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Women in their late 30s are freezing eggs because they are still hunting for "Mr Right", research suggests.

A study of women at a Belgian clinic found half of the women wanted to freeze their eggs to take the pressure off finding a partner, a fertility conference heard.

A third of the women studied were also having eggs frozen as an "insurance policy" against infertility. Some reported they would consider the procedure to focus on a career before motherhood, a separate UK survey found.

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White Rice Raises Diabetes Risk, say US experts.

White rice White rice has a higher glycaemic index than brown rice. Replacing white rice with brown rice and wholemeal bread could cut the risk of diabetes by a third, US experts say.

White rice poses a diabetes threat because it causes steep rises in blood sugar, say Harvard researchers in Archives of Internal Medicine.

Brown rice and other wholegrain foods are a healthier option as they release glucose more gradually, they say. The study is based on questionnaires; some say the data is not robust enough to base firm conclusions on.

It may be that people who eat less white rice tend to live healthier lifestyles, for example. In the study of nearly 200,000 US people, white rice consumption was linked to type 2 diabetes. After adjusting for age and other diabetes risk factors, those who ate five or more 150g servings of white rice per week had a 17% increased risk of diabetes compared with people who consumed less than one serving - about a cup of rice - per month.

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Early treatment with TXA could combat the effects of serious bleeding Up to 100,000 lives could be saved every year if a known drug were given to seriously bleeding trauma patients, says a report from a global trial.

The research reported in The Lancet shows that tranexamic acid (TXA), which helps blood to clot, could lower the risk of dying by 15%.

Developing countries would benefit most from this treatment, say researchers after studying 20,000 patients. Each year 600,000 injured patients bleed to death worldwide.

World Health Organisation figures show that nearly six million people die each year from injuries, which accounts for 10% of the world's deaths.

Most of those injury deaths occur in developing countries, where deaths from road traffic crashes and homicide have been steadily increasing. Almost half of those deaths are caused by bleeding.

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