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Prof Neena Modi, professor of neonatal medicine at Imperial College London, said: "This will disadvantage groups such as women who are sensitive to gluten, eat rice in preference to bread, and products made from wholemeal flour - excluding them and their babies from benefiting, and thus adding to the considerable health inequities that already exist in the UK."

Tanton gravitated to science — not to the fundamentalist Evangelical United Brethren Church of his mother — and eventually studied medicine.

Pharmacy funding is set by devolved governments but the medicine funding arrangements - known as the drug tariff – are decided by Westminster for pharmacies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said earlier this year that the agency is suffering under budgets that fall far short of what’s needed to support its ambitions.

Jason Zaremski, a sports medicine physician at the University of Florida, says the technique is “legit, the real thing.”