United Kingdom Health News API

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            "content": "Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK and the second leading cause of cancer deaths. While screening programmes have helped to reduce cases in older adults, diagnoses among younger people have risen and are expected to double betwee... [3784 chars]",
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            "description": "The cost of medication was too high for thousands of CF sufferers around the world. Now a Bangladeshi company is making a generic version that will change lives",
            "content": "Seven-year-old Grant Leitch had an important question for his mother. He asked if his little brother, Brett, who has cystic fibrosis (CF), was going to die.\nThe South African family, like tens of thousands around the world, have been priced out of ac... [6504 chars]",
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