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial finally reached a verdict on Wednesday after jurors initially deadlocked on four of five charges the day before.

"Some of our basic assumptions about the biological process of aging might be wrong," reports the New York Times — citing new research on a small Indigenous population in the Bolivian Amazon. [Alternate URL here.] Scientists have long believed that long-term, low-grade inflammation — also known as "inflammaging" — is a universal hallmark of getting older. But this new data raises the question of whether inflammation is directly linked to aging at all, or if it's linked to a person's lifestyle or environment instead. The study, which was published Monday, found that people in two nonindustrialized areas experienced a different kind of inflammation throughout their lives than more urban people — likely tied to infections from bacteria, viruses and parasites rather than the precursors of chronic disease. Their inflammation also didn't appear to increase with age. Scientists compared inflammation signals in existing data sets from four distinct populations in Italy, Singapore, Bolivia and Malaysia; because they didn't collect the blood samples directly, they couldn't make exact apples-to-apples comparisons. But if validated in larger studies, the findings could suggest that diet, lifestyle and environment influence inflammation more than aging itself, said Alan Cohen, an author of the paper and an associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University. "Inflammaging may not be a direct product of aging, but rather a response to industrialized conditions," he said, adding that this was a warning to experts like him that they might be overestimating its pervasiveness globally. "How we understand inflammation and aging health is based almost entirely on research in high-income countries like the U.S.," said Thomas McDade, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University. But a broader look shows that there's much more global variation in aging than scientists previously thought, he added... McDade, who has previously studied inflammation in the Tsimane group, speculated that populations in nonindustrialized regions might be exposed to certain microbes in water, food, soil and domestic animals earlier in their lives, bolstering their immune response later in life. More from The Independent: Chronic inflammation is thought to speed up the ageing process and contribute to various health conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, cancer, heart disease, and Type 2 diabetes... However, other experts shared a word of caution before jumping to conclusions from the study. Vishwa Deep Dixit, director of the Yale Center for Research on Aging, told the New York Times it's not surprising that people less exposed to pollution would see lower rates of chronic disease. Aurelia Santoro, an associate professor at the University of Bologna, also cautioned about the results, according to the Times. "While they had lower rates of chronic disease, the two Indigenous populations tended to have life spans shorter than those of people in industrialized regions, meaning they may simply not have lived long enough to develop inflammaging, Santoro said." And Bimal Desai, a professor of pharmacology who studies inflammation at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, told the Times that the study "sparks valuable discussion" but needs more follow-up "before we rewrite the inflammaging narrative."

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Tamara Ecclestone has shared an image of her eldest daughter Sophia - also known as Fifi - on Instagram on Saturday posing in heels and a mini dress, sporting a full face of make-up.

The shocking incident occurred at 1pm at Rawtenstall Cemetery in Burnley Road, Haslingdon, on Saturday and emergency services were called to the scene.

Fans on social media praised a 'beautiful tribute' but are asking the club to go one step further and retire the number 18 shirt which he wore for three seasons at Molineux.

Progressive Americans who are trying to flee Trump's hardline policies are eying a move to liberal European countries - but they could be in for a rude awakening.

The pair played Phoebe Halliwell and Cole Turner on Charmed, and their characters were even briefly married

Richard Corrigan, 61, runs multiple high-end eateries in London and most recently opened The Portrait Restaurant atop The National Portrait Gallery.

The email, sent to employees of Swissport, which runs passenger gates in several airports in Britain, confirmed that staff would receive £1.20 (£1 after tax) for every 'gate bag' deemed too large.

During the latest series of the show - hosted by Stephen Mulhern - Luke Kempner made it all the way to the Super Catchphrase before falling at the last hurdle.