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• Unmarried adults are 70% more likely to die from a stroke

  14-12-2016 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts at Duke University in North Carolina, suspect that a key reason married people tend to do better following a stroke is simply because they have someone to look after them.
  
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• Anti-ageing stickers are beauty’s latest fad and in fact some actually WORK

  14-12-2016 23:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Today, stickers impregnated with active skincare ingredients are an increasingly popular way to ensure that vitamins and minerals are absorbed into the skin.
  
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• Are Meal-Replacement Diets as Healthy as They’re Cracked Up to Be?

  14-12-2016 23:39
  
  7 facts you should know before trying one.
  
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• Grifols to buy Hologic's stake in blood screening JV for $1.85 billion

  14-12-2016 23:33
  (Reuters) - Spain's Grifols SA , which develops plasma protein therapies, said it would buy U.S. medical device maker Hologic Inc's interest in their blood screening joint venture for $1.85 billion (1.47 billion pounds) in cash. Grifols, which owns the customer-facing activities of the venture, said the acquired assets comprise a plant in San Diego, California as well as development rights, licenses to patents and access to product manufacturers. The deal, which has been approved by boards of bo
  
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• ‘I Was Diagnosed with a Life-Threatening Blood Disease in College’

  14-12-2016 23:07
  
  “My legs were littered with bruises.”
  
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• GE to sell $3 billion industrial solutions business

  14-12-2016 22:58
  (Reuters) - General Electric Co said on Wednesday it would sell its $3 billion (2.4 billion pounds) industrial solutions business, which makes electrical equipment, as part of a push to focus on its core businesses. The industrial conglomerate expects to raise about $4 billion from the sale of the unit as well as the previously announced sale of its water business, GE said in an investor presentation. (http://invent.ge/2gJLoWW) The industrial solutions business has about 13,000 employees and 30
  
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• This 15-Minute Workout Is Way More Effective Than What You’re Doing Right Now

  14-12-2016 22:57
  
  Enough with the two-minute planks.
  
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• As good as it gets? Boutique banks look to grow beyond M&A

  14-12-2016 22:57
  Boutique investment banks have grabbed a record share of the global merger and acquisition fee pool off larger Wall Street rivals this year but their stock price performance is trailing bigger peers. To diversify their revenues, firms including Rothschild & Co SCA , Lazard Ltd and Evercore Partners Inc are looking for new ways to gin up additional business including advising on raising debt, corporate governance structures and offering research for their clients. M&A levels have slowed a
  
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• ‘I’ve Had Multiple Miscarriages—Here’s What I Wish People Knew About Supporting a Friend Going Through One'

  14-12-2016 22:55
  
  “Many people wanted to help and comfort me, but they didn’t know how.”
  
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• The Workout That’ll Blast Fat and Work That Booty

  14-12-2016 22:54
  No fancy equipment needed.
  
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• Children who use gestures tap into more unique ideas new study finds

  14-12-2016 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Encouraging children to use gestures can boost their creativity, reveals a new study. Experts found gesturing allows children to explore the properties of items, which can trigger ideas for creative uses.
  
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• Could a URINE test for kidney disease also check for dementia? Those with high levels of a protein have a 35% increased risk of memory loss

  14-12-2016 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Maastricht University, the Netherlands, found people with albuminuria in their urine were significantly more likely to develop cognitive impairment than people who did not have it in their urine.
  
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• Women who take paracetamol and ibuprofen risk going deaf

  14-12-2016 21:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As many as one in 20 women suffering partial deafness could blame their painkiller use, a study by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in the US found.
  
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• California twins conjoined at the sternum are reunited for first time after surgery

  14-12-2016 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A touching video released by Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford on Wednesday shows Eva and Erika Sandoval being brought together for the first time six days after surgery.
  
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• 6 Women Share the Easy Meal-Prep Tricks That Helped Them Lose Weight

  14-12-2016 21:29
  
  One woman swears by single-pot meals.
  
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• Birth defects seen in 6 percent of US pregnancies with Zika

  14-12-2016 21:15
  A U.S. study of Zika-infected pregnancies found that 6 percent of them ended in birth defects. The rate was nearly twice as high for women infected early in pregnancy. It's the first published research ...
  
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• Breakthrough for Alzheimer's could detect disease YEARS before symptoms appear

  14-12-2016 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  German scientists said the breakthrough could lead to victims being diagnosed before they reach an advanced stage - when treatments and lifestyle changes are less likely to be effective.
  
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• Getting better all the time? Not any more… | Brief letters

  14-12-2016 20:09
  
  VW pollution | Convalescence | Train guards | Unite election | Hellebores | Cocaine capital“We continue to push VW to take action to compensate the UK consumer,” says the Department for Transport (Report, 12 December). But why is it that comment on the “dieselgate” scandal focuses on compensation to owners? It is city residents in general that suffer the health impacts, and it is the NHS that bears the costs of caring for them. VW should make payments that reflect th
  
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• Girls with body image concerns 'more likely to try alcohol first' claims new study

  14-12-2016 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Tufts University analyzed government data on almost 7,000 girls aged 14 to 18 years old. The 38% with body insecurities were far more likely to have tried alcohol.
  
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• London woman gives birth after having an ovary frozen when she was younger

  14-12-2016 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Moaza Al Matrooshi, 24, from London, had her ovary tissue removed before she underwent chemotherapy to battle a blood disorder she was born with, which is known to damage the organs.
  
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• Breast cancer cells start spreading to other parts of the body long before a tumour is even detected

  14-12-2016 19:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine, New York, found that even before cancer is diagnosed breakaway cancer cells head off to infiltrate other bodily organs.
  
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• 90% of women with overweight children don't think they are too fat

  14-12-2016 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British children are also unaware of their size and four in ten who are either overweight or obese think they are 'about right', according to the findings of a major new NHS survey.
  
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• FDA denies bid to drop some warnings from tobacco pouches

  14-12-2016 19:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials have rejected an attempt by a Swedish company to remove several health warnings from its smokeless tobacco pouches, though regulators left open the possibility for other labeling changes it seeks.
  
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• FACTBOX - Trump to meet top tech CEOs from Google, Apple, others

  14-12-2016 19:01
  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump convenes a gathering of leaders of some of the largest technology companies at his New York headquarters on Wednesday as he continues to hold meetings before taking office on January 20. The session has been billed as an introductory meeting that will not result in any job or investment announcements, sources said. Below is a list of summit attendees and other meetings, according to Trump's transition team. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14 TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT * Amaz
  
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• Warwick University experts say sleep disorder drug also reduces hunger cravings

  14-12-2016 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Warwick University and Imperial College London found giving overweight adults Modafinil, generally used to treat narcolepsy, helps to reduce impulsive behaviour.
  
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• Humberside police distribute shatterproof pint glasses to pubs

  14-12-2016 18:42
  
  Scheme to hand out special glasses aims to reduce injuries and NHS costs from drink-related violence over ChristmasHumberside police have distributed thousands of shatterproof pint glasses to pubs and clubs across the region in an attempt to reduce glassing injuries as drunken violence increases over the festive period. Police estimate that each such incident costs the health and emergency services more than £500,000, and say the polycarbonate cups are less likely to cause lifelong scarrin
  
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• 7 Things No One Tells You About Hooking Up with Another Woman for the First Time

  14-12-2016 18:42
  
  Consider this your crash course.
  
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• Russia blocks U.N. council bid to thank Ban Ki-moon for gay rights work

  14-12-2016 18:36
  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia prevented the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday from thanking outgoing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon specifically for promoting gay rights during his decade in office, diplomats said. Being gay is a crime in at least 73 countries, the U.N. has said, and the issue of gay rights consistently sparks heated debate at the United Nations. The United States and other members had wanted a council statement to read: "It is thanks to you, Mr
  
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• The First Real Proof That Your Outlook Affects Longevity

  14-12-2016 18:20
  
  There’s plenty of data supporting the connection between a positive outlook and a healthier life—being optimistic can help you fend off stress, eat better and be more physically active, all of which can lower your risk of chronic illnesses.But despite how often it’s repeated, doctors haven’t been able to definitively tell you that a positive attitude will help you live longer, mainly because most studies on the subject haven’t followed people over lon
  
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• People Are Freaking Out About This Picture of Hilary Duff and Her Son

  14-12-2016 18:18
  
  She's getting torn apart on social media, but we'll let you be the judge.
  
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• Dietitian Helen Bond shares her secrets to a bloat-free Christmas

  14-12-2016 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dietitian Helen Bond reveals her top 20 tips to stop IBS-related symptoms during the party season - including avoiding the mini quiches and mince pies at the office Christmas party.
  
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• Risk of atrocities not over despite Aleppo ceasefire

  14-12-2016 18:09
  By Astrid Zweynert and Umberto Bacchi LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A plan to evacuate civilians from eastern Aleppo stalled on Wednesday as renewed air strikes and shelling rocked the city. A ceasefire brokered on Tuesday by Russia and Turkey was intended to end years of fighting in the city, giving Syrian President Bashar al-Assad his biggest victory in more than five years of war. Here are the views of some aid agencies and human rights organisations on the humanitarian situation in e
  
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• Italian doctors achieve world first by transplanting kidney in place of the spleen

  14-12-2016 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The youngster had been on dialysis since birth because of a rare kidney anomaly and a malformation of her blood vessels, a statement by the Molinette hospital in Turin, Italy said.
  
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• Leah Boxall suffers from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and needs money for life-saving surgery

  14-12-2016 17:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leah Boxall, 34, from Southampton, cannot turn her head without dislocating her neck and ispartially paralysed. She suffers from a condition that has left her spine and neck too weak to support her head and her brain is now slipping into her spinal column crushing her brain stem.
  
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• Actelion talking to Sanofi after J&J exit

  14-12-2016 17:54
  By Oliver Hirt and Pamela Barbaglia ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - Switzerland's Actelion Ltd is in talks with French drugmaker Sanofi about a deal, sources said on Wednesday, after U.S. healthcare group Johnson & Johnson abandoned efforts to buy the company. Actelion's shares ended 9 percent lower on investor concern that J&J's exit underlined the challenges facing any bidder for Europe's biggest biotech group. One option under consideration is for Sanofi to give shareholders a so-called con
  
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• Maps show the typical cause of death in each region of America

  14-12-2016 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The data collected by the University of Washington in Seattle offer an unprecedented detailed glimpse into the differing healthcare needs between regions.
  
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• Ambulance services in the UK: share your stories and experiences

  14-12-2016 17:37
  
  If you work in an ambulance crew or have received care as a patient, we’d like to hear from you. Share your experiences
  The pressure on the NHS ambulance services is increasing. Recent figures showed that of the UK’s 13 ambulance services, only Wales was reaching emergencies within the target time of eight minutes. They also showed that the number of patients waiting for ambulances for more than an hour had almost tripled in the past two years, and that ambulance crews were wasting m
  
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• This Might Be the Craziest Baby Name We’ve Ever Seen

  14-12-2016 17:36
  
  One Reddit user declared it ‘child abuse.’
  
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• What are your experiences of accessing mental health services in the UK? | Sarah Marsh

  14-12-2016 17:19
  
  We want to hear about any challenges you’ve faced and the best help you’ve received. Tell us belowThis week, the Guardian reported that NHS England is sending patients who are seriously ill with eating disorders to Scotland for treatment. Chronic bed shortages mean there is nowhere for them to get help closer to home.Mental health experts have expressed concern about this, saying it’s compromising the quality of care for those in need.Related: NHS England sending anorexic patie
  
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• Troops and court needed fast to avert South Sudan genocide - U.N.

  14-12-2016 17:07
  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - World powers can stop a "Rwanda-like" genocide in South Sudan if they immediately deploy a 4,000-strong protection force across the country and set up a court to prosecute atrocities, the head of a U.N. human rights commission said on Wednesday. "South Sudan stands on the brink of an all-out ethnic civil war, which could destabilise the entire region," commission chief Yasmin Sooka told an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Gang rape was
  
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• Doctors are using FISH SKIN to treat burn victims in a pioneering new treatment to heal wounds

  14-12-2016 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When an explosion at 36-year-old Maria Ines Candido da Silva's workplace in Russas, north east Brazil caused her severe burns, doctors dressed her wounds with the skin of a Tilapia fish.
  
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• Factbox: Trump to meet tech leaders from Google, Apple, others - sources

  14-12-2016 16:59
  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump convenes a gathering of leaders of some of the largest technology companies at his New York headquarters on Wednesday as he continues to form his administration before taking office on Jan. 20.
  
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• Would-be French president ditches private health insurance reform

  14-12-2016 16:17
  By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - The favourite to be France's next president sought on Wednesday to quell a revolt over his proposal for partial privatisation of public health insurance, deleting the proposal from his campaign website and denying he had ever suggested it. Francois Fillon, a fan of Britain's Margaret Thatcher, won the backing of his centre-right party two weeks ago to run for president on a programme of strident reform and massive public spending. Visiting a Paris hospital, the 62
  
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• The male contraceptive pill: how close are we? – Science Weekly podcast

  14-12-2016 16:11
  
  Over 100 million women around the world use the female contraceptive pill. But why isn’t there a male alternative? And are the barriers to its creation scientific or social?Subscribe & Review on iTunes, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud & AcastOn June 23rd 1960, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the world’s first combined oral contraceptive pill – or COCP - known as Enovid. And whilst there have been many developments in COCPs for women in the six decades that
  
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• The tale of two slums in South Africa as residents seek to upgrade lives

  14-12-2016 15:59
  By Nicky Milne CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Cape Town, the slums of Flamingo Crescent and Santini are just 20 kms apart but the gap in the standard of living in these two settlements is being hailed as an example of how residents can actively upgrade their own lives. Shanty towns are a familiar sight across the picturesque coastal city, with a third of Cape Town's 3.7 million residents living in slums or informal settlements with limited access to basic services, suc
  
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• 'Kangaroo care' makes premature babies healthier and wealthier, study finds

  14-12-2016 15:58
  
  Research suggests method involving skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding gives premature and low birth-weight infants better chance of thriving in later lifePremature babies who were breastfed exclusively and kept warm through continuous skin-to-skin contact have become young adults with larger brains, higher salaries and less stressful lives than babies who received conventional incubator care, according to a study published this week.The research (pdf), in the journal Pediatrics, compared 18-
  
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• 'Kangaroo care' makes premature babies healthier and wealthier, study claims

  14-12-2016 15:58
  
  Research suggests method involving skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding gives premature and low birth-weight infants better chance of thriving in later lifePremature babies who were breastfed exclusively and kept warm through continuous skin-to-skin contact have become young adults with larger brains, higher salaries and less stressful lives than babies who received conventional incubator care, according to a study published this week.The research (pdf), in the journal Pediatrics, compared 18-
  
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• Bird flu found on farm in big German poultry area

  14-12-2016 15:39
  A case of bird flu has been found on a small turkey farm in Lower Saxony in northern Germany, one of Europe's largest production regions, although it is not yet certain what variant of the disease it is, state authorities said on Wednesday. Tests are underway to see if the disease is of the high risk H5N8 type, but 8,400 turkeys on the farm in the Vechta area will be culled regardless of the outcome, the Lower Saxony state agriculture ministry said. Another farm in Lower Saxony also suffered a b
  
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• Asparagus smell in urine is down to your genes discover scientists

  14-12-2016 15:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three fifths of adults are unable to smell the distinct odour in their urine after consuming the vegetable, according to lead researcher Professor Lorelei Mucci, from Harvard University.
  
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• Mugabe rounds on party officials for 'shameless' ambition over succession

  14-12-2016 15:24
  Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Africa's oldest leader, criticised some ruling party officials on Wednesday for "shameless and unbridled" ambition in their quest to succeed him. Mugabe, 92, who has ruled the former British colony since independence in 1980, has refused to name a successor, saying the party will do so when the time comes. Looking frail and labouring through a 40-minute speech, Mugabe condemned what he called "dirty politics" in the party during an address to the ZANU-PF Centr
  
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