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• Obama, Pence harden 'Obamacare' battle lines at Capitol

  04-01-2017 23:57
  
  Hardening battle lines for the brawl to come, President Barack Obama urged congressional Democrats to "look out for the American people" in defending his legacy health care overhaul, while Vice ...
  
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• Meet the 88-Year-Old Star of Your New Favorite Instagram Account

  04-01-2017 23:38
  
  Baddie Winkle is GOALS.
  
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• 10 Insanely Embarrassing Sex Moments That Actually Happened to Real Women

  04-01-2017 23:32
  
  “We both heard a distinct snapping sound.”
  
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• Kim Kardashian-endorsed morning sickness pill 'increases risk of birth defects'

  04-01-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The morning sickness pill Diclegis, endorsed by Kim Kardashian, could in fact increase the risk of birth defects. The just-found 1970s study questions if the pill should have been approved.
  
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• Mediterranean diets CAN help stop older brains from shrinking

  04-01-2017 22:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Scottish study of pensioners with this diet found their brain shrinkage, associated with memory loss and Alzheimer’s, was half of others their age.
  
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• Maryland scientists identify rogue proteins behind Alzheimer's disease

  04-01-2017 22:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The treatment of Alzheimer's Disease could be revolutionised after a breakthrough discovery by US scientists.
  
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• France to suspend sales of Vitamin D supplement after infant's death

  04-01-2017 22:20
  France has started measures to suspend sales of a Vitamin D supplement marketed as Uvesterol D after the death of a baby who had been given a dose of it, a French medical safety watchdog said on Wednesday. Health Minister Marisol Touraine said that oral syringe through which it is administered appeared to be at fault and that the supplement itself was not dangerous. Uvesterol D is developed by the Crinex laboratory and is used against Vitamin D deficiencies in children up to five years old.
  
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• Jury selection begins in meningitis outbreak that killed 64

  04-01-2017 22:17
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Jury selection has begun in the trial of a former top executive at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy blamed for a national meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people in 2012.
  
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• Zinc-rich short ribs could provide nutrients you need to avoid cancer and heart disease

  04-01-2017 21:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study has found that adding just four milligrams of zinc to your diet reduces 'wear and tear' on the DNA, extending your lifespan and benefiting your health by fighting infection and disease.
  
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• University of York scientists develop antibiotic designed to fight gonorrhea

  04-01-2017 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gonorrhea has been pinpointed as the most likely sexually-transmitted disease to become un-treatable in the near future. But a new breakthrough in the UK could change that, scientists claim.
  
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• This 30-Year-Old Cyst Is the Be-All, End-All of Pimple-Popping Videos

  04-01-2017 21:30
  
  Spoiler: It is truly disgusting.
  
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• The Best Diets for Weight Loss in 2017

  04-01-2017 21:23
  
  Hint: “I LOVE bread!” —Oprah.
  
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• Judge asks if Texas fetal remains rules override current law

  04-01-2017 21:00
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge appears to be casting doubt on the legality of hotly debated Texas rules requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains, questioning Wednesday whether they would override separate, existing state laws on scattering ashes.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump's hit-and-miss 'Obamacare' tweet

  04-01-2017 21:00
  
  Taking a swipe at "Obamacare" on Twitter, President-elect Donald Trump correctly identified two of its most pressing problems — a spike in premiums and high deductibles. But he failed to acknowledge ...
  
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• Four shot dead in apparent murder-suicide by Canadian veteran

  04-01-2017 20:50
  A 10-year-old girl, her parents and grandmother were found shot dead in their rural home in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia in what a relative described Wednesday as a murder-suicide by an Afghanistan war veteran who suffered from PTSD. Family member Catherine Hartling identified the gunman as 33-year-old Canadian Forces veteran Lionel Desmond and said she believed he had shot his daughter, his wife and his mother before killing himself on Tuesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  
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• Republicans make repealing Obamacare 'first order of business'

  04-01-2017 20:30
  By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama exhorted fellow Democrats on Wednesday to preserve his legacy-defining healthcare law as Republicans launched their long-desired bid to scrap it in what Vice President-elect Mike Pence called the "first order of business" of Donald Trump's administration. The Senate opened debate on a resolution setting in motion the Republican drive to repeal the Democratic-backed 2010 Affordable Care Act, which has helped upwards
  
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• Volkswagen CEO to stay away from Detroit auto show

  04-01-2017 20:20
  Volkswagen chief executive Matthias Mueller will miss the Detroit auto show next week, the German carmaker said on Wednesday, amid uncertainty over its chances of settling a U.S. criminal investigation into its emissions scandal. Volkswagen (VW) reached an agreement before Christmas to compensate U.S. owners of about 80,000 polluting 3.0-litre diesel cars, pushing up the costs of its emissions test cheating in the world's No. 2 car market to $17.5 billion. "There will be no separate event of the
  
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• Vanderbilt, Georgia and Ohio State experts advise how to dodge extortionate groceries

  04-01-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A long-held belief has been that healthier foods were more expensive while unhealthier foods were cheaper. Three dietitians explain that health and price don't necessarily correlate.
  
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• Who Do You Think Will Get a Rose on 'The Bachelor' Next Week?

  04-01-2017 19:53
  
  Swipe right on your favorite ladies so far.
  
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• 6 Women Share the Things They Wish They’d Known Before Asking for a Divorce

  04-01-2017 19:48
  
  “It wasn’t my husband's responsibility to make me happy.”
  
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• Repeal 'Obamacare,' but don't hurt consumers, Pence says

  04-01-2017 19:43
  
  Donald Trump's "first order of business" as president will be to repeal and replace "Obamacare," but Republicans must avoid hurting consumers as they do it, Vice President-elect Mike ...
  
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• WTH Are Healing Crystals—Do They Actually Do Anything?

  04-01-2017 19:35
  
  Celebs are obsessed with them—but are they total B.S.?
  
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• Flatten Your Abs with This Metabolic Core Workout

  04-01-2017 19:35
  Meet your abs' new worst enemy: the Dynamax ball.
  
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• How games on smartphones can treat DEPRESSION by boosting cognitive function

  04-01-2017 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the University of Washington believe video games can help treat depression by targeting the underlying cognitive issues, rather than just managing the symptoms.
  
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• Walk like a penguin to avoid slipping on ice, German doctors advise

  04-01-2017 19:05
  
  Advice to walk leaning forward so centre of gravity is on front leg comes as Germany braces for plummeting temperaturesWith temperatures forecast to plummet in Germany over the next few days, trauma surgeons in the country are telling residents how best to avoid slipping on icy pavements: walk like penguins.The technique involves leaning the torso forward so that the centre of gravity is on the front leg, according to an advisory published on the website of the German Society of Orthopaedics and
  
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• Health overhaul revisited: The impact of some GOP ideas

  04-01-2017 19:01
  
  Republicans are far from consensus on how they would replace President Barack Obama's health care law, which reduced the nation's uninsured rate to a historic low around 9 percent but failed to win broad ...
  
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• Scientists identify rogue proteins behind Alzheimer's disease

  04-01-2017 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The treatment of Alzheimer's Disease could be revolutionised after a breakthrough discovery by US scientists.
  
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• Laugh? I nearly died: how an aneurysm led Scott Gibson to standup

  04-01-2017 18:57
  
  After undergoing brain surgery, call-centre worker Scott Gibson quit his job to have a crack at comedy – and ended up storming EdinburghEight years ago, while returning home from a stag do in Blackpool, Scott Gibson began getting headaches that were so excruciating he rang the NHS’s 24-hour helpline and then had a stroke while on the phone. They sent an ambulance, but he turned it away and simply took to his bed instead – for four days. As he lay there, one thought kept going t
  
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• Avian flu: Defra tells owners to keep poultry indoors until spring

  04-01-2017 18:42
  
  Extension of prevention measures announced one day after a backyard flock in south Wales was found to have disease Poultry owners across Britain have been told they must keep their chickens, ducks and geese away from wild birds until the start of spring to counter the threat of avian influenza.Keepers, including people with just a few backyard hens, must place poultry indoors or take other measures to reduce the chances of them coming into contact with wild birds.Continue reading...
  
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• Pregnant cancer patient with 50% chance of life gives birth to healthy QUADRUPLETS 

  04-01-2017 18:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kayla Gaytan, 29, was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, cancer of the blood, in January 2016. She was given the all-clear then got pregnant. But the cancer came back 30 weeks into pregnancy.
  
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• Adele Uden forced to defend boyfriend after mystery illness causes bruising to her face

  04-01-2017 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Adele Uden, 26, first began to suffer from problems after her seven-year-old son, Zak, was born via emergency caesarean section in 2010.
  
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• Chipotle Made a Tool to Help You Avoid the 1,000-Calorie Burrito

  04-01-2017 18:14
  
  But 12 pounds of guac feels so RIGHT.
  
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• Austria investigates series of New Year's sexual assaults in Innsbruck

  04-01-2017 17:56
  Police in the Austrian city of Innsbruck are trying to identify a group of foreign men believed to have sexually assaulted 18 women during New Year's Eve celebrations, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The women have reported that unidentified assailants had groped and tried to kiss them that evening as they stood in or near a crowded central square for a concert and fireworks display. In neighbouring Germany last year, hundreds of women were sexually assaulted and robbed at New Year's celebrations
  
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• A Month-by-Month Guide to the Best Places to Travel in 2017

  04-01-2017 17:43
  
  This article originally appeared on Money.com.With the planet feeling smaller than ever before, there’s no need to stay local with your vacation plans. For inspiration, MONEY has lined up a year’s worth of great travel destinations, near and far—one for every month of 2017. This year’s picks take advantage of currency shifts and travel trends, to identify the perfect set of seasonal bargains. Use the following list to inspire your travel schedule—then read the
  
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• The Flexing-Biceps-Emoji Workout

  04-01-2017 17:40
  
  Tone your arms with this four-move upper-body routine.
  
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• Pence says repealing Obamacare 'first order of business'

  04-01-2017 17:35
  By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump has made repealing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law the "first order of business" and intends a smooth transition to a "market-based" medical insurance system, Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Wednesday. Democratic leaders met with Obama on Capitol Hill to discuss how they can protect the law and accused Republicans of wanting rip apart the American healthcare system with no plan on how to
  
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• Under-the-skin implant which releases daily PrEP dose could slash HIV infection rates

  04-01-2017 17:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A subdermal implant is being developed by scientists in Boston, who believe it could be a game-changer in the fight against AIDS - thanks to fact it would release a regular dose of PrEP.
  
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• Creatine 'should be BANNED for gym-goers under 18'

  04-01-2017 16:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Health stores across the US have insisted the popular ingredient be restricted for people under 18 years because of fears it could pose health risks.
  
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• The nuts?

  04-01-2017 16:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A record number of people have signed up for Veganuary - swerving meat and dairy for January - but does it do any good?
  
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• How to Get Rid of Earwax

  04-01-2017 16:27
  
  This article originally appeared on RealSimple.com.Mom always told you not to put anything in your ear that's smaller than your elbow. Well, she was right. Not only is that good advice; it’s now an official guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of earwax, published Tuesday by the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation.This update to the Foundation’s existing earwax guidelines, originally published in 2008, takes a new, consumer-focused appr
  
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• Ugh! Why hand sanitiser is a must when celebrities meet the great unwashed

  04-01-2017 16:24
  
  Robbie Williams was ridiculed after cleaning his hands on stage on New Year’s Eve. He may well have been joking, but he’s not the only one to fear close contact with the publicFor a man who has boasted about his record of enthusiastic manual engagement with the public, Donald Trump is shy about grabbing women – or anyone – by the hand. Or at least he was. In his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback, Trump called hand-shaking “one of the curses of American society&rdquo
  
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• Gender pay gap halves for millennials, but will widen with age - study

  04-01-2017 16:16
  The analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics by the Resolution Foundation found the gender pay gap has closed for every generation of women since those born between 1911 and 1925. “Young women today face relatively little disadvantage in terms of their pay packets compared to what their parents’ and grandparents’ generation faced," said Laura Gardiner, senior policy analyst at the non-partisan foundation. According to the study, the gender pay gap has fallen fro
  
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• How to Lose Weight Fast Without Crash Dieting

  04-01-2017 16:02
  
  Yes, it’s possible.
  
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• Trump warns Republicans to 'be careful' over Obamacare - tweet

  04-01-2017 15:12
  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday warned fellow Republicans to "be careful" over their effort to repeal U.S. Democratic President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, urging conservatives not to let the pressure off Democrats. "Republicans must be careful in that the Dems own the failed ObamaCare disaster, with its poor coverage and massive premium increases," Trump tweeted. "Don't let the Schumer clowns out of this web...," he added, referring to U.S. Senate Democratic Leader C
  
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• Trial to begin over meningitis outbreak that killed 64 total

  04-01-2017 15:06
  BOSTON (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin in the murder trial of a former top executive at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy that has been blamed for a national meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people in 2012.
  
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• French baby death linked to vitamin dose

  04-01-2017 14:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  France acts to suspend the sale of a vitamin D supplement after the death of a newborn baby.
  
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• Thousands return to ruins of freezing Aleppo - U.N. official

  04-01-2017 13:36
  By Lisa Barrington BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thousands of people are starting to return to formerly rebel-held east Aleppo despite freezing weather and destruction "beyond imagination", a top U.N. official told Reuters from the Syrian city. In the last couple of days around 2,200 families have returned to the Hanano housing district, said Sajjad Malik, country representative in Syria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). "People are coming out to east Aleppo to see their shops,
  
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• What are your experiences of NHS maternity services?

  04-01-2017 13:20
  
  Have you been forced to travel for care? Was enough care offered after you gave birth? Share your stories of treatment One 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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• 2016 was the worst year in NHS history – we must fight for its survival

  04-01-2017 13:09
  
  The NHS is under unprecedented pressure after its annus horribilis. We must demand a rethink on its current trajectory before it’s too lateThe last 12 months have been the worst in the history of the NHS. Our health system is under pressure like never before. The moment of crisis many warned of has arrived, and it is not clear that the NHS can be retrieved from this state of affairs. We used to say that flailing A&Es represented an early warning sign that the health service was under p
  
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• Knife-wielding man wounds 11 children in south China

  04-01-2017 13:06
  A man in China's southern region of Guangxi wounded 11 children with a blade at their kindergarten on Wednesday, state television said, in the country's latest mass knifing incident. Violent crime is rare in China, compared to many other countries, but there has been a series of knife and axe attacks in recent years, many targeting children. China Central Television said in a post on its official microblog that a man climbed the wall of the kindergarten in the city of Pingxiang and attacked the
  
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