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• One in four UK babies miss out on health visitor checks

  01-01-2017 23:00
  
  Social Mobility Commission raises concern over figures, and Labour accuses Tories of failing to invest in early years supportOne in four babies born in the UK are not receiving mandatory checkups from health visitors during the first two years of their life.A fifth of babies do not receive the recommended reviews after they turn one, and one in four miss out at the age of two, according to the government’s commission on social mobility. Continue reading...
  
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• Extra weight gained over the festive period takes more than six months to shift

  01-01-2017 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discovered that our weight peaks on January 3 and many of us will not have shed the Christmas bulge until play starts at Wimbledon at the beginning of July.
  
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• Seven-day NHS plan puts weekday surgeries at risk, warns top GP

  01-01-2017 21:00
  
  Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard says government’s pledge to guarantee access to family doctors at weekends is unrealistic Britain’s top GP has said surgeries will have to stop seeing patients during the week unless ministers abandon their drive to guarantee access to family doctors at weekends.Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard condemned the policy, a key Conservative pledge, as unrealistic and said it was ignoring the lack of demand among patients to see GPs at weekends and a serious shortage of famil
  
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• 'Patients who should live are dying': Greece's public health meltdown

  01-01-2017 19:37
  
  Alexis Tsipras’s austerity drive has seen hospitals become ‘danger zones’, doctors say, with many fearing worse is to comeRising mortality rates, an increase in life-threatening infections and a shortage of staff and medical equipment are crippling Greece’s health system as the country’s dogged pursuit of austerity hammers the weakest in society.Data and anecdote, backed up by doctors and trade unions, suggest the EU’s most chaotic state is in the midst of a p
  
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• Shameless eBay traders hawking 'quack' diet potions to children as young as THREE

  01-01-2017 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A weight-loss product, called JuniorSlim, aimed at children as young as three is being sold by traders on eBay. It costs more than £43 a bottle and has a laxative effect if taken in high quantities.
  
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• London must stand together in 2017 if its golden age is not to end

  01-01-2017 16:59
  
  The capital’s politicians and other influential groups need unanimity of purpose if the city is to keep prospering in the year of uncertainties ahead For three decades, with barely a blip, the UK capital has been going from strength to strength. Nothing has stunted its potency and growth, not the 7/7 bombings or the 2011 riots, not Black Monday or the 2008 global crash, not even the original Millennium Dome. Its economy drives and subsidises the rest of the country, its still-new tier of r
  
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• Exactly How to Burn More Calories on the Treadmill

  01-01-2017 16:17
  
  Follow this workout routine for better results.
  
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• This One-Day Meal Plan Will Help Kick-Start Your Weight Loss

  01-01-2017 15:00
  
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• How Yogi Ashley Hart Stopped Feeling ‘Stuck' in Her Body and Changed Her Life

  01-01-2017 15:00
  
  If you've ever had trouble accepting yourself, you'll recognize her story.
  
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• 7 Women Share the Workouts That Helped Them Transform Their Bodies

  01-01-2017 15:00
  
  “I would cut up dumbbell workouts from magazines and take them to the gym.”
  
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• The Best Diet Plan for Weight Loss: Your 7-Day Guide

  01-01-2017 14:26
  
  Exactly what to eat for all your meals and snacks.
  
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• 9 Unexpected New Year’s Resolutions That Helped These Women Lose Weight

  01-01-2017 14:26
  
  #3: Spend less money.
  
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• Pope says terrorism casts bloodstain over world, condemns Istanbul attack

  01-01-2017 13:04
  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged leaders to work together to fight the "plague of terrorism", saying in his New Year's address on Sunday that a bloodstain was covering the world as it started 2017. Speaking to some 50,000 people in St. Peter's Square for his traditional noon address, Francis departed from his prepared text to condemn the Istanbul nightclub attack that killed at least 39 people.
  
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• Secrets of success

  01-01-2017 11:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There are psychological tricks which can help people achieve and stick to their new year goals.
  
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• London ambulance staff log calls with pen and paper after IT failure

  01-01-2017 10:53
  
  Computer system crashes for five hours on New Year’s Eve, one of busiest nights of year for paramedicsStaff at one of the country’s biggest ambulance services had to log emergency calls manually overnight because of technical issues in the control room, delaying response times.It is understood London ambulance service’s computer system crashed, forcing staff to record details of calls by pen and paper for nearly five hours on one of the busiest nights of the year. Continue read
  
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• How we transition into the new year

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  Our brains are always on the lookout for joining up the dotsYou may have woken up today feeling a little more wobbly than usual, not just from last night’s festivities, but about what 2017 holds. We can’t help our memories of last year colouring our expectations of the next. We’re wired that way.We know this from the Colour Phi experiment in 1976, where respondents were shown a blue dot at the top left hand corner of a screen followed soon after by a red dot at the bottom right
  
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• U.S. judge blocks transgender, abortion-related Obamacare protections

  01-01-2017 03:43
  A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a court order barring enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act to transgender health and abortion-related services. The decision sides with Texas, seven other states and three Christian-affiliated healthcare groups challenging a rule that, according to the judge, defines sex bias to include "discrimination on the basis of gender identity and termination of pregnancy."
  
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• MATT ROBERTS: How can I be obese with a 34in waist? 

  01-01-2017 03:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Personal trainer to the stars MATT ROBERTS writes an unmissable column where he offers tips on how to lose weight and how to work out after a shoulder injury.
  
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• Ex-bodybuilder Taryn Brumfitt campaigns to ditch diets and end myth of the ideal shape

  01-01-2017 01:04
  
  Australian writer took on body image prejudices – and a new film, Embrace, shows her message winning global supportMany of us waking up will feel the familiar pang of New Year’s Day self-loathing and decide that this is the day to start that new diet, begin that new detox, finally attempt to get the body of our dreams. Within a month we will probably feel miserable, hungry and no closer to achieving our goal.Now a new film is set to challenge the increasingly pervasive message that t
  
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• SARA MALM put the new 'micro-resolution' plan to the test... and cured her insomnia

  01-01-2017 00:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A third of Britons make a New Year's resolution, but almost half fall by the wayside come February. Mail on Sunday reporter Sara Malm found out how a new book can help you strengthen your resolve.
  
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