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• Taking Selfies Doesn't Make You a Narcissist, Research Says

  11-01-2017 23:52
  
  Why do people take selfies? It’s not all about narcissism, says a new study from Brigham Young University. Based on survey responses and interviews with a small group of social media users, researchers identified three categories of people who snap and share the iconic digital self-portraits: communicators, autobiographers, and self-publicists. Communicators are really interested in two-way conversation, according to the study authors, and they take selfies primarily to engage fr
  
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• Are People Who Take Lots of Selfies Really Narcissists?

  11-01-2017 23:52
  
  Why do people take selfies? It’s not all about narcissism, says a new study from Brigham Young University. Based on survey responses and interviews with a small group of social media users, researchers identified three categories of people who snap and share the iconic digital self-portraits: communicators, autobiographers, and self-publicists. Communicators are really interested in two-way conversation, according to the study authors, and they take selfies primarily to engage fr
  
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• Theresa May and NHS chief Simon Stevens clash overgrowing crisis in health service 

  11-01-2017 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, pictured at the Public Accounts Committee today, also said it was unhelpful of the Prime Minister to deny there is a gap in NHS funding.
  
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• Three surgeons try to carry out a virtual heart transplant in a notoriously tricky video game

  11-01-2017 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  YouTube channel Facts had three Irish surgeons play the video game Surgeon Simulator 2013. As they learned, their real word skills had no application in the notoriously difficult game.
  
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• Exercise made easy - and pain free, Delicious dishes the whole family will love and how you can still enjoy curry and kebabs: Dr Xand van Tulleken's Definitive Diet 

  11-01-2017 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the same way that his Definitive Diet helps you shed weight effortlessly without gimmicks,Dr Xand van Tulleken is here to tell you that getting active really doesn’t have to be difficult.
  
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• 'I Had Twins—But Didn't Know How To Dress My Post-Baby Shape'

  11-01-2017 23:28
  
  Our style expert shows this mom how to rock her new shape.
  
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• Do YOU think Trump is better looking than Obama? Study suggests right-wing people are more attractive than those on the left

  11-01-2017 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of researchers, led by the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Sweden, looked at the link between attractiveness and political belief in politicians in Europe, the US and Australia.
  
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• 6 Cheap (But Kick-Ass) Sex Toys You Can Get At Spencer’s

  11-01-2017 23:05
  
  Remember when you used to giggle with your friends while visiting the store?
  
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• NHS crisis: 20 hospitals declare black alert as patient safety no longer assured

  11-01-2017 23:00
  
  Cancer operations were cancelled and a birthing centre closed last week as hospitals declared top level alert to cope with overcrowdingMore than 20 hospitals in England have had to declare a black alert this week after becoming so overcrowded that they could no longer guarantee patient safety and provide their full range of normal services. Related: Share your experiences of the NHS this winterRelated: NHS England chief hits back at Theresa May on health service fundingRelated: Red Cross descrip
  
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• Governor says there's less of him to hate: He lost 50 pounds

  11-01-2017 22:31
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage says he had weight loss surgery and jokes now "there's 50 less pounds of me to hate."
  
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• Correction: Drug Prices-Johnson & Johnson story

  11-01-2017 22:16
  
  In a story Jan. 10 about Johnson & Johnson's plans to disclose some information on its prescription drug price increases, The Associated Press reported erroneously the use of the company's drug Xarelto. It is used to prevent strokes, not heart attacks.
  
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• The miracle of yoga: Regular exercise could help with lower back pain

  11-01-2017 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MILLIONS of people who suffer back pain have been given further evidence of the benefits of yoga.
  
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• 7 Nutritionists Share The One Food They Eat Every Single Day

  11-01-2017 22:01
  
  Add these to your grocery list.
  
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• Trump picks Veterans Affairs insider to lead troubled agency

  11-01-2017 21:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped the Department of Veterans Affairs' top health official to lead a beleaguered agency struggling to meet the health needs of millions of veterans.
  
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• 3 Products That'll Help Pregnant Ladies Get Some Effing Sleep

  11-01-2017 21:48
  
  We asked a preggo doc to test these and weigh in.
  
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• Fighting the pain of arthritis: Walking could be key to healthy joints

  11-01-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  WALKING for just 45 minutes a week can help stave off the agony of arthritis in older adults, according to new research.
  
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• BBC film on child transgender issues worries activists

  11-01-2017 21:33
  
  Criticism over featured expert’s approach to gender dysphoria The transgender community is “very scared and very worried” by a BBC documentary on how to approach gender dysphoria in children, organisations and activists are claiming.The film – Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? – prominently features Kenneth Zucker, a Canadian psychologist whose controversial approach with transgender children led to his being sacked in 2015 from a Toronto gender identity clinic. Rel
  
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• How to spice up YOUR sex life: From watermelon to bee pollen, seven foods to get you in the mood 

  11-01-2017 21:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There are some habits you should ditch and some you should embrace to help get you back in the mood, British nutritionist Sarah Flower explains.
  
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• Could YOUR salad be contaminated? Doctor warns of toxic levels of copper lurking in kale, avocado and coconut

  11-01-2017 20:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An expert claims copper found in produce such as kale, coconut and avocado could be making us sick. Dr Svetlana Koga saysalthough copper is important, high amounts could be dangerous.
  
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• Babies made without mothers 'will come sooner than we think', leading scientists warn

  11-01-2017 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Late last year, a team at the University of Bath discovered that sperm and skin cells - or any other kind of non-egg cell - might be all you need for conception. Now experts say it could happen soon.
  
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• Trump says pharma 'getting away with murder,' stocks slide

  11-01-2017 20:54
  By Caroline Humer and Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said pharmaceutical companies are "getting away with murder" in what they charge the government for medicines, and promised that would change, sending drugs stocks sharply lower. The benchmark S&P 500 index slipped into negative territory after his remarks at a news conference spooked investors. The Ishares Nasdaq Biotech ETF dropped 4 percent at its session low and was on track for its l
  
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• 7 Period Myths That Need To Go Away Right Now

  11-01-2017 20:42
  
  Lies. Bloody lies.
  
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• We're Totally Obsessed With Nina Dobrev's New Haircut

  11-01-2017 20:39
  
  "Short hair. Don't care."
  
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• White House assails Trump 'secrecy' on financial dealings with Russia

  11-01-2017 20:35
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday said U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team have refused to make public information that would put to rest questions about his and his family's possible financial entanglements in Russia. "There's ample evidence that they could marshal, to make public to refute those claims, those accusations that they say are baseless. But they refuse to do so," spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing. "That kind of secrecy only serve
  
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• Aid agencies sound alarm over freezing Balkans weather as migrant deaths reported

  11-01-2017 20:29
  By Astrid Zweynert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dozens of migrants are at risk of freezing to death in Europe after heavy snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures hit Greece and the Balkans, aid agencies said on Wednesday. Central and southeastern Europe have been gripped by freezing weather and snowstorms for days, with night-time temperatures dropping below minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit) in some areas. The Missing Migrants Project, set up by the U.N. migration agency (IO
  
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• NHS England chief contradicts May over spending

  11-01-2017 20:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Simon Stevens dismisses government claims the NHS is getting "more" money than asked for.
  
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• Everything You Need To Know About Golden Showers

  11-01-2017 19:30
  
  Here's everything you need to know about the headline-making fetish.
  
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• NHS hospitals in England face £322m tax bill increase from April

  11-01-2017 19:15
  
  Changes to business rates system mean NHS trusts face 21% rise in property tax bill over next five years – but some are fighting for charitable exemptionCash-strapped hospitals in England face a £322m tax hike from April which threatens to increase the strain on the under-pressure NHS.Changes to the business rates system mean that the 1,249 NHS hospitals liable for the property tax will see their bill increase by 21% over the next five years, according to research conducted for the G
  
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• Corbyn catches Maybot on the hop in NHS-themed PMQs | John Crace

  11-01-2017 19:10
  
  Six questions on the health service saw the Labour leader firmly on home ground, while the prime minister found her ground to be rather shaky Say what you like about the ‘shared society’, it’s catching on a lot better than David Cameron’s ‘big society’. Theresa May has spent much of the last week sharing the blame for the crisis in the NHS between the NHS itself and patients who will insist on getting ill at inconvenient times. Anyone but her, in other words.
  
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• More bird flu outbreaks can be expected in Europe - animal health chief

  11-01-2017 19:04
  By Johnny Cotton PARIS (Reuters) - Further bird flu outbreaks caused by migrating birds are likely to hit Europe in the future after a second outbreak in as many years on the continent that was down to chance, said the head of the world animal health body. A total of 18 European countries have been hit by the contagious H5N8 strain since mid-October, leading to the culling of over 1.5 million poultry so far. France, which has the largest poultry flock in the European Union, has ordered a massive
  
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• Tennessee woman jailed for attempting abortion accepts plea deal for release

  11-01-2017 18:46
  
  Anna Yocca freed after initially facing a possible life sentence, but advocates fear her case is a validation of arresting pregnant women who attempt abortionA Tennessee woman arrested in late 2015 for using an unravelled coat hanger to attempt her own abortion was released from jail on Monday in exchange for a guilty plea to one felony count of procuring a miscarriage.Anna Yocca, 32, initially faced a possible life sentence for her September 2015 self-abortion attempt. Under her plea, she was g
  
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• NHS England chief hits back at Theresa May on health service funding

  11-01-2017 18:43
  
  Simon Stevens shows MPs copy of Daily Mail story that UK has fewer medics, beds and scanners than other European nationsThe NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens, has taken on Theresa May over the funding of the health service and wielded a copy the Daily Mail in front of MPs as he tried to show that it was short of doctors and equipment.Stevens told the public accounts committee that investment in the health service in the UK is trailing behind the rest of the EU, contradicting the prime m
  
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• Girl, 2, is left unable to walk after a 'mosquito bite' caused her skin to blister and 'burn' 

  11-01-2017 18:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Momo, from a tribe in northern Thailand, was bitten on the thigh two years ago by what her family say was a mosquito. But it has triggered a mysterious condition.
  
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• No new antidepressants likely in next decade, say scientists

  11-01-2017 18:30
  
  NHS and healthcare providers don’t want to foot the bill for expensive drugs so pharmaceuticals unwilling to invest in researchNo new drugs for depression are likely in the next decade, even though those like Prozac work for little more than half of those treated and there have been concerns over their side effects, say scientists.Leading psychiatrists, some of whom have been involved in drug development, say criticism of the antidepressants of the Prozac class, called the SSRIs (selective
  
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• Trump says pharmaceutical companies 'getting away with murder'

  11-01-2017 18:29
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said pharmaceutical companies are "getting away with murder" in the prices that they charge the government for medicines, and promised that would change. Trump has made few public comments about drug pricing since he was elected but his campaign platform had included allowing the Medicare healthcare program to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, which the law currently prohibits. The comments knocked down shares of biotech
  
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• Italian PM Gentiloni's heart procedure completely successful - doctors

  11-01-2017 18:28
  By Steve Scherer and Antonella Cinelli ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni is making an excellent recovery following a "completely successful" heart procedure at a Rome hospital, doctors said on Wednesday. "The full success of the intervention was confirmed this afternoon by the excellent clinical progress being made by the premier," a medical bulletin from Rome's Gemelli hospital said. The procedure, which widens a narrow or obstructed artery or vein by stenting, was done af
  
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• Killer Breivik wants to spread ever more radical Nazi ideology -Norway

  11-01-2017 18:26
  By Alister Doyle SKIEN, Norway (Reuters) - Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik wants to spread his ever more radical Nazi-style ideology, Norway's attorney general said on Wednesday in defending Breivik's near-isolation in jail after a court ruled the conditions breached his rights. Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011 in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity, still believed in a fascist revolution led by white supremacists, attorney general Fredrik Sejersted said. Sejersted defended the restriction
  
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• Carter: Guinea Worm disease reported in 3 countries in 2016

  11-01-2017 18:22
  Former President Jimmy Carter, who has been working for years to eradicate Guinea worm disease, says there were only 25 human cases of the illness reported worldwide in 2016.
  
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• Blogger Gabi Gregg Shows That Cellulite Is 'Normal' and Can Disappear Depending on Lighting

  11-01-2017 18:18
  
  This article originally appeared on People.com.Gabi Gregg, aka GabiFresh, is showing that you don’t need miracle creams or plastic surgery procedures to get rid of cellulite—you just need good lighting.The body positive blogger, 30, shared a video on Instagram on Monday from her swimsuitsforall campaign shoot, in which her cellulite seems to disappear and reappear as she walks up and down a mirrored runway in a black one-piece.“Reminder that cellulite is normal and no
  
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• Former VW CEO Winterkorn to appear before German parliamentary committee - lawmaker

  11-01-2017 18:13
  Former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn will appear next week before a German parliamentary committee tasked with looking into whether the government had any role in the carmaker's diesel emissions scandal, a lawmaker said. Winterkorn, who ran Europe's largest automaker for almost nine years before he resigned days after Volkswagen's (VW) manipulations emerged in September 2015, will attend a meeting of the Bundestag's committee of inquiry on Jan. 19, lawmaker Herbert Behrens, head o
  
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• Guard your skin from pollution damage

  11-01-2017 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IT’S WELL known how dangerous air pollution is to health. Just last week a report revealed it could cause dementia.
  
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• The First 5 Things Nutritionists Will Tell You To Cut From Your Diet If You Want To Lose Weight

  11-01-2017 18:04
  
  Time to say ‘bye.’
  
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• NHS England chief says May 'stretching it' to say NHS getting more extra money than it asked for - politics live

  11-01-2017 17:50
  
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQsPMQs - Snap verdictPMQs - VerdictPMQs - Verdict from the Twitter commentariatLunchtime summary 4.50pm GMTNorman Lamb, the Lib Dem health spokesman, has put out this response to Simon Stevens’ comments about the NHS not getting all the money it wanted. He said:These worrying comments reinforce the case for a fresh approach to NHS funding.The government must stop trying t
  
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• Italy PM's heart procedure was complete success - hospital

  11-01-2017 17:44
  The heart procedure performed on Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni was a complete success and he is making an excellent recovery, doctors said on Wednesday. The 62-year-old Gentiloni, who took office last month, had an emergency angioplasty to unblock an obstructed blood vessel of the heart late on Tuesday.
  
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• Lost Sleep Calculator reveals just how tired you really are and prepare to be shocked

  11-01-2017 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new tool will reveal your sleep loss to show your weekly, monthly, yearly and even lifetime deprivation, as well as what else you could have done in that time.
  
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• Knights of Malta defy pope's investigation into sacking of top member

  11-01-2017 17:38
  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The order of the Knights of Malta has refused to cooperate with a Vatican investigation ordered by Pope Francis, in the latest twist of a public spat between two of the world's oldest institutions. All members of the ancient Roman Catholic order, which now runs charities, hospitals and disaster relief in 120 countries, swear allegiance to the pope. Grand Master Matthew Festing fired Grand Chancellor Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, accusing him of all
  
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• 8 Of The Fittest Women On Earth Share Exactly What They Eat Every Day

  11-01-2017 17:22
  
  It’s not just all protein, all the time.
  
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• Want to stay alert as you get older? Learn how to play the piano, scientists say

  11-01-2017 16:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study by researchers at the University de Montreal, Canada, found musicians have faster reaction times than those who are unable to play the piano, drums or a guitar.
  
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• President Obama’s Emotional Tribute To Michelle Proved That They’re #RelationshipGoals

  11-01-2017 16:40
  
  We’re not crying, you’re crying.
  
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• Hospitalized Texas baby soothed by Dallas Cowboys games

  11-01-2017 16:22
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The parents of a Texas baby hospitalized with a congenital heart defect are turning to an unlikely source to soothe her: the Dallas Cowboys.
  
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