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• Take the test that reveals if you HEAR flashes of light

  17-01-2017 23:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study has found that roughly one in five people experience auditory sensations when viewing silent stimuli, suggesting it’s far more common than previously thought.
  
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• All The Things You Should Never Say To A Pregnant Friend Who’s Struggled With Infertility

  17-01-2017 23:50
  
  ‘Hey, you finally figured out how babies are made!’
  
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• Artificial intelligence can predict heart failure

  17-01-2017 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists in London have developed artificial intelligence using a 'virtual 3D heart' that can predict when patients with a serious heart disorder will die with 80 percent accuracy.
  
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• 10 Things to Make with Avocado That Aren’t Guac

  17-01-2017 23:20
  
  …Or avocado toast.
  
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• McConnell introduces bill to fund coal miner health plans

  17-01-2017 23:18
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell on Tuesday introduced legislation to maintain health benefits for retired union coal miners whose companies have declared bankruptcy in recent years.
  
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• 18 million more uninsured if Obamacare killed, not replaced

  17-01-2017 22:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Insurance premiums would soar for millions of Americans and 18 million more would be uninsured in just one year if Republicans scuttle much of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul without a replacement, Congress' budget analysts said Tuesday.
  
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• What Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You on Twitter

  17-01-2017 22:40
  
  This article originally appeared on Time.com.Cancer doctors with Twitter accounts have something else in common: more than 70% of them receive funding from drug companies, according to a new research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.In the study, researchers identified 634 hematologist-oncologists who were active on Twitter and looked up whether they received personal payments from drug companies, unrelated to research or grants, in 2014. Most of them did: 72%
  
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• This Is Why Emma Watson Turned Down ‘Cinderella’ But Not ‘Beauty And The Beast’

  17-01-2017 22:29
  
  Add this to the list of reasons we love Emma.
  
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• 9 Things Successful Women Do Before Breakfast

  17-01-2017 22:23
  
  Start your day on the right foot.
  
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• Gun industry, suicide prevention forge unlikely alliance

  17-01-2017 22:11
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — It's a difficult topic to discuss, fraught with politics and social stigma, and an even tougher one to fix: people who kill themselves with a gun. But now two unlikely allies — the gun industry and a leading suicide prevention group — are coming together to tackle it.
  
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• 'I Went To Therapy To Lose Weight—Here’s What I Learned'

  17-01-2017 22:10
  
  After countless diets failed, Sarah decided she needed something more to help her get in shape.
  
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• Dieting won't stop you getting diabetes, research shows

  17-01-2017 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eating food triggers a response in humans by producing a type of immune cell. These then create IL-1beta in varying amounts, dependent on blood glucose levels, Swiss experts found.
  
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• Cut calories by a fifth to reduce your chance of cancer

  17-01-2017 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Not eating after 5pm and before 8am really does play a role in allowing people to lose weight, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Institute of Ageing found.
  
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• Women cope with symptoms of colds better than men 

  17-01-2017 21:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A survey of 2,000 parents found that moms will get sick an average of 324 times during their kids' childhood due to sickness being passed to them as they nurse their offspring back to health.
  
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• University of Pavia reveal why gossiping is GOOD for you

  17-01-2017 21:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Pavia in Italy studied the effects of gossipin women and found it causes the release of oxytocin, a hormone that helps bring people closer together (stock image)
  
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• Long-term dangers of the 21st birthday bender

  17-01-2017 21:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Students who binge-drink on their 21st birthday are more likely to become future heavy drinkers, a new University of Washington study warns.
  
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• NHS will need £88bn extra by 2067, says OBR forecast

  17-01-2017 21:02
  
  Report says budget will need to rise by 2% a year over next 50 years, taking up an increasing proportion of GDPThe NHS budget will need to increase by £88bn over the next 50 years, meaning governments could have to raise taxes or cut spending in other areas to fund it, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has said.The soaring costs threaten to render public finances generally “unsustainable”, according to the OBR’s latest fiscal sustainability report. It says the go
  
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• A third of those diagnosed with asthma DON'T have it

  17-01-2017 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 90 per cent of those diagnosed with asthma were able to stop their medications and remained safely without drugs for a year, researchers from the University of Ottawa found.
  
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• Ask Yourself These Questions Before Starting a New Workout to Get Better Results

  17-01-2017 20:52
  
  They can save you a lot of wasted hours at the gym.
  
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• 18M more Americans would be uninsured under 2016 GOP repeal

  17-01-2017 20:24
  Insurance premiums would soar and some 18 million Americans would lose health coverage if Republicans partially repeal President Barack Obama's health care law without a replacement, Congress' nonpartisan ...
  
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• The urgent need to tackle the crisis in adult social care | Letters

  17-01-2017 20:05
  
  We write to you as 45 former directors of social services with many decades of senior management experience behind us, to express our grave concerns about the current underfunding of adult social care services. Not a day goes by without well-informed groups expressing their dismay at the outcomes for vulnerable adults. Yet despite this the chancellor made no mention of this issue in his autumn statement.We know that £4.2bn has been taken from local authority budgets over the past five year
  
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• NHS 111 helpline is harming children and causing deaths

  17-01-2017 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Preventable mistakes in treating children led to 12 deaths, 41 cases of severe harm and 658 cases of minor harm in England and Wales, a new report by Cardiff University found.
  
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• A can of Spam is less dangerous these days | Brief letters

  17-01-2017 20:04
  
  Red meat cancer link | Charges against Lula | Robots as people | Ring pull safety | Peanut butter on WeetabixNaomi Elster writes: “There isn’t currently any strong evidence that eating too much red meat causes cancer”, before noting that Cancer Research UK is a “reliable source … for advice and support” (The truth about cancer diets, G2, 16 January). However, responding to the WHO’s October 2015 International Agency for Research on Cancer report which c
  
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• The 5 Emotional Stages Everyone Goes Through While Trying To Lose Weight

  17-01-2017 19:56
  
  The honeymoon phase is short—yet so, so sweet.
  
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• When He Just Can’t Seem To Orgasm With You

  17-01-2017 18:33
  
  The problem is more common than you think—here’s what to do.
  
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• Colorado girl is diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy

  17-01-2017 18:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At two years old, Lexi Pacini, from Colorado, was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, which weakens the physical muscles. A new drug is helping her learn to walk but her future is unclear.
  
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• 'Wait and see' no longer an option for disaster response - IFRC chief

  17-01-2017 18:14
  By Astrid Zweynert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments need to step up efforts in preparing for disasters to cut the rising bill for helping people hit by crises, the head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said. "We see much more money being spent in responding to disasters and very little in preventing them," Sy told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview. Sy said a fresh approach to funding is critical as humanitarian needs hav
  
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• DIABETES WARNING: Suffering in middle age 'could cut a DECADE off your life'

  17-01-2017 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SUFFERING from diabetes in middle age could take up to a decade off your life, according to new research.
  
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• CBO: Premiums, uninsured up under 2016 GOP health law repeal

  17-01-2017 18:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums and the number of uninsured would soar under a Republican bill Congress passed last year scuttling President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, lawmakers' nonpartisan budget analyst estimated Tuesday in a report underlining the GOP's risks in its fresh push to dismantle and replace the health law.
  
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• This Unfiltered Photo Shows What A Post-Baby Body REALLY Looks Like

  17-01-2017 17:53
  
  No b.s. from DWTS pro Peta Murgatroyd.
  
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• Research shows that children who ski are better at school

  17-01-2017 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  German sports scientist Frieder Beck analysedhow movement affects the brain. He believes that because skiing needs planning and concentration skills, it sharpens a child's mind.
  
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• Czech boars still radioactive 31 years after Chernobyl

  17-01-2017 17:47
  PRAGUE (AP) — An agency in the Czech Republic says about a half of all wild boars in the country's southwest are radioactive and considered unsafe for consumption due to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
  
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• 5 Scary Reasons Why You Might Be Coughing So Much

  17-01-2017 17:37
  
  When to ditch the cough drops and head to the doctor, ASAP.
  
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• Oxford professor says diabetes cuts life by 10 YEARS

  17-01-2017 17:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A University of Oxford study of half a million people found those diagnosed with diabetes before 50 lived 10 years less than those without the condition, and were half as likely to reach 75.
  
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• Abortions in US drop to lowest level since 1974

  17-01-2017 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The report, which counted 926,200 abortions in 2014, was released on Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute. It concluded the drop is largely due to wider availability of effective contraception.
  
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• 'Fasting' for 12 hours every night is key to losing weight

  17-01-2017 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Not eating after 5pm and before 8am really does play a role in allowing people to lose weight, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Institute of Ageing found.
  
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• Young royals urge Britons to talk more about mental health issues

  17-01-2017 16:53
  Britain's Prince William, his wife Catherine and his brother Harry urged Britons on Tuesday to talk more openly about mental health issues, saying too many people suffer in silence. Long-standing supporters of mental health initiatives, they launched the "Heads Together" campaign in 2016, which works with charities to help tackle the stigma around mental health. "There are times when whoever we are, it is hard to cope with challenges and when that happens, being open and honest and asking for he
  
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• Women Share Body Positive Stories with #GainingWeightIsCool Trend on Twitter

  17-01-2017 16:48
  
  This article originally appeared on People.com.On January 1, many people resolve to lose weight in the New Year — but not Arianna Dantone.The body positive social media star and fitness coach posted a tweet on New Year’s Day with side-to-side photos of her body before and after gaining weight while getting more fit. She posted the photos — which have been “liked” 1.8k times — with the caption “Gaining weight is cool.”Dantone then asked other w
  
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• Keep your fish in the fridge for ONE DAY

  17-01-2017 16:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Good Housekeeping has revealed how long you should keep foods in the fridge - and some of the times are surprisingly short. It's just one day for shellfish and fish but two weeks for smoked salmon.
  
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• Vatican orders Knights of Malta to cooperate with papal inquiry

  17-01-2017 15:39
  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican demanded on Tuesday that the leaders of the Knights of Malta, a worldwide Catholic chivalric and charity group, cooperate with an inquiry into alleged irregularities ordered by Pope Francis. In the latest salvo of a battle of wills between the heads of two of the world's oldest institutions, a Vatican statement also rejected what it said was an attempt by the Rome-based Knights to discredit members of a papal commission of inquiry. Both sid
  
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• The sad truth about having a baby: ‘cattle’ care is now the norm | Milli Hill

  17-01-2017 15:39
  
  A new report confirms our worst fears about lack of midwives and lack of continuity. The situation is frustrating and dangerous – and it’s getting worseIt’s the most important, meaningful and – for many – anxiety-provoking day of your life. You’re going to experience the rare privilege of being at the centre of the action as a new life begins. Added to this, you may well be naked and somewhat indisposed. Who would you choose to be with you? Someone you know an
  
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• Watching James Bond could encourage you to SMOKE

  17-01-2017 15:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite kicking the bad habit in 2002, James Bond continues to be exposed to second-hand smoke from his sexual partners, experts from the University of Otago, New Zealand say.
  
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• Mothers-to-be 'treated like cattle' in NHS hospitals

  17-01-2017 15:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A report by the National Childbirth Trust warns that a desperate lack of midwives and cash has left Britain's labour wards in ‘crisis', with mothers being treated like ‘products on a conveyor belt' at hospitals.
  
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• London schoolgirl discovers GROWING PAINS were cancer

  17-01-2017 14:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ashleigh Massey, from Chessington, struggled with the discomfort in her right leg when it first began in September. But after going to hospital a month later, she was found to have osteosarcoma.
  
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• Doctor Nestor says going dairy-free can damage your skin

  17-01-2017 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cosmetic doctor Dr Nestor Demosthenous highlights the pitfalls of going vegan, including a lack of calcium and being exposed to added sugar - which can wreak havoc with your skin and bone structure.
  
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• US abortion rate is lowest since Roe v Wade – but contraception access may go

  17-01-2017 14:00
  
  Study finds strong indication contraception access linked to abortion fallRepublican Affordable Care Act repeal would end easier access to birth controlThe rate of abortion in the US reached a lower level in 2014 than in any other year since the procedure first became legal, a study has found, a decline that appears to be due to the widespread use of contraception producing a drop in unintended pregnancies.Related: Tennessee woman jailed for attempting abortion accepts plea deal for releaseRelat
  
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• The NHS no longer has the resources to care for our sick population | Zara Aziz

  17-01-2017 13:00
  
  The government is in denial - the chronic underfunding of the health service is bad for patients and staffHospitals and GP surgeries have always had a symbiotic relationship and the hospital crisis this winter has had a significant impact on the way that we are able to offer care to patients in the community.In our practice, demand has not changed significantly as far as minor illnesses are concerned. We had an expectation of winter pressures and planned for more urgent appointments across all d
  
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• Iraqis who escaped Islamic State grapple with trauma

  17-01-2017 12:59
  By Stephen Kalin DEBAGA, Iraq (Reuters) - While fleeing Islamic State rule in northern Iraq three months ago, Laila saw two of her daughters die in front of her. Crippled by grief and the trauma of that night, she now struggles to walk and hardly eats.
  
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• Corbyn blames Tories, but look at Labour-run Wales

  17-01-2017 12:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pictures taken by a relative of a patient showed a nine-strong queue of desperately-ill people waiting to see a doctor at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Wales.
  
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• Healthcare costs threaten Britain's aim to balance budget - watchdog

  17-01-2017 12:40
  Britain's official budget watchdog said rising healthcare costs could make it harder for Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond to achieve his goal of balancing the government's budget in the next parliament starting in 2020. Rising healthcare costs also look set to put the public finances on an "unsustainable" path in the longer term without tax increases or more cuts in public spending, the Office for Budget Responsibility said in a report on fiscal sustainability. "The fiscal challenge fr
  
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