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• U.S. Republicans start framework for Obamacare replacement

  13-01-2017 23:47
  By Susan Cornwell and Caroline Humer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Urged on by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Republican lawmakers rushing to scrap Obamacare said this week they hoped to make some changes intended to stabilise the insurance market while they work at repealing and replacing the law. The beginnings of a framework outlining what a post-Obamacare world could look like came in the same week that Congress approved a resolution instructing key committees of both the House of Representativ
  
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• Breakthrough in fixing a broken heart: Researchers use stem cells to regenerate the outer layer of organ

  13-01-2017 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Penn State University have managed to use stem cells to regenerate the outer layer of our heart - the epicardium. The research could be useful for patients who've had heart attacks.
  
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• 6 Things Everyone Googled Last Year To Get Off

  13-01-2017 23:18
  
  Hot moms and sexy massages, FTW.
  
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• 'I Was Overweight For Years Before I Tried This Healthy-Eating Plan And Lost 51 Pounds'

  13-01-2017 22:45
  
  Once Samantha Sutton found a plan that didn't restrict her, she was able to keep the weight off for good.
  
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• You’ll Want To Add This Lunge To The Beginning of Every Workout

  13-01-2017 22:33
  
  It’s especially good if you’ve got tight hips.
  
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• 'I Quit Diet Soda For A Month—Here's What Happened’

  13-01-2017 22:33
  
  "To me, carbonation is like an orgasm for your esophagus.”
  
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• In early GOP win on health care repeal, Congress OKs budget

  13-01-2017 22:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Ascendant Republicans drove a budget through Congress on Friday that gives them an early but critical victory in their crusade to scrap President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
  
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• Try These BodyPump Moves At Home To Tone Your Whole Bod

  13-01-2017 22:07
  
  Time to pump it up.
  
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• U.S. House votes to begin repealing Obamacare

  13-01-2017 22:06
  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans on Friday won passage of a measure starting the process of dismantling Obamacare, despite concerns about not having a ready replacement and the potential financial cost of repealing President Barack Obama's landmark health insurance law. The House voted 227-198 to instruct committees to draft legislation by a target date of Jan. 27 that would repeal the 2010 Affordable Health Care Act, often called Obamacare. The S
  
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• Race to make vaccine for the PLAGUE amid fears terrorists could use it to kill millions

  13-01-2017 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Texas, backed by the Department of Defense, warn Yersinia pestis is one of the most likely candidates for a bioweapon.
  
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• Screen time is GOOD for teen brains: Why 257 minutes is the 'sweet spot' before computers damage mental health and behavior

  13-01-2017 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Oxford have calculated the 'sweet spot' at which point young people get the most out of online activity: 257 minutes.
  
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• London NHS hospital trust hit by cyber-attack

  13-01-2017 21:21
  
  Barts health NHS trust warns staff and takes ‘a number of drives offline’ as it urgently investigates phishing ambushThe largest NHS trust in England has been hit by a cyber-attack that could affect thousands of files across at least four London hospitals.Barts health trust, which runs five hospitals in east London – the Royal London, St Bartholomew’s, Whipps Cross, Mile End and Newham – has sent a message to staff urging them not to open email attachments from unkn
  
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• Personalized IRS letters nudge uninsured to get coverage

  13-01-2017 20:44
  
  If you haven't signed up for health insurance, you may soon be getting a not-too-subtle nudge from the taxman. The IRS is sending personalized letters to millions of taxpayers who might be uninsured, reminding ...
  
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• In early step to void health law, Congress nears budget OK

  13-01-2017 20:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Signaling their determination to plunge into a defining and risky battle, congressional Republicans neared approval Friday of a budget taking an early but crucial step toward scrapping President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and putting the onus on themselves and Donald Trump to replace it.
  
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• How much protein do you REALLY need? Less than you think, a dietitian explains 

  13-01-2017 20:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The public are encouraged to believe that their own diets are in some way lacking in protein, and that they need to focus on their protein intake to make up for some sort of deficit, a dietitian warns.
  
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• 8 Makeup Tips That Will Get You Carded

  13-01-2017 20:24
  
  Take years off of your look with these expert ideas.
  
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• Let’s be honest about socialism’s paradoxes | Letters

  13-01-2017 19:55
  
  The question arising from Owen Jones’s article (How the Tories are victimising young people, 12 January) has to be: is socialism choking itself to death on its own inherent contradictions? Has the past 50 years been a good period in history, or has it not? If it could be repeated, should it be repeated? If the parental generation has spent its children’s future, how does the next generation suppose it can avoid doing the same to its children?Jones reports that rates of depression and
  
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• Avocado emergency nearly cost my finger | Letters

  13-01-2017 19:54
  
  I love Claire Ptak’s recipes, but the photograph showing her removing the stone from an avocado – holding the fruit in the palm of her left hand while tapping the stone with the knife held in her right – for her chocolate avocado mousse, made me blanch (Let there be light, Cook, 7 January).I used this method once after seeing it illustrated in a magazine. The knife went straight through the avocado and nearly cut my finger off, resulting in 11 stitches and plastic surgery on th
  
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• 193,000 NHS patients a month waiting beyond target time for surgery

  13-01-2017 19:38
  
  Royal College of Surgeons says sharp rise in numbers waiting longer than 18 weeks suggest NHS has passed a tipping pointAn increasing number of patients are having to endure long waits for operations, according to a study that provides the latest evidence of the NHS’s failure to meet waiting time targets because hospitals are so busy.
  Analysis by the Royal College of Surgeons found that over the past year an average of 193,406 people a month did not get surgery within 18 weeks of being ref
  
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• Teenage suicide: Two mothers tell their children's stories

  13-01-2017 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With teenage suicide on the rise, we hear the struggles of two mothers and their children.
  
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• Gagging for a drink but trying to take part in Dry January? Read our guide to help you make it through...

  13-01-2017 19:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Dr Gary Bolger, chief medical officer at AXA PPP healthcare - a UK-based insurance agency - reveals his top six tips to help you cut down on your alcohol intake this month.
  
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• How stress puts us at a higher risk of heart attack

  13-01-2017 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Harvard Medical School have directly linked anxiety and stress to cardiovascular disease for the first time - and discovered exactly why the two are linked.
  
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• Girl, 5, forced to spend Christmas in hospital after slight headache turned out to be aggressive brain cancer

  13-01-2017 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rylee Bernosky, 5, from Florida, went to the hospital complaining of a headache. Doctors found a rare brain tumor. She is now looking a 6-8 months of chemotherapy and radiation.
  
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• Nevada woman killed by superbug resistant to EVERY antibiotic in the US 

  13-01-2017 19:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Reno doctors tried to cure the 70-year-old patient with 26 antibiotics after she was admitted to an acute care hospital in mid-August 2016. But nothing stood up against the aggressive bacteria.
  
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• 7 Gross Skin Problems You Can Get From Having Sex

  13-01-2017 18:41
  
  Don’t freak, they’re not all STDs.
  
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• Can The GOLO Diet Help You Lose Weight?

  13-01-2017 18:38
  
  Here’s what you need to know about the internet’s most-searched diet.
  
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• Startup investors fret over risks of mass data collection

  13-01-2017 18:31
  By Heather Somerville SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (Reuters) - Nearly every technology startup wants the same thing: more data. Whether ordering an Uber, streaming music, shopping online or tracking a health condition, consumers are giving an unprecedented amount of information to technology companies. Collecting big data helps Airbnb, for instance, know whether its customers prefer to travel to the beach or mountains, and Uber knows popular drop-off locations and how to price trips.
  
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• Ohio seeks drug reversing lethal injection process if needed

  13-01-2017 18:27
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's prisons agency is trying to obtain a drug that could reverse the lethal injection process if needed by stopping the effects of another drug previously used in problematic executions.
  
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• Are you seeing ghosts? Get yourself to an optician NOT an exorcist, leading expert warns

  13-01-2017 18:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr David Allamby, a laser eye surgeon at London's Focus Clinic, says hallucinations can be caused by Charles Bonnet syndrome that affects people who have experienced vision loss.
  
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• Don't want to get dementia? Then have a chicory salad for lunch as it stops the build-up of toxic brain clumps

  13-01-2017 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chicoric acid was found to prevent the formation of toxic clumps, the signature hallmark of Alzheimer's disease that are known as amyloid plaques, in the brain, Chinese researchers discovered.
  
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• Race to make vaccine for the PLAGUE amid fears terrorists could be turning it into a weapon to wipe out millions

  13-01-2017 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Texas, backed by the Department of Defense, warn Yersinia pestis is one of the most likely candidates for a bioweapon.
  
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• 'NHS is under pressure', says Theresa May

  13-01-2017 17:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Theresa May admits the NHS is under pressure, while paying tribute to medical staff.
  
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• The One Thing This Cancer Patient Says Saved Her Life During Treatment

  13-01-2017 17:37
  
  Blogger Xeni Jardin's story gathered thousands of retweets.
  
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• How to avoid temptation during dry January | Abi Wilkinson

  13-01-2017 17:35
  
  Are social pressure, awkward gaps in conversations and a dread of sober dancing weakening your resolve to cut out the booze? Fear notThere’s no better time to try and quit booze than in January. Following weeks of festive over-indulgence, at least some of the people around you are also likely to be thinking about cutting down. Requesting a lime and soda rather than your usual gin and tonic when someone gets a round often elicits an understanding nod. “Dry January, is it?” The b
  
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• Being bilingual makes your brain more efficient and could stop you getting dementia

  13-01-2017 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Montreal were interested to see how the brain functioned in elderly people who are monolingual versus those who are bilingual (stock image).
  
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• Sick kitty: NYC quarantines 500 felines fearing the flu

  13-01-2017 16:58
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of homeless New York City cats have been quarantined after health officials discovered many infected with a strand of bird flu.
  
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• For the chop

  13-01-2017 16:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Is it true that the government plans to cut one-third of NHS beds in England?
  
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• Superbug WARNING: Patient dies from sepsis after rare infection resists 26 drugs

  13-01-2017 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A PATIENT who acquired a rare infection in India has died despite doctors attempting treatment with 26 different stains of antibiotic.
  
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• Sprinting for 40 seconds each day can make you 12% fitter

  13-01-2017 16:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Stirling found only 10 minutes of walking, interspersed with two 20-second bursts of sprinting as fast as someone can, could make an inactive person 12 per cent fitter.
  
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• Exactly How Gynos Treat Their Own Cramps

  13-01-2017 16:44
  
  Dark chocolate is involved.
  
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• Our microbe ancestors revealed: Scientists may have finally found where complex life came from 

  13-01-2017 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Sweden have pinned downmicrobes from which all complex life evolved. The microbes have been named Loki, Thor, Odin, and Heimdall, after the gods of Norse mythology.
  
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• Do YOU recognise these 12 signs of breast cancer?  

  13-01-2017 16:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A photo showing lemons with breast cancer 'symptoms' such as puckered skin and leaking fluid has gone viral after being shared by a cancer patient on Facebook.
  
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• Four in 10 NHS hospitals declared major alert in their A&E departments

  13-01-2017 15:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Overall, NHS hospitals issued 226 serious alerts in the first week of 2017, saying they were experiencing major pressures in their A&E departments.
  
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• Digested week: Trump showers satirists with gifts

  13-01-2017 15:58
  
  It’s been a good few years to be a UK political sketch writer, but it would be great to be in the US right nowEven if it was primarily intended as a diversionary tactic to stop people asking her about Brexit for a few days, it was good to hear Theresa May talking about making mental health a priority. Though I couldn’t help thinking her words might have sounded a little more sincere if she had offered a little more than the £1bn for mental health services that David Cameron had
  
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• Family release pictures of MS-suffering mother in her final days of 'torture'

  13-01-2017 15:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Flora Lormier, from Glenrothes, had begged her husband and daughter to help her die over a period of two years. When she passed away naturally in December, she was left in a fragile state.
  
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• Boy, 5, dies following his battle with an ultra-rare fatal brain tumour PNET

  13-01-2017 15:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Joshua McCormack, from Lancashire, was one of just 66 people in the world with an aggressive primitive neuroectodermal tumour. His mother broke the devastating news of his death on Facebook.
  
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• Stephanie Sanzo who rose to fame on Instagram only does weights

  13-01-2017 15:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When Stephanie Sanzo, 29, was younger, she hated everything to do with exercise and refused to go anywhere near a gym. Now, Ms Sanzo is a personal trainer, feels fitter and healthier than ever.
  
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• Ruby Connar and daughter, 13, both finish cancer treatment on the same day

  13-01-2017 14:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ruby Connar, 13, from Exeter, was diagnosed with leukaemia five years ago. But while undergoing chemotherapy, her mother, Josie, 48, also discovered a cancerous lump on her breast.
  
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• Major alerts 'at many hospitals'

  13-01-2017 14:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Over four in 10 hospitals in England declared a major alert in the first week of the year.
  
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• Cervical cancer: 'Our sister's symptoms were missed'

  13-01-2017 13:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amber Cliff's family say that she was deemed too young to be tested, despite her symptoms.
  
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