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• Zika virus detected in Texas after female catches infection

  28-11-2016 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The state reported its first case of Zika likely transmitted by a mosquito on Monday after lab results confirmed their suspicions. The patient is a woman near the Mexico border.
  
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• Expert reveals 10 quick and healthy ways to spice up your lunch break

  28-11-2016 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There is no reason packed lunches need to be boring. From a mackerel and beetroot salad to a home made sweet potato hummus, Northampton dietitian Sian Porter gives you the tastiest recipes.
  
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• How that dreadful cold could actually be a SKIN INFECTION like cellulitis

  28-11-2016 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mark Palmer from South-West London caught what he  thought was a head cold while on holiday. Instead it turned out to be a nasty cellulitis infection in his leg, which eventually could have killed him.
  
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• When IS the right time to tell your children you have a life-changing disease?

  28-11-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sarah Webb from South-West London tries hard to keep a smile on her face for her boys, but has suffered tremors and exhaustion for more than six years. She was diagnosed at 40.
  
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• Bad News: Your Aloe Vera Might Not Actually Contain Any Aloe Vera

  28-11-2016 23:25
  
  Um, what?!
  
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• How to get Gwyneth Paltrow's toned shoulders 

  28-11-2016 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 44-year-old actress from Los Angeles showed off a toned shoulder in a single-sleeved dress at a recent New York gala. As exercise she mainly focuses on fast-moving, dance-based routines.
  
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• Monty Panesar takes our health quiz

  28-11-2016 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former England bowler Monty Panesar reveals his struggle with anxiety and depression and how he overcame it. A sports coach and hypnotherapist helped him get back on his feet.
  
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• Can a jab of stem cells repair damage caused by a heart attack? Owen was told he could never get better, then the pioneering treatment changed his life forever

  28-11-2016 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Owen Palmer, 54, a father of four and a software manager from South-East London, became one of the first to try the new treatment, which involved a small cup of stem cells from his bone marrow.
  
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• 'What can I do about my severe stomach cramps?' Our expert advises a 30-year-old who has been diagnosed with a stomach condition normally found in pensioners

  28-11-2016 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While Ruben Rodriguez consults Dr Scurr about his unusual stomach condition, John Cassie from Edinburgh has developed scarring in his lungs after being treated for arthritis in his knee.
  
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• The most important meal of the day? How bacon lobbyists and religion created breakfast as we know it

  28-11-2016 23:05
  
  We’ve tied all sorts of ills to a failure to sit down to a hearty breakfast. But research and history show that skipping our granola bowl does not, in fact, harm our healthUntil very recently, common wisdom held that breakfast was the most important meal of the day. We’ve anecdotally tied all sorts of ills to a failure to sit down to a “complete breakfast.” But health research has proven that skipping that fried egg or bowl of cereal does not, in fact, lead to weight gain
  
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• How lobbyists made breakfast 'the most important meal of the day'

  28-11-2016 23:05
  
  We’ve tied all sorts of ills to a failure to sit down to a hearty breakfast. But research and history show that skipping our granola bowl does not, in fact, harm our healthUntil very recently, common wisdom held that breakfast was the most important meal of the day. We’ve anecdotally tied all sorts of ills to a failure to sit down to a “complete breakfast.” But health research has proven that skipping that fried egg or bowl of cereal does not, in fact, lead to weight gain
  
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• 5 Power Foods That’ll Help You Lose Weight Without Even Trying

  28-11-2016 22:58
  
  Put these power foods on your plate and work your way towards your weight-loss goals.
  
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• Can We All Stop Pretending Surprise Proposals Are the Best?

  28-11-2016 22:56
  
  3 women explain why theirs were actually awkward AF.
  
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• Zika hits Texas, officals confirm: Woman near the Mexican border becomes first person in the state to get the infection from a local mosquito

  28-11-2016 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The state reported its first case of Zika likely transmitted by a mosquito on Monday after lab results confirmed their suspicions. The patient is a woman near the Mexico border.
  
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• Texas announces its first locally transmitted Zika case

  28-11-2016 21:49
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas health officials are reporting the first case of the Zika virus that was likely transmitted within the state.
  
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• Study reveals the widespread damage a late night does to children's brains

  28-11-2016 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study by the University Hospital of Zurich has laid bare the staggering damage sleeplessness inflicts on all parts of a child's developing brain - not just the frontal regions.
  
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• Teen Accidently Drops Over $700 at Sephora, Living Out All of Our Worst Shopping Fears

  28-11-2016 21:22
  
  We feel like this could so be us.
  
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• Teen Accidentally Drops Over $700 at Sephora, Living Out All of Our Worst Shopping Fears

  28-11-2016 21:22
  
  We feel like this could so be us.
  
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• Babies, skeletons and forex found as human trafficking probe widens in India

  28-11-2016 21:15
  By Subrata Nagchoudhury KOLKATA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police in eastern India have rescued 13 babies and discovered the skeletons of two infants in raids on homes for the elderly and mentally disabled, as a probe into a suspected international human trafficking ring widened on Monday. Ten infants, all under one year old, were found on Friday in a home for the mentally disabled run by a charity in the impoverished district of South 24 Parganas in West Bengal. While in another raid in the
  
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• Hormonal link between liver and brain could help new treatments for problem drinkers

  28-11-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A HORMONAL link between the liver and brain that regulates alcohol consumption may help scientists develop new treatments for problem drinkers, according to new research.
  
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• Is THIS the booze gene? DNA linked to sugar cravings also leads to binge drinking, study finds

  28-11-2016 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The gene, called Beta-Klotho, is activated in the brain by a hormone produced in the liver, researchers from King' s College London found.
  
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• 7 Tips for Crushing the Whole30 Diet From the Woman Who Invented It

  28-11-2016 20:16
  
  These tips are gold if you want to rock the Whole30—or just make your diet healthier in general.
  
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• 'Cold does kill': plunging UK temperatures prompt health warning

  28-11-2016 20:03
  
  With a forecast of frost and temperatures dropping to -4C, Public Health England advises people to prepare for the coldLow temperatures heralding the arrival of winter have prompted health officials to warn that cold weather can be fatal.A widespread frost is expected and a new survey of highways bosses shows that councils have stockpiled 1.2 million tonnes of salt to prepare for the months ahead. Continue reading...
  
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• Don't let yourself go in middle age: Health between 45 and 55 is the key to preventing heart failure

  28-11-2016 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Men at age 45 without hypertension and diabetes lived an average of 10.6 years longer while women had 14.9 years extra, researchers from the American College of Cardiology found.
  
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• Man, 57, suffered stroke 15 minutes after finishing an energy drink

  28-11-2016 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 57-year-old, from Alabama, was hospitalized feeling shaky, with tingling and numbness in his right arm and leg. A CT scan revealed he had suffered a small but life-threatening brain hemorrhage.
  
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• 4 Women Open Up About What It’s Really Like to Sleep with Your Ex-Husband

  28-11-2016 19:25
  
  Old (bedroom) habits die hard.
  
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• Music shone through my wife’s Alzheimer’s | Letters

  28-11-2016 19:23
  
  Laura Barton’s description of Hannah Peel’s relationship with her gran through music (Waking moments, G2, 23 November) brought back so many memories of my wife’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. Denise died last year having struggled with Alzheimer’s for five years. She had been a music teacher and church organist in her early life but, even though I was able to care for her at home until the end, her memory and recognition failed early on in the disease. However, even wh
  
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• Woman suffers rare side effect from fertility treatment that led to a stroke

  28-11-2016 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Emma Raven, from Netherton, Liverpool, has been left with balance problems, eyesight difficulties and struggles to hear as a result of her stroke - which doctors say was caused by IVF.
  
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• Marijuana users 'have abnormally low blood flow in every part of the brain'

  28-11-2016 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sophisticated imaging of 1,000 cannabis users' brains found all of them had widespread restrictions or build-ups of blood flow.
  
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• Runner with terminal lung disease completes marathon in 11 hours towing oxygen tank all the way

  28-11-2016 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite his doctor's protestations, Evans Wilson, 62, walked the entire 26.2-mile race on Sunday, finishing in just under 11 hours.
  
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• NHS hospitals are cashing in on posting adverts for no win no fee personal injury lawyers 

  28-11-2016 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some trusts are paid up to£200,000 a year to display adverts on their leaflets. But NHS guidelines state they 'should not consider advertising personal injury or claims management services'.
  
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• Poor pensioners exercise less than their rich counterparts because gym's 'are too expensive'

  28-11-2016 16:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One in five of Britons aged over 65 with a household income of above £50,000 exercise for at least seven hours each week, while a quarter of those earning less than £20,000 don't do any, a survey found.
  
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• 5 Foods That Secretly Contain a Scary Amount of Salt

  28-11-2016 16:30
  
  You'll never look at your cereal boxes the same way again.
  
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• 'We paid £6,000 for IVF add-ons'

  28-11-2016 15:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Frankie Bailey-Wheeler and Tom Wheeler tell Victoria Derbyshire how they paid thousands of pounds for fertility treatments to boost IVF success rates.
  
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• 9 Women Share the Best and Worst Fitness Advice They've Ever Gotten

  28-11-2016 15:30
  
  Uh, yeah, about that whole "no pain, no gain" mantra...
  
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• New mobile phone system 'mBirth' registers Tanzania's invisible children

  28-11-2016 15:21
  By Kizito Makoye NJOMBE, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At Lunyanywi village in Tanzania's southern highlands, local residents gather to welcome a new member of their community. Antonia Kisena and her husband Moses are celebrating the birth of a baby boy they have named Arnold with drumming, food and a specially prepared local brew. Everything was captured by a mobile phone and the document was issued instantly," she said.
  
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• Man with lung disease finishes marathon towing oxygen tank

  28-11-2016 15:05
  SEATTLE (AP) — A man with a terminal lung disease has completed the Seattle Marathon while towing his oxygen tank.
  
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• 'Different treatment' for sepsis depending on hospital

  28-11-2016 15:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A killer condition linked to 1,500 deaths every year in Wales is not always being treated in the same way in Welsh hospitals, new research claims.
  
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• Mother spares son from inheriting defective cancer gene through pioneering IVF technique

  28-11-2016 14:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Danielle Taggar, from Blaby, Leicestershire, conceived Noah Bradshaw through a groundbreaking IVF technique, which involved screening the embryo first.
  
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• Baby wakes from coma after father fought French doctors to keep on life support 

  28-11-2016 14:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Marwa has been in an induced coma at La Timone hospital, Marseille, since September after battling a virus. Doctors wanted to turn her machine off after saying she wouldn't live normally.
  
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• Burnley primary school pupils in e-cigarettes exclusion warning

  28-11-2016 14:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Children found with e-cigarettes face exclusion, the head teacher of their primary school tells parents.
  
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• Bingeing at Christmas could make you gain two stone in three days says new study

  28-11-2016 14:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The average Brit will consume an extra 2,410 calories every day over Christmas, according to a new study. A nutritionist says that could mean you could put on two pounds in just three days.
  
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• Actelion's ambitious independent-minded CEO will drive up takeover price

  28-11-2016 13:45
  By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Actelion Chief Executive Jean-Paul Clozel's desire to keep Europe's biggest biotech company independent after building it from scratch, means Johnson & Johnson will have to pay a steep premium if a takeover is to succeed. The U.S. healthcare titan on Friday confirmed talks with the Swiss maker of medicines for deadly pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). While Actelion confirmed the courtship, it said there was no guarantee of a deal.
  
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• No win, no fee adverts 'common on NHS advice cards'

  28-11-2016 13:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  No win, no fee adverts are appearing widely on NHS patient advice leaflets, marketing companies say.
  
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• NSW expert reveals why people wake up with an erection

  28-11-2016 12:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sergio Diez Alvarez, a director of medicine based in New South Wales, Australia, says the reason for a morning erection is likely to be the unconscious sensation of a full bladder.
  
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• Thirsty Somalis trek 60 km for water as drought and conflict bite

  28-11-2016 12:31
  By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A second poor rainy season in Somalia has pushed livestock herders in the drought-hit Puntland region to trek an average of 60 km (40 miles) to fetch drinking water, aid agencies said on Monday, calling for rapid action to prevent renewed famine. Five million Somalis, or more than four out of ten people, do not have enough to eat because of poor rains and fighting between the Islamist militant group al Shabaab and Somalia's African Union-back
  
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• What are your experiences of IVF?

  28-11-2016 12:00
  
  Research for BBC Panorama finds add-on treatments to aid IVF are not backed up by science. Have you paid extra for these treatments? Share your story
  There is no evidence that many add-on treatments offered to aid IVF (in vitro fertilisation) actually work, a study has revealed.Research conducted by Oxford University’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine for the BBC’s Panorama found nearly all of these treatments were not backed up by good scientific evidence of success. Continue read
  
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• Former NHS director sues Jeremy Hunt for religious discrimination

  28-11-2016 11:56
  
  Richard Page, suspended after LGBT staff complaint, claims he was barred from applying for other jobs because of Christian viewsA former director of an NHS trust is suing Jeremy Hunt for religious discrimination after he was effectively barred from applying for positions following his public opposition to gay adoption.Richard Page has lodged a claim at the employment tribunal, saying his televised comments in 2015 that it was in the best interests of a child to have a mother and father stemmed f
  
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• Beauty therapist almost dies after developing a deadly form of a common skin condition

  28-11-2016 11:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bryony Bateman, 21, from St Neots, Cambridgeshire, developed erythrodermic psoriasis after having a skin infection. It took over 98 per cent of her skin as doctors battled to keep her alive.
  
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• 'Record number' of prison suicides in England and Wales

  28-11-2016 11:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A charity says there have been 102 suicides so far this year - the highest since its records began.
  
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