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• Soak it up: everything science taught us about health and wellness in 2025

  28-12-2025 07:00
  Do hot baths improve endurance? Will creatine bolster your brain power? Does pickle juice prevent cramp? Here’s what we learned about living well this yearThe best advice for living a healthy, well-adjusted life – eat your vegetables, get a good night’s sleep, politely decline when the Jägerbombs appear – never really changes. Other nuggets, such as how much protein you should be eating or how to maximise workouts, seem to change every year. But as we wonder whether
  
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• Doctor shares 'exact number' of drinks that cause a hangover

  28-12-2025 06:23 via express.co.uk
  This time of year is known for being particularly boozy
  
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• How strutting your stuff to ABBA's Dancing Queen could help boost your heart health

  28-12-2025 02:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found that dancing to the track, which is about 100 beats per minute, results in a healthier heart rate than faster songs of 140bpm, such as Michael Jackson's Beat It.
  
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• Patients set to benefit from new tech that can diagnose complex eye conditions and could slash waiting lists

  28-12-2025 02:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'revolutionary' diagnostic tool, which can identify conditions such as cataracts, can be performed remotely meaning that patients receive consistently high-quality care.
  
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• How to stop being overwhelmed by life. From turning anxiety to energy to crushing imposter syndrome, a new book by BBC psychology expert CLAUDIA HAMMOND will change YOUR life

  28-12-2025 02:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Are you dreading going back to work after the festive break? Do you worry about burnout, or feel overwhelmed by stress? You are not alone.
  
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• No more nasal drip! New jab could end misery of a persistent runny nose

  28-12-2025 02:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Treatments known as biologics - which work by switching off the immune system reaction that drives inflammation - are on the cusp of wider use for patients with severe chronic rhinosinusitis.
  
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• My father, grandfather and uncle all got dementia...here's how I plan to outsmart the disease that has stalked my family

  28-12-2025 02:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Retired London banker Valentine Furniss, 87, no longer understands that Henry is his son, or even a close family member amid his battle with vascular dementia.
  
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• Named and shamed, Britain's filthiest takeaways: Staggering one in 17 fail food hygiene ratings, analysis shows... so is YOUR favourite one of them?

  27-12-2025 14:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Daily Mail audit of Food Standards Agency (FSA) hygiene ratings revealed 3,600 outlets were so dirty they failed inspection.
  
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• Experts pinpoint FIVE types of narcissist... how many are causing havoc and heartbreak in YOUR life?

  27-12-2025 14:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leading psychology experts have revealed the five types of narcissists that you may have encountered.
  
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• I'm a professional death escapologist and, yes, you can die from botox, too much water and eating POTATOES

  27-12-2025 13:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some of the most common ways Americans meet their death are avoidable. So before you reach for a Tylenol, drink a glass of water, or buy a bunch of flowers, consider the risks - it could save your life.
  
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• Five ways to slash cholesterol by a third WITHOUT statins. DR KIRSTYN NORMAN's tweaks work in as little as three months, protect against strokes and heart attacks, are drug-free - and change her patients' lives

  27-12-2025 13:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As a doctor, I spent years caring for older patients whose lives were shaped by health problems that had quietly developed decades earlier.
  
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• I know finding a lump in your breast is so scary, says DR ELLIE, but so many are just harmless cysts. This is the truth about if they'll turn into cancer... and what you should do next

  27-12-2025 13:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After finding lumps in my breast, they were diagnosed as breast cysts. The GP said they were harmless, but I'm worried - am I more likely to get cancer?
  
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• NHS warns Brits told to do four things if they have flu symptoms

  27-12-2025 12:50 via express.co.uk
  This winter virus can cause serious illness in vulnerable people.
  
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• Clare Bailey Mosley: ‘What single thing would improve the quality of my life? Michael’

  27-12-2025 11:00
  The doctor and writer on getting drunk aged three, a very fancy garden chair, and her habit of sleepwalkingBorn in Singapore, Clare Bailey Mosley, 64, studied at the Royal Free Medical School where she met Michael Mosley: they married in 1987. She worked as a GP until she retired in 2022. She wrote the companion recipe books to her husband’s The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, The Clever Guts Diet and The Fast 800. Since his death in 2024, she has established the Michael Mosley Memorial
  
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• A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot

  27-12-2025 09:00
  From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times Looking back on this crazy year, one event, right at the start, seems to me to encapsulate the whole. In January, recording his podcast in a studio in Austin, Texas, the host, Joe Rogan, and the actor Mel Gibson merrily dissed climate science. At the same time, about 1,200 miles away in California, Gibson’s $14m home was being incinerated in the Palisade
  
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• Tim Spector's 10-minute cooking tip to boost your health in 2026

  27-12-2025 06:01 via express.co.uk
  Professor Tim Spector is one of the founders of the ZOE diet app
  
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• People are only just learning why we say achoo when we sneeze

  27-12-2025 05:00 via express.co.uk
  The sound is the onomatopoeia for a sneeze, imitating the sound
  
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• Symptoms that mean people taking common pill need to see GP now

  27-12-2025 04:00 via express.co.uk
  The pill is commonly-prescribed on the NHS, but certain side effects mean you need medical attention
  
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• Hope that 'life-changing' treatment for Alzheimer's could be just five to 10 years away

  27-12-2025 03:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Speaking on the Today programme on Fridayscientists said advances in dementia research mean the disease could ultimately be treated, prevented and potentially cured.
  
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• Clever sleep hack will make you fall asleep in minutes and it's so easy

  27-12-2025 03:02 via express.co.uk
  A woman shared an easy technique she uses before bed and said it works "like magic" to help her fall asleep in a matter of minutes.
  
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• Breast cancer death rates plummet to new low in UK thanks to early diagnosis and better treatments

  26-12-2025 22:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Deaths from the disease fell by 41 per cent between the 1970s and 2023, and by 16 per cent over the past ten years alone.
  
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• ‘The NHS would collapse within hours’: BME staff say Britain fails to appreciate their roles

  26-12-2025 21:00
  Long-serving workers say they faced racism as they helped build health service – but it ‘seems things have got worse’Foreign medics are shunning the NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor“I am fed up of being called names. I know I am Black. I was born Black. And I love being Black. So tell me something I don’t know.”Those words, uttered 50 years ago as a young nurse facing regular racial abuse from patients on a London hospital ward, were a tur
  
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• Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor

  26-12-2025 21:00
  Exclusive: UK an ‘unwelcoming, racist’ country for overseas health workers, according to medical colleges leader‘The NHS would collapse within hours’: BME staff say Britain fails to appreciate their rolesForeign doctors and nurses are increasingly shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric and rising racism have created “a hostile environment”, the leader of Britain’s medics has warned.The health service is being put at risk because overseas health p
  
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• I run over 20 miles a week in the winter. Here's everything I wear to stay warm

  26-12-2025 19:47
  A winter run can leave you feeling invigorated – as long as you don’t neglect layering up against the coldSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsMy middle school experience was hard in all the familiar ways: friendship breakups, tween insecurities and the classic diary entries that “nobody could possibly understand me”. One silver lining, though? When I joined my school’s cross-country team and fell in love with running
  
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• Pain killer taken by millions linked to deadly heart conditions, study finds

  26-12-2025 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Danish researchers conducted a review of previous clinical trials and found the drug provides minimal pain relief while more than doubling a patient's overall risk of deadly cardiac effects.
  
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• I became anxious and tired all the time... I blamed my busy life but it was something far more sinister

  26-12-2025 18:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When exhaustion and anxiety began plaguing Rachel Christensen's daily life, she assumed it was just her busy lifestyle. But tests revealed a diagnosis that was much more sinister than she thought.
  
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• How are you? A brief question with an abundance of answers | Letters

  26-12-2025 17:58
  Readers share a range of responses to one of the commonest greetings in the English languageMy late father-in-law, who lived to be 104 and was a veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation and the north Africa war, would inevitably respond to the question “How are you?” (Letters, 23 December) with an enigmatic “Surviving. That’s the name of the game.” The dialogue is now used regularly by members of the family in fond memory of his fortitude.
  Ray Woodhams
  Cawthorne, Sout
  
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• The perfect morning routine: how to build a happy, healthy start to the day – from showers to sunshine

  26-12-2025 17:00
  You don’t have to wake at 5am or commit to hardcore exercise. But by working out a handful of habits that suit you, and introducing them slowly, you can change your life• Sign up here to get the whole series straight to your inboxThe first thing to say about the ideal morning routine is that it probably doesn’t exist. Yes, endless influencers promise that they have tweaked, tested and fine-tuned the process of revving up for the day, but how history’s most productive peopl
  
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• Fake Boots weight-loss ads using AI 'health workers' pulled after scam alert

  26-12-2025 16:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The account had been running ads for prescription-only slimming drugs, falsely appearing to show Boots health professionals smiling and promoting the products.
  
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• The disgusting reason why you should NEVER leave dishes soaking in the sink overnight: 'Pool of harmful bacteria'

  26-12-2025 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Whilst most of us start cooking with the intention of cleaning up as we go - many will have left dirty dishes to soak overnight in the sink this Christmas, encouraging the reproduction of bacteria.
  
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• Top doctor reveals SIX ways to live like 'immortal' biohacker Bryan Johnson... without spending a cent

  26-12-2025 16:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stanford-trained physician Dr Shad Marvasti, an internal medicine doctor in Arizona, has revealed his six top tips for staying healthy.
  
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• Fat jabs could slow the spread of prostate cancer and improve the effectiveness of treatment, scientists believe

  26-12-2025 15:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers will test the drugs against the disease after finding prostate cancer cells were more likely to duplicate and spread after being exposed to fat.
  
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• GP issues Brussels sprout warning for those dealing with common condition

  26-12-2025 15:49 via express.co.uk
  Around one in five people in the UK are affected by irritable bowel syndrome , and Christmas dinner can be challenging for those with the condition.
  
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• I suffered from one of the rarest diseases in the world... only 50 people have ever been diagnosed with it

  26-12-2025 15:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An unidentified man from Ireland with confusion and signs of a brain injury actually had an extremely rare condition that has been diagnosed in just 50 people over the past century.
  
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• I was eating 4,300 calories a day. Then I dropped 100lbs WITHOUT Ozempic after adopting a simple 20-minute habit

  26-12-2025 15:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When Tina Bogart, 28, hit her heaviest weight of294lbs she feared she was beyond help. Then the mom-of-two made one small change to her routine that saw the pounds melt away...
  
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• Overwhelmed by leftovers? These five healthy recipes will give new life to Brussels sprouts, potatoes, stuffing and turkey... and all you'll need are a few store cupboard staples

  26-12-2025 13:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For many people, the REAL festive feast is on Boxing Day, when you're free to pick at the leftovers.
  
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• I was catapulted out of my body into heaven after I flatlined during surgery. When I returned there was no trace of my cancer

  26-12-2025 13:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rosemary Thornton, an author living in the Midwest, suffered a near-death experience (NDE) while undergoing cervical cancer surgery. What followed left her stunned.
  
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• The pioneering light boxes helping Orkney islanders avoid seasonal affective disorder

  26-12-2025 13:00
  Wintering Well boxes to counter effects of low light on mental health are ‘super popular’, says island librarian“Boxes of light” are being used to help people who struggle with low winter mood while living in one of Scotland’s darkest communities as part of a wider research initiative to support the million-plus sufferers of seasonal affective disorder across Britain.Residents of the Orkney Islands have been able to borrow a Wintering Well Box from their library sin
  
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• Pig organ transplants could one day be superior to human ones, says expert

  26-12-2025 13:00
  Surgeon leading xenotransplantation trial aimed at solving shortage of human organs says edits can lessen risk of rejectionA leading surgeon behind a clinical trial of transplanting pig kidneys into living humans has said they could one day be superior to those from human donors.Dr Robert Montgomery, the director of NYU Langone’s Transplant Institute, said the first transplant of the trial had already been carried out, with another expected to take place in January. Six patients are initia
  
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• Liking other women's social media posts grounds for divorce, court rules - as 'micro-cheating' sparks festive rows

  26-12-2025 12:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The behaviour violated legal obligation of loyalty within marriage, lawyers argued, demanding financial compensation.
  
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• NHS alert as people taking certain medication may need to contact GP ‘urgently’

  26-12-2025 12:31 via express.co.uk
  The common medication may cause health complications to certain people.
  
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• NHS urges Brits to throw leftover turkey out on exact date to avoid food poisoning

  26-12-2025 12:02 via express.co.uk
  If you cooked turkey on Christmas Day, the NHS has revealed the date you should dispose of it if you haven't used it or frozen it already.
  
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• Exactly how long you can keep leftover turkey, according to food safety experts

  26-12-2025 11:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tucking into Christmas leftovers after Boxing Day could make you seriously ill, food safety chiefs have warned.
  
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• Life-changing dementia treatment 'within five years' - cure possible, experts announce

  26-12-2025 10:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British researchers say a cure for Alzheimer's disease could one day be possible, with experts suggesting truly life-changing treatments may emerge within the next five to ten years.
  
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• Fertility experts pinpoint exactly how long a man should abstain from ejaculating to maximise chances of conception - any longer and success rates drop

  26-12-2025 10:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Previous research has suggested that sperm quality has dropped by half over the past 50 to 70 years, meaning more people than ever are reliant on medical help to fall pregnant.
  
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• The hill I will die on: Washing-up bowls are horrible and should be banned | Jason Hazeley

  26-12-2025 09:00
  These unhygienic, offensive lumps of plastic do everything the sink does, and less. It’s time to get ridWhen I was a kid, our TV was in a television cabinet. For those unfamiliar with this preposterous abomination, it was a box on legs into which the TV was placed to hide it. It was some sort of furniture hangover from the era of covering a piano’s ankles lest they cause lustful sweats to break out under the starched collars of young gentlemen.The trouble is, a two-doored, TV-shaped-
  
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• Asian women in England almost twice as likely to suffer severe childbirth tears

  26-12-2025 09:00
  Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data shows rates of most serious tears are nearly double those for white and black womenAsian women in England are almost twice as likely to suffer the most severe birth injuries during labour, with many healthcare professionals unaware of this greater risk, analysis has found.Third- and fourth-degree tears, also known as obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI), are the most severe forms of vaginal tearing during childbirth. Continue reading...
  
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• Light therapy boxes placed in all NI libraries

  26-12-2025 08:10 via bbc.com
  Some of the lamps - which are often used for Seasonal Affective Disorder - are available to loan for up to three weeks.
  
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• Tasty snacks that may slash cholesterol and prevent heart attacks

  26-12-2025 04:48 via express.co.uk
  Eating more of these foods could help protect your heart and circulatory system.
  
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• Who were the Three Wise Men? New research rewrites the mystery of the Bible's magi

  26-12-2025 04:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Three Wise Men in biblical texts may have finally been revealed, and it could rewrite the stories which claimed they were kings from the east.
  
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