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• Shower in the morning to boost creativity and at night if you want to fall asleep: Expert reveals how the timing of your bathroom rituals can help you beat stress

  27-12-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Shelley Carson, a psychology lecturer at Harvard University, says morning showers can help those who are feeling stressed due to work or under pressure to be creative.
  
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• Hips hurting? It's because we evolved from walking on four legs to standing up

  27-12-2016 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Orthopaedic problems may be a hangover from when humans began standing up straight on two legs, a study has suggested. And evolution could be to blame for chronic hip pain.
  
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• Cotard's syndrome makes patients genuinely believe they are deceased

  27-12-2016 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mechanic, former soldier and father of two from Braintree, Essex, was utterly gripped by the notion he was a ghost. Warren's injuries in the crash included a broken back and pelvis.
  
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• Your brain on alcohol: Experts reveal what REALLY happens when you get drunk

  27-12-2016 22:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new Reactions video reveals the many ways alcohol affects the brain, leading to impaired thoughts, sound and light sensitivity, and even ‘blackouts.’ The molecule ethanol is to blame.
  
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• RIP Carrie Fisher: We Salute Your Advocacy for Mental Health Issues

  27-12-2016 22:05
  
  “She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly."
  
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• Why we break eye contact: Study finds searching for the next word while maintaining a gaze becomes too much for your brain to handle

  27-12-2016 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Kyoto University found maintaining eye contact and retrieving and selecting words will compete for mental resources used to perform complex tasks.
  
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• 6 Doctors Share the Morning Routines They Swear By to Feel Great All Day

  27-12-2016 20:54
  
  Sorry, hitting snooze didn’t make the list.
  
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• Study finds brain state caused by experiences affects way you process future events

  27-12-2016 20:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at New York University examined the lingering effects of emotional experiences and found that both physiological and internal brain states persisted long after the event.
  
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• Smartphone radiation WON'T kill sperm as radio waves do not produce enough energy

  27-12-2016 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An expert from Georgetown University explains that radio waves in a smartphone have really low energies, making it near impossible to damage cells and affect a man's sperm count.
  
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• The 10 Best Ways to Stay Fit on Your Next Trip to Las Vegas

  27-12-2016 18:28
  
  It’s not all cocktails and casinos.
  
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• Labour calls for OBR-style watchdog to assess NHS finances

  27-12-2016 18:14
  
  Independent body would help ensure NHS receives proper funding and avoid political rows, says Jonathan AshworthA Labour government could boost the NHS by committing a specified proportion of national wealth to fund it and setting up a new independent body to ensure ministers give it the money it needs, the shadow health secretary has said.
  Jonathan Ashworth said a watchdog modelled on the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) would help ensure the NHS received proper funding and avoid rows like
  
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• This Woman Hiked a Marathon in the Snow to Save Her Family Over the Weekend

  27-12-2016 17:39
  
  Karen says she relied on her “solutions-oriented” personality and maternal instinct to survive.
  
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• Nurse struck off for leaving dementia patient in storeroom overnight

  27-12-2016 17:39
  
  Heather Davies left distressed woman in an equipment cupboard at Hinchingbrooke hospital in CambridgeshireA senior nurse has been struck off after leaving a distressed, hallucinating patient with dementia in an unlit equipment cupboard overnight. Heather Davies was the nurse in charge of a night shift on a dementia ward in Hinchingbrooke hospital, Cambridgeshire, when a patient with dementia became delirious and started shouting, disturbing others in her bay, a disciplinary hearing by the Nursin
  
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• Europe is failing to help a generation of traumatised children | Joan Smith

  27-12-2016 17:04
  
  Eight million child refugees is a mental health time bomb. Ignoring it now would be a terrible mistakeEveryone knows there’s an international refugee crisis. But there is a vital issue that’s in danger of being missed – the terrible psychological damage that’s being done to millions of children. Such harm is less obvious than physical wounds, but most European countries haven’t had to deal with childhood trauma on this scale since the end of the second world war.The
  
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• Scientist warns editing genes to eliminate cancer could spell end of geniuses

  27-12-2016 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientist James Kozubek says altering human genes to cure diseases and disorders could stop the rise of geniuses like Stephen Hawking.
  
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• 'My Husband and I Threw a Sex Party to Celebrate Our 20th Anniversary’

  27-12-2016 16:58
  
  “It was our first time hosting such an event.”
  
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• Patients with dyspraxia and diabetes reveal humiliation at being called drunk

  27-12-2016 16:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Every festive season the streets fill with the merrily tipsy tripping over kerbstones. But appearing to be drunk can also be the result of a serious health problem.
  
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• 5 Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes When They Start New Year's Resolution Diets

  27-12-2016 16:07
  
  Here’s how to ease the transition from cookies to kale.
  
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• 5 Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes When They Start Near Year's Resolution Diets

  27-12-2016 16:07
  
  Here’s how to ease the transition from cookies to kale.
  
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• Number of patients waiting 12 hours in casualty TREBLES

  27-12-2016 15:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The figures reveal how 12-hour waits – or longer – in casualty at hospitals in England have become the norm, with more than 500 patients enduring a wait of this period every day.
  
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• Why being chubby could help you live longer and other reasons why fat isn't your enemy

  27-12-2016 15:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In studies where scientists removed all fats from rats’ diets, the animals became sick — their skin was scaly and full of dandruff, they lost fur, developed sores and their tails and paws became inflamed.
  
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• Russia opens criminal case into official after 77 die of alcohol poisoning

  27-12-2016 14:03
  Russian investigators said on Tuesday they had opened a criminal case into a senior regional official in Siberia after at least 77 people died from drinking bath oil for alcoholic kicks. The mass poisoning in Irkutsk, a city 2,600 miles (4,000 km) east of Moscow, was the worst of its kind in recent years in a country where up to 12 million people consume cheap surrogate alcohol. Investigators have so far detained 23 people and President Vladimir Putin has demanded tighter controls on the product
  
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• Chief nurse: 'Cut hospital beds to increase care at home'

  27-12-2016 13:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  NHS England's chief nursing officer supports cutting hospital beds to use the money on care at home.
  
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• Monty Python star’s illness ‘sparked huge interest in dementia’

  27-12-2016 12:02
  
  Michael Palin says news of Terry Jones’ illness prompted huge outpouring of support and interest in the topicThe news this autumn that former Monty Python actor Terry Jones was suffering from dementia prompted an extraordinary outpouring of support and interest in the topic, his colleague Michael Palin has said.“The response was not just great sympathy for Terry and his family, but great interest in dementia,” Palin said. “So many people from all over the world saying my
  
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• Christmas moonshine kills 23 in Pakistan town - police

  27-12-2016 11:44
  At least 45 people were treated for poisoning after drinking the moonshine in the town of Toba Tek Singh, Punjab province, about 315 km (195 miles) south of Islamabad. "The maker and supplier of the toxic liquor is also included among the dead," senior police official Bilal Kamyana told Reuters. "The maker prepared liquor at home and sold it in polythene bags for 500 rupees (about $5) each." Deaths from tainted liquor, often home-brewed, occur periodically in Muslim-majority Pakistan, often arou
  
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• Chinese investors buy stake in mapping firm HERE

  27-12-2016 10:55
  Chinese mapping firm NavInfo, internet group Tencent and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC are buying a 10 percent stake in digital maps company HERE, the latest in a string of Chinese acquisitions in Europe. Germany carmakers Audi, BMW and Daimler bought HERE from Nokia for 2.55 billion euros ($2.6 billion) last year to create an alternative digital mapping business to Google. Nokia bought the company at a time when drivers were starting to switch from navigation devices such as those made
  
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• Analysis: GOP vexed by factions on replacing health law

  27-12-2016 09:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are united on repealing President Barack Obama's health care law, but ideologically and practically speaking, they're in different camps over replacing it. Getting the factions together won't be easy.
  
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• Gay rights groups brave abuse, violence to fight HIV in Cameroon

  27-12-2016 09:46
  By Anne Mireille Nzouankeu YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting in a circle with several other young men in a charity's offices in Cameroon's capital, Fleur listens intently to the speaker talk about gay sex before slowly raising his hand. "Can we catch AIDS by swallowing sperm?" he asks, prompting laughter from his peers at the group discussion held by Alcondoms, an organisation promoting the rights and health of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. Cameroon has the s
  
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• NHS should shift focus to home-based care, says chief nursing officer

  27-12-2016 07:39
  
  Jane Cummings says switch would let health service spend cash on patients rather than ‘old and expensive buildings’The NHS needs to spend more money looking after people in their own homes rather than in hospital, the chief nursing officer for England has warned.Jane Cummings of NHS England said too much cash was being pumped into caring for patients in “old and expensive” hospitals, rather in a more efficient domiciliary setting. Related: NHS mental health services faili
  
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• So long suckers

  27-12-2016 04:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Our lingering love affair with old-fashioned cold and cough preparations.
  
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• How long do leftovers last? Experts reveal how carving meat off the bone, adding salt to your eggs and storing cakes in the freezer could make your meals last months

  27-12-2016 03:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Reduce food waste and enjoy delicious meals well into the New Year by following these tips and tricks from Australian food experts to make everything go further...
  
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• The garden shed full of helping hands

  27-12-2016 02:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The British duo 3D printing prosthetic arms for children, for free, in the back garden.
  
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• Changing attitudes

  27-12-2016 01:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Actress Carey Mulligan has witnessed the effects of dementia on a close family member. she believes a better understanding will help remove the stigma that surrounds it.
  
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• Carey Mulligan on dementia and music

  27-12-2016 01:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As part of her guest editorship of Today, actress Carey Mulligan explores the stigma associated with dementia.
  
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• Hip pain may be 'hangover from evolution'

  27-12-2016 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Evolution might help explain why humans are prone to shoulder, hip and knee pain, bone experts say.
  
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