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• Honour for 83-year-old Samaritans volunteer

  30-12-2016 23:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Samaritans volunteer and a TV presenter-turned-dementia champion are among those awarded New Year honours.
  
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• Skincare scam: America's top face scrub in $5m court case over claims dermatologists do NOT recommend it

  30-12-2016 23:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  St Ives apricot scrub can be found in drugstores across the US, and on the shelves of celebrities such as Gigi Hadid. But now it is the center of a $5 million court case claiming it accelerates skin ageing.
  
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• Erectile dysfunction CURE: Heat-activated penis implant could help men in the bedroom

  30-12-2016 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ERECTILE dysfunction could be cured within five years with the arrival of a heat-activated ‘bionic penis’.
  
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• How DO you live to 100? 9 oldies in Spain's hub of centenarians give their tips on staying young, fresh and healthy

  30-12-2016 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Over a year, Reuters photographer Andrea Comas interviewed and photographed Spaniards aged 100 or more across the country from Asturias to the Balearic island of Menorca.
  
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• Why Your Skin Is Suddenly So Sensitive

  30-12-2016 21:30
  
  Your skin-care routine may be the culprit.
  
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• Obama's last month: 'Obamacare' defense, Chicago speech

  30-12-2016 20:43
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Eager to stop Republicans from destroying his signature health care law, President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers will meet next week to try to forge a common strategy. Obama also plans a major valedictory speech in Chicago, his hometown, shortly before his presidency ends.
  
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• How much fish should you eat each week? Calculator shows how many TOXINS you are ingesting

  30-12-2016 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FISH is considered key in a healthy diet because of its good sources of vitamins and minerals - but how much fish should you be eating each week, and is there such thing as eating too much?
  
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• Obama's last month: 'Obamacare' huddle, Chicago speech

  30-12-2016 19:36
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers will strategize next week about how to prevent Republicans from destroying "Obamacare." The president also plans to give a major valedictory speech next month in Chicago, his hometown, 10 days before his presidency ends.
  
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• Eating fish could help pregnant mothers ‘prevent asthma in children’

  30-12-2016 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MOTHERS to be who eat oily fish or take fish oil supplements more than halve the risk of their children developing asthma, a study says.
  
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• Ireland confirms bird flu case, carrying out tests

  30-12-2016 19:09
  DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland has found the H5N8 bird flu strain in a wild duck in the south eastern town of Wexford, the agriculture department said on Friday. Several European countries have found cases of H5N8 bird flu in recent weeks and Ireland ordered poultry flocks be kept indoors last week after an outbreak was confirmed in Britain. Further tests are being carried out to determine whether the virus is the same highly pathogenic strain that is currently present in Britain and mainland Europe
  
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• Want to go on a winter holiday without getting ill?

  30-12-2016 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some 12,353 incidences of sick bugs were reported by British holidaymakers in Egypt over the past five years. Sharm-el-Sheikh was found to be the worst offenders.
  
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• General Hospital actress Barbara Tarbuck dies of human mad cow disease at 74

  30-12-2016 17:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tarbuck's 14-year run on the ABC soap, from 1996 until 2010, was that of Lady Jane Jacks, the mother of Jax Jacks (Ingo Rademacher). She also had regular roles on Falcon Crest and Santa Barbara.
  
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• Chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies repeats warnings about festive drinking

  30-12-2016 16:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Government's chief medical officer cautioned of a 'direct line' between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. She was accused of having a nanny state attitude earlier this year.
  
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• 'I exercise a lot but drink a bit too much': middle-aged readers' health fears

  30-12-2016 16:18
  
  As a new campaign launches encouraging 40- to 60-year-olds to stay in shape, we ask readers to reflect on their healthThe government has launched a new health drive aimed at 40- to 60-year-olds, 83% of whom are either overweight, drink too much or are physically inactive. With its One You campaign, Public Health England wants to help middle-aged people stay in shape. It says aspects of modern life – such as sedentary lifestyles and the consumption of junk food – are bad for our healt
  
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• Bill Gates warns world is NOT prepared for a flu epidemic amid recent surge

  30-12-2016 16:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The billionaire philanthropist said the world was 'a bit vulnerable right now' – and would probably remain so for at least a decade.
  
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• Health tourists who give birth in Britain but don't pay have doubled

  30-12-2016 15:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In 2015/16, at least 2,167 women claimed free maternity care when they were not entitled to do so, This compares with 1,078 in 2013/14. The figures have led to critics branding officials as a ‘soft touch’.
  
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• How chair yoga could become the go-to treatment for arthritis sufferers

  30-12-2016 15:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Florida Atlantic University found chair yoga alleviated pain in sufferers of osteoarthritis, the most common form, for weeks after they stopped going to sessions.
  
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• What Type of Orgasm Feels Best: Vaginal or Clitoral?

  30-12-2016 15:00
  
  Inquiring minds want to know.
  
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• This Move Burns Way More Calories Than a Traditional Squat

  30-12-2016 15:00
  
  Build muscle and torch fat all at once.
  
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• 8 Things Women with ‘Invisible' Diseases Want You to Know

  30-12-2016 15:00
  
  “No one in a million years would ever know what I was going through.”
  
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• 6 Ways to Make Treadmill Running Less Torturous

  30-12-2016 15:00
  
  We asked the guy who just broke the 50-mile treadmill record how he does it.
  
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• Take the test to find out if different sounds transform your tastebuds

  30-12-2016 14:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Oxford University and Vrije University Brussel found high pitch notes from a piano or a flute and harmonies enhance the sweetness of a beer (stock image).
  
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• People may be ready to pay extra penny on tax for NHS, Tim Farron says

  30-12-2016 14:28
  
  Liberal Democrat leader says voters do not believe health service’s problems can be solved through efficiency savingsPeople may be ready to pay an extra penny on income tax to fund the NHS and social care, Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has said.Farron said voters had reached the stage of not believing the NHS’s problems could be solved through efficiency savings and might be willing to pay more if they were convinced it would go to the health service. Related: Lovi
  
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• Norovirus cases in England at highest level in five years

  30-12-2016 14:14
  
  Total of 163 hospital outbreaks reported so far this season, as vomiting bug results in more bed closures than this time last yearMore patients have been struck down with vomiting bug norovirus this year compared with the previous five years, according to official figures.Data from Public Health England shows reports of the bug had reached 2,435 this winter – 12% more than the average for the same period over the last five years. The figure is also 71% higher than the same period last year
  
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• Minnesota scientists beleive removing certain cells could see elderly people live longer

  30-12-2016 14:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, earlier this year found removing senescent cells - which are unable to reproduce themselves - helped older rodents live 25 per cent longer.
  
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• Tips from Spain’s centenarians on how to live to 100

  30-12-2016 13:22
  By Andrea Comas CANGAS DE ONIS, Spain (Reuters) - With more than 100,000 people aged 100 or over, Spain is the country with the greatest life expectancy after Japan, OECD data and the latest population census shows. Over a year, Reuters photographer Andrea Comas interviewed and photographed Spaniards aged 100 or more across the country from the green-hilled northern region of Asturias to the Balearic island of Menorca. Average life expectancy at birth in Spain is 83.2, according to the latest OE
  
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• Newcastle woman beats balloon phobia thanks to Skype session with hypnotherapist

  30-12-2016 13:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Special needs teacher Lisa Potter, 36, developed a fear of loud bangs as a teenager. Her crippling phobia saw her avoiding birthday parties because she was so terrified that a stray balloon could pop.
  
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• How testosterone can make men better listeners

  30-12-2016 13:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Testosterone has long been known as the hormone of competition, and is linked with aggression in males. But a recent French study links generosity with the chemical.
  
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• Mother loses 100lbs after discovering cheating husband and lover called her FAT

  30-12-2016 12:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Betsy Ayala, 34, from Houston, Texas, has shifted 103lbs (7st 5lbs) of pregnancy weight after discovering her cheating husband and his lover called her a 'fat f**k' and a 'cow' behind her back.
  
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• Bill Gates: world faces decade at risk from antibiotic-resistant bugs

  30-12-2016 12:35
  
  Philanthropist says he believes ‘better medical tools’ will come, but until then the world is vulnerable to a pandemicPeople across the world, particularly those in developing countries, face a decade at risk from pandemics spread by antibiotic-resistant bugs, the billionaire Bill Gates has warned. Gates, who made his fortune with the Microsoft Windows operating system before becoming a philanthropist, said the success of antibiotics had created complacency that was now being exposed
  
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• Can music change the flavour of beer? Take the test to find out if different sounds transform your tastebuds

  30-12-2016 12:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Oxford University and Vrije University Brussel found high pitch notes from a piano or a flute and harmonies enhance the sweetness of a beer (stock image).
  
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• How testosterone can make men kind and generous: Experts reveal the 5 weird ways it changes behaviour 

  30-12-2016 12:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Testosterone has long been known as the hormone of competition, and is linked with aggression in males. But a recent French study links generosity with the chemical.
  
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• Guatemalan authorities investigate death of model Melanie Montenegro

  30-12-2016 12:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Guatemalan model Melanie Montenegro, 22, had travelled to the city of Guayaquil to undergo liposuction in a clinic owned by a surgeon named Dr Felipe but died during surgery.
  
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• Woman who was told she'd never conceive a child gives birth to baby girl

  30-12-2016 11:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Annmarie Bowen, from South Wales, was just 21 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was expected to be left infertile from treatment but was given the all clear in March.
  
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• Eight charts that show 2016 wasn't as bad as you think

  30-12-2016 11:25
  
  Deaths in conflict have fallen (slightly), emissions have not risen for a third year and fewer people are dying from disease2016 is likely to be remembered as an annus horribilis for so many reasons that it’s tempting to think everything is doomed.But things are not always as they seem. There are silver linings. You just have to look hard to find them.Continue reading...
  
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• Are YOU happy with the size and shape of your body?

  30-12-2016 11:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some 41 per cent of British females reported trying a new diet plan in 2016 in an attempt to shed the pounds, a survey of 2,000 women by Healthista - a healthy lifestyle website found.
  
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• New fish calculator determines just how many toxic compounds you're eating

  30-12-2016 11:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Designed by Portuguese scientists, it asks for users to select their age range. They are then made to reveal the amount of fish they eat and which species they consume on a weekly basis.
  
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• The Cancer Journals record a new way for women to face ill-health

  30-12-2016 11:00
  
  Audre Lorde’s courageous account of her breast cancer defies how women are expected to deal with sickness, accepting pain and a transformed sense of self“This is it Audre, you’re on your own,” wrote black feminist poet and writer Audre Lorde in The Cancer Journals, a collection of diary entries and essays in which she recorded her experience with breast cancer. Published first in 1980, Lorde’s book predates the popularity of the cancer memoir, now an established gen
  
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• I have seen Britain shrouded in darkness before. Better times will come | Harry Leslie Smith

  30-12-2016 11:00
  
  The kind-hearted, egalitarian country that established the welfare state and built the NHS may seem dormant now – but it will rise againHope is hard to find in the grey teatime light of this December, because despite all of the holiday cheer around us, darkness gathers. It has been the hardest, saddest and cruellest of years – a sour vintage which has brought to everyone’s doorstep heartache, financial worries and political unease.Austerity seems eternal, and for many it is as
  
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• Dame Sally Davies: I enjoy a glass of wine too

  30-12-2016 10:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies tells us wine guidelines aimed at low-risk people
  
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• My dad's heart operation taught me a few things about being a doctor

  30-12-2016 10:45
  
  I suddenly saw myself in the families’ shoes and empathised more than I’d been able to previously“Look at this.” My dad handed me an information leaflet open on a page titled Sex after major heart surgery. Related: I learned the hard way that medicine can be humiliating and incestuousRelated: Ed Patrick is a junior doctor who’s finding the funny side | Sarah JohnsonContinue reading...
  
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• Health chief's alcohol advice 'could have been better'

  30-12-2016 10:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England's chief medical officer says her advice on alcohol could have been "framed differently".
  
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• Mexico's Maya point way to slow species loss, climate change

  30-12-2016 10:21
  By Talli Nauman FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maria Yam Pérez scrambles eggs over a wood-saving, earth-block stove and stirs in freshly chopped chaya, a spinach-like jungle plant known for its versatility in cooking and medicine. “If you go to the doctor and can’t get relief, this is the traditional Maya remedy.” This day in December is a customary holiday celebrating the Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe, so later Yam Pérez will don indi
  
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• Breast cancer warning over wine was worded poorly, says health chief

  30-12-2016 09:50
  
  Dame Sally Davies ‘could have framed it better’ when she told women to think about risks when they reach for a glassEngland’s chief medical officer has admitted she chose her words poorly when she told women they should “do as I do” and think about the risks of breast cancer every time they reach for a glass of wine.
  Dame Sally Davies was accused of nanny state attitudes when she made the comments earlier this year to MPs at a science and technology select committee
  
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• Newcastle woman beats her balloon phobia thanks to Skype session with a hypnotherapist

  30-12-2016 09:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Special needs teacher Lisa Potter, 36, developed a fear of loud bangs as a teenager. Her crippling phobia saw her avoiding birthday parties because she was so terrified that a stray balloon could pop.
  
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• Yes, you CAN die of a broken heart

  30-12-2016 09:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Just hours before Debbie Reynolds (pictured) suffered a stroke in Los Angeles after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher, she told her family: 'I miss her so much. I just want to be with her.'
  
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• NHS will be left powerless to perform checks if the UK stays in the single market

  30-12-2016 09:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The General Medical Council told MPs that if Britain stays in the EU single market, it will be unable to test properly the competence and skills of doctors from the Continent.
  
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• NHS maternity wards are riddled with cockroaches, rats, and maggots

  30-12-2016 09:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The cost of tackling the pest problem has spiralled over the last five years with vermin seen in maternity wards, child intensive care units and operating theatres.
  
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• Primary school children make anti-smoking packaging

  30-12-2016 08:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Primary school children have drawn anti-smoking packaging ahead of the country's plain packaging rollout in 2017.
  
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• NHS ambulance service forces elite paramedics to take non-urgent calls

  30-12-2016 08:00
  
  South East Coast ambulance service is putting lives at risk with changes to critical care paramedics, emergency workers warnAn NHS ambulance service has been accused of endangering patients’ lives by scrapping a system under which specialist paramedics responded to the most urgent 999 calls, such as strokes, heart attacks and car crashes.A leaked memo from the South East Coast ambulance service (Secamb) shows its most highly trained paramedics will have to deal with minor ailments because
  
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