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• Why women are most vulnerable to cigarette-related cancer - even if they've never smoked 

  09-12-2016 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seven percent of never-smoking older African American women and 5.2 percent of White older women have COPD. In comparison, just 2.9 percent of never-smoking older white men.
  
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• Pioneering 90-minute operation that could be a British cure for DVT: How doctors are using mesh from NASA to create space in patients' veins 

  09-12-2016 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 60,000 Britons a year develop DVT - a blood clot which causes dangerous swelling. Until now, there has been no real treatment. But a new treatment in the UK has shown remarkable results.
  
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• 8 Thoughts Every Guy Has During Missionary Position

  09-12-2016 22:58
  
  "Is my eye contact strategy starting to get weird?"
  
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• Florida declared Zika-free - hours before Texas reports 4 local cases 

  09-12-2016 22:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gov. Rick Scott announced today that the popular tourist destination had been cleared of active Zika transmission. However, within hours, Texas reported another four local Zika cases.
  
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• Gigi Hadid Has Hashimoto’s Disease—Here’s What You Need to Know

  09-12-2016 21:43
  
  The model says it's thrown her metabolism completely out of whack.
  
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• The Best Cheap Workout Equipment, According to Fitness Instructors

  09-12-2016 21:27
  
  Get biceps, not bills.
  
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• Contenders for senior jobs in Trump's administration

  09-12-2016 20:35
  (Reuters) - The following are people mentioned as contenders for senior roles as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump works to form his administration before taking office on Jan. 20, according to Reuters sources and media reports. Trump has already named a number of people for other top jobs in his administration. SECRETARY OF STATE * Mitt Romney, 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor * Rudy Giuliani, Republican former mayor of New York City * Bob Corker, Republica
  
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• The 4 Types of Blazers Every Woman Should Own

  09-12-2016 20:33
  
  They’re definitely not all for work.
  
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• Mother of One Direction singer Tomlinson dies from cancer

  09-12-2016 20:32
  LONDON (Reuters) - One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson's mother has died from an aggressive form of leukaemia, her family said on Friday. Johannah Deakin, 43, who worked as a midwife and had seven children, died on Wednesday in hospital in Sheffield, where she had been since May after being diagnosed with the cancer. Tomlinson, Deakin's oldest child, is scheduled to perform at the final of British television singing contest "The X Factor" at the weekend, British media reported. ...
  
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• New CDC data understate accidental shooting deaths of kids

  09-12-2016 20:22
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Government statistics released this week claiming that 77 minors in the U.S. were killed by unintentional gun discharges last year significantly understate the scope of an enduring public health problem.
  
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• America's overdose epidemic shown in chilling interactive map

  09-12-2016 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Overdose deaths have increased 137 percent since 2000. This interactive map, using CDC statistics, puts the staggering epidemic into context.
  
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• 4 more likely homegrown Zika cases found in Texas

  09-12-2016 20:05
  DALLAS (AP) — State officials have announced four more cases of Zika that are believed to have been transmitted in Texas, almost two weeks after announcing the first such case.
  
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• 'I Was Considering Weight-Loss Surgery Before I Tried this Workout and Lost 75 Pounds’

  09-12-2016 19:44
  
  Sarah Hancock thought she was out of options.
  
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• French presidential frontrunner Fillon under pressure over healthcare

  09-12-2016 19:22
  By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - French Socialist would-be presidential candidate Manuel Valls on Friday criticised conservative rival Francois Fillon's proposals to slash public payroll and health spending, saying they threatened the foundations of a welfare state dear to voters. Valls' salvo came on the heels of an opinion poll showing 90 percent of people opposed to cutting spending on public healthcare - a Fillon proposal that is raising concern even in his own party, the centre-right Les Rep
  
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• Heroin now kills more people than guns as drugs overdoses claim 50,000 lives in US last year 

  09-12-2016 19:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the highest figure ever and a sure sign that the 'war on drugs' is being lost.
  
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• These Flavor-Packed Veggie Dishes Totally Beat Steamed Broccoli

  09-12-2016 18:28
  
  Straight from the folks behind the Thug Kitchen blog.
  
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• Officials: South Beach halts Zika's spread, but risks remain

  09-12-2016 18:24
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida's governor and tourism officials are declaring victory over Zika in South Beach. But the virus remains a risk in Miami-Dade County.
  
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• Generation snowflake is not failing us: we’re failing them | Deborah Orr

  09-12-2016 18:24
  
  New figures reveal an alarming rise in self-harm among the young. It’s little wonder in a highly pressured world that places such value on competitionA healthy society, surely, is one that helps its children feel safe and secure. If this were a banal proposition, it wouldn’t even have to be stated. Yet there are plenty of people who would contend that it’s not up to society to make kids feel safe. That, they will announce with tremendous self-satisfaction, is the job of their&n
  
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• 6 Kick-Ass Body Positivity Moments of 2016

  09-12-2016 18:15
  
  YAS QUEENS!
  
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• Blake Lively Is Using a Gluten-Free, Low-FODMAPs Delivery Service to Lose Weight

  09-12-2016 18:08
  
  Should you try it, too?
  
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• Lucy Pasha-Robinson was given an induced menopause at 25

  09-12-2016 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Journalist Lucy Pasha-Robinson suffered with endometriosis, a disease where cells like those in the womb appear elsewhere in a woman's body.
  
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• GOP's 'Obamacare' repeal path worries health care industry

  09-12-2016 18:02
  
  One by one, key health care industry groups are telling the incoming Republican administration and Congress that it's not a good idea to repeal the 2010 health care law without clear plans to address the ...
  
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• Kanye West, newly blond, resurfaces in LA after mystery hospital stay

  09-12-2016 17:52
  (Reuters) - Kanye West, sporting a new blond look, has surfaced for the first time since spending more than a week in a psychiatric hospital. The "Jesus Walks" rapper was photographed visiting a furniture exhibition at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood on Thursday. An Instagram snap of the 39 year-old musician, posted by Italian artist Giovanni Bassan, showed him sitting alone on a wooden chair with a blond hairstyle, wearing a gray sweatshirt, dark pants and white trainers.
  
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• Colombia Zika outbreak: microcephaly cases four times higher this year

  09-12-2016 17:43
  
  Report shows sharp increase in rates of the rare birth defect over last year in Colombia, where Zika infected 20,000 pregnant women since October 2015Cases of microcephaly in Colombia were four times higher this year than last, an increase that coincides with a widespread outbreak of the Zika virus in the country, according to a report released on Friday.At its peak in July, microcephaly cases in Colombia were nine times higher than in the same month in 2015, according to the US Centers for Dise
  
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• Former soldier, 51, left fighting for his life in a coma and needing a kidney transplant after catching a deadly infection from his DOG licking him

  09-12-2016 17:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Money, 51, from Manchester, developed sepsis after his immune system went into overdrive as it tried to fight the capnocytophaga - found in dogs' saliva.
  
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• How much can you REALLY change your body shape with exercise? You can't - unless you follow these tips...

  09-12-2016 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Julie Netto, an occupational therapist at Curtin University, explains the limits of our muscles and bones, and how to work around them.
  
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• 'It could be any of these men': how we learned to take stalking seriously

  09-12-2016 17:05
  
  Of the 1.1m people stalked in the UK each year, only a thousand or so see their cases prosecuted. As the home secretary takes steps to start filling that gap, victims explain why ‘wait and see what happens’ is no longer good enough Related: Amber Rudd to introduce asbo-style bans for stalkers About five years after the first emails arrived, the death threats started. When Sarah first began receiving messages from a man expressing a romantic interest, she shrugged them off. “I d
  
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• Danish researchers find vegetarian fiber-filled meals help you lose weight

  09-12-2016 16:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Danish scientists fed a group of men either fiber-rich vegetarian patties or protein-heavy veal and pork patties. They found those who ate legumes at 12 percent fewer calories at their next meal.
  
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• NHS paramedics to get pay rises of at least £4,400

  09-12-2016 16:45
  
  About 12,000 workers, including ambulance crews, will move up pay scale with starting salary increasing to £26,302Paramedics are set for pay rises worth at least £4,400 after the Department of Health and NHS Employers accepted trade unions’ concerns that their members were not being paid properly for their life-saving work.About 12,000 of the health workers – who are trained in emergency medical care and first aid, but not to the level of a qualified doctor – will b
  
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• Date nights really ARE more fun when they are spontaneous

  09-12-2016 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scheduling leisure time activities too strictly can turn them into chores, a study has found. Researchers from Ohio State University found that people enjoy 'roughly planned' events more (stock image).
  
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• Focusing on Bella Hadid's favorite food group protein can have benefits

  09-12-2016 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 20-year-old US model said in preparation for her Victoria's Secret show debut she ate 'a lot of protein'. But experts warn too much of it could lead to side effects such as bloating and constipation.
  
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• Florida Gov. Scott lifts Zika infection zone in Miami Beach

  09-12-2016 16:37
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida's governor says South Beach is no longer an active infection zone for the Zika virus.
  
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• Back pain CURE: Tips to ease excruciating symptoms triggered by SLEEP

  09-12-2016 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BACK pain and neck pain affects hundreds of people - most commonly those between the ages of 45 and 54. However, those hit hardest often find their aches and sometimes excruciating pains are triggered by sleep.
  
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• And the Most Fertile Day of the Year Is…

  09-12-2016 16:16
  
  It's either go time or condom time.
  
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• This Is the Move You Should Try When You’re Sick of Squats

  09-12-2016 16:15
  
  Your butt will beg for mercy.
  
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• 12 foods which will improve your skin and get rid of spots

  09-12-2016 16:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  We've rounded up 12 foods which will improve your skin and get rid of spots. Avocados make you look youthful and fats in coconut fills cracks in the skin. Dark chocolate can also help, surprisingly.
  
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• South African motor bike crash victim found alive in morgue

  09-12-2016 15:58
  The next morning, however, mortuary staff detected a pulse and breathing and rushed him to hospital, where doctors and nurses managed to resuscitate and warm him, but he later died, according to a health department official. "The passing away of any individual is a painful experience," a provincial health department statement said.
  
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• How you can EAT your way to glowing, clear skin (and yes, you can still have chocolate!)

  09-12-2016 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  We've rounded up 12 foods which will improve your skin and get rid of spots. Avocados make you look youthful and fats in coconut fills cracks in the skin. Dark chocolate can also help, surprisingly.
  
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• Women wrongly stop taking breast cancer drug Tamoxifen because of 'side effects'

  09-12-2016 15:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Cancer Research UK study has found that women taking dummy drugs are just as likely to suffer nausea and vomiting as those taking tamoxifen, and are just as likely to stop taking them.
  
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• Breast cancer drug update: Cancer prevention pill Tamoxifen may NOT cause side-effects

  09-12-2016 14:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TAMOXIFEN is a hormone therapy for breast cancer which reduces the risk of the disease coming back after surgery. However, experts have revealed some women are stopping taking the drug because they mistakenly believe it is causing unpleasant side-effects, research has revealed.
  
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• Breast cancer drug: Cancer prevention pill Tamoxifen might NOT cause nasty side-effects

  09-12-2016 14:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TAMOXIFEN is a hormone therapy for breast cancer which reduces the risk of the disease coming back after surgery. However, experts have revealed some women are stopping taking the drug because they mistakenly believe it is causing unpleasant side-effects, research has revealed.
  
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• U.S. Democrats plot uphill fight against some Trump nominations

  09-12-2016 14:12
  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats plan to fight some of President-elect Donald Trump's choices for top administration jobs, but history and the party's minority status in the chamber are not on their side. A simple majority of 51 votes is needed in the 100-member Senate to confirm nominations. Louisiana will select its newest senator on Saturday.
  
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• Ohio 'heartbeat' abortion bill could be test case for overturning Roe v Wade

  09-12-2016 13:30
  
  Just-passed bill stops short of banning abortion from the time a fetus’s heartbeat is detectable and may test the limits of constitutional protections of abortionThe Ohio state legislature threw down the gauntlet this week to the supreme court, passing a new anti-abortion “heartbeat” bill that would ban terminations from as early as six weeks, the most severe restrictions in the country.Ohio politicians say they were motivated to push through the bill by Trump’s win, beli
  
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• Expert reveals the best herbal remedies to battle the cold this winter

  09-12-2016 13:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leading Guernsey-based medical nutritionist Dr Sarah Brewer, and author of Eat Well, Stay Well, reveals which of nature's cold remedies are worth trying – and why.
  
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• Why IRON is an important part of your diet and being deficient could be deadly

  09-12-2016 13:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Natalie Parletta, a dietitian at the University of South Australia, says iron can be found in either haem - meat, poultry and fish - or non-haem forms - legumes, wholegrains and leafy green vegetables.
  
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• Vomiting bug 'at high level this winter'

  09-12-2016 12:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The number of people falling ill with the vomiting bug norovirus in England this winter is at higher than average levels.
  
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• Woman born without a WOMB fundraises to help pay for a surrogate

  09-12-2016 12:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lisa Beavan-Mason, 31, from Ledbury, Hertfordshire, was diagnosed with Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser syndrome when she was 21. She will never be able to carry her own child.
  
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• Why wine REALLY gives you headaches and how you can avoid them

  09-12-2016 12:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tannins, sugar and histamines are the cause of wine headaches, say experts. We share some tips on how best to prevent them, including drinking two cups of coffee before you start on wine.
  
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• The Conversation's interactive body map reveals the true risk of being lazy

  09-12-2016 11:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Choosing not to go for an early morning jog increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by 13 per cent, according to studies collated by two Australian researchers.
  
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• Heart disease and COPD latest: Smoking shisha tobacco ‘as harmful as ten cigarettes’

  09-12-2016 11:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SHISHA tobacco smoking could be putting people at risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease , lung cancer and even developing heart disease, experts have warned.
  
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