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• 7 Celebrities Get Real About Their Struggles With Anxiety

  19-01-2017 23:50
  
  Here’s how they learned how to cope.
  
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• Cutting calories could reduce your risk of disease by 40%

  19-01-2017 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study on monkeys by the University of Wisconsin and the National Institutes on Ageing found we would all lower our risk of age-related diseases if we cut calorie intake by 30 percent.
  
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• Could this jab STOP genital herpes?

  19-01-2017 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Around 500 million people have genital herpes. But no experimental jab has ever achieved strong or consistent results in a clinical trial. Now, a jab at the University of Pennsylvania, has.
  
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• Kim Kardashian Just Shared Her Favorite Atkins Meal On Instagram

  19-01-2017 23:16
  
  Hint: It's Italian.
  
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• Nurse shifts left unfilled at nearly every hospital in England, figures show

  19-01-2017 23:00
  
  Analysis of official data finds 96% of NHS hospital trusts had fewer nurses covering day shifts than they had plannedAlmost every hospital in England has fewer nurses on duty than each believes are needed to guarantee safe patient care, research shows.Analysis of official data by the Health Service Journal (HSJ) found that 96% of NHS hospital trusts in England had fewer nurses covering day shifts in October than they had planned and 85% did not have the desired number working at night. Continue
  
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• Andrew Wardle: Man born without penis has bionic one made

  19-01-2017 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Andrew Wardle, 44, from Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, was born with an ectopic bladder, meaning it formed on the outside of his body.
  
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• Report: NYPD mental health training needs better utilization

  19-01-2017 22:16
  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has trained more than 5,000 police officers on how to handle mental health crisis calls but doesn't have a way to dispatch those officers when the calls come in, according to a report published Thursday.
  
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• Study finds 1 in 5 adults access others' Facebook

  19-01-2017 22:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of British Columbia found that 1 in 5 US adults have snooped through their friend's, romantic partner's or family member's Facebook account – and they used the victim's own device.
  
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• Research reveals why time seems to fly by or slow down

  19-01-2017 21:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A researcher at Eckerd College in Florida has looked at why a few minutes may seem to last 'forever' when we’re waiting for a light to turn green.
  
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• Why exercise doesn't always help your health

  19-01-2017 21:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study by the National Institutes of Health found mice who had one big spurt of exercise during the day were lazier the rest of the time. It meant their overall physical activity leveled out.
  
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• 10 Sexy Yoga Videos That Might Actually Turn You On

  19-01-2017 21:02
  
  We can’t look away.
  
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• France says duck cull mostly over as bird flu stabilises

  19-01-2017 20:43
  France will scale back preventive slaughtering of ducks to counter bird flu after the culling of 800,000 birds this month helped slow the spread of the disease in the southwest, the country's agriculture minister said on Thursday. France resorted to a mass cull after the highly contagious H5N8 strain of bird flu started spreading among farms in the southwest, the country's main production zone for the duck and goose liver speciality foie gras. "We have passed the peak in preventive culling," Ste
  
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• Germany legalises cannabis for medicinal purposes

  19-01-2017 20:41
  Germany's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a law that legalises the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes for people who are chronically ill. "Those who are severely ill need to get the best possible treatment and that includes health insurance funds paying for cannabis as a medicine for those who are chronically ill if they can't be effectively treated any other way," said Health Minister Hermann Groehe. Until now patients had only been able to get access to cannabis for medicinal
  
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• German MPs vote to legalise cannabis for medicinal purposes

  19-01-2017 20:31
  
  Lower house of parliament passes law that allows people with chronic and serious illnesses to get marijuana on prescriptionGermany’s lower house of parliament has passed a law legalising the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. People with serious illnesses, such as multiple sclerosis and chronic pain, or a lack of appetite or nausea, could be offered marijuana under the law. Continue reading...
  
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• We are all responsible for proper social care | Letters

  19-01-2017 20:25
  
  As a retired nurse, I agree with your correspondents on the crisis in social care (Letters, 17 January), but it’s about time we all took some responsibility for providing for care in our old age ourselves. I cannot believe how so many people think it’s not going to happen to them, when the statistics are out there and they are already looking after elderly relatives. In this day and age, it should not be down to the state to look after everyone in later life.While I agree we should b
  
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• DEMENTIA NEWS: Leisure activities in middle age 'can help stave off disease in later life'

  19-01-2017 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A TRIP to the theatre or a gallery in middle age can help stave off dementia later in life, according to new research.
  
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• Almost 50% of U.S. men have HPV reveals JAMA report

  19-01-2017 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Federal data show HPV is least common among men aged 18 to 22 years old, affecting 29 percent of them. Once they hit 23, however, diagnoses rocket to 46.5 percent. But vaccine coverage is low.
  
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• J.Lo Rocked This Drugstore Hair Accessory At The People’s Choice Awards

  19-01-2017 19:33
  
  After all this time, she's still Jenny from the block.
  
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• Breakthrough as 11-year-old boy receives artificial heart

  19-01-2017 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jaheim Whigham, 11, from Illinois, is the youngest person in the world to receive an artificial heart. He had a heart transplant when he was 7 but, lastyear, his body began rejecting it.
  
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• Key to staying young revealed by Dr Elizabeth Blackburn

  19-01-2017 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Too many fizzy drinks can age you as fast as smoking, making parts of the body almost five years older biologically, says Dr Elizabeth Blackburn, from the University of California, San Francisco.
  
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• Wigan man turned stiff from ultra rare condition FOP dies

  19-01-2017 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Adrian Berry, 40, from Wigan, suffered from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. He passed away with pneumonia on Boxing Day (pictured with friends on his 40th birthday).
  
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• This Fitness Blogger’s Photo of Her Belly Rolls Is Going Viral for All the Right Reasons

  19-01-2017 18:59
  
  She's showing you the truth behind those fitspo Instagrams.
  
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• UK court rejects bid for bridge to be recognized as sport

  19-01-2017 18:15
  LONDON (AP) — Bridge players who want the card game recognized as a sport have lost their latest legal bid in Britain.
  
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• Study: Texas abortions declined as clinics got farther away

  19-01-2017 18:12
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Researchers say the number of abortions performed throughout Texas dropped after a 2013 law forced the closure of clinics in all but the largest cities, and the decline was steeper the farther a woman lived from a remaining clinic.
  
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• Discovered: a protein that could diagnose dementia early

  19-01-2017 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An accumulation of tau protein in the brain are to blame for causing the spatial disorientation experienced by many patients, researchers from Columbia University Medical Center found.
  
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• The One Trick This Happy Couple Swears By To Avoid Fights

  19-01-2017 17:59
  
  Don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it.
  
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• Deadly air strike on Nigerian refugee camp sparks U.N. call for investigation

  19-01-2017 17:55
  By Kieran Guilbert MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A botched military air strike on a refugee camp in northeast Nigeria which is estimated to have killed at least 76 people and injured many more must be fully investigated, a United Nations expert said on Thursday. The Nigerian government said the bombing on Tuesday of the camp in Rann in Borno state, the heart of Boko Haram's seven-year bid to create an Islamic caliphate, was aimed at the militants and called it a "regrettable
  
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• The 6 Best Yoga Poses To Do If You’re Bloated

  19-01-2017 17:52
  
  Flat belly, coming your way.
  
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• 9 Foods You Should Never Eat When You're Sick

  19-01-2017 17:45
  
  Turns out we were all wrong about OJ.
  
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• Nairn cataract patient's 12-month waiting time criticised at FMQs

  19-01-2017 17:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman faces a minimum wait of 12 months for a consultation about surgery for a cataract, MSPs have heard.
  
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• 1 in 4 US men have cancer-linked HPV genital infections

  19-01-2017 17:34
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The first national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers.
  
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• Merck CEO sees Keytruda in pole position in cancer race

  19-01-2017 17:10
  By Ben Hirschler DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Merck & Co's Keytruda cancer drug, which last week won a speedy review from U.S. regulators for use with chemotherapy in lung cancer, is in an increasingly strong position in a fiercely competitive market, the company's CEO said on Thursday. Chief Executive Ken Frazier said that Keytruda would also be cheaper than some rival approaches -- an increasingly important consideration in an era of heightened controversy about high drug prices. The U.S
  
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• Why This SoulCycle Instructor Naps Every Day

  19-01-2017 17:07
  
  A day in the life of a teacher at the buzzy fitness studio.
  
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• A fifth of men don't feel guilty about one night stands

  19-01-2017 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While it is conceivable that women feel more regret due to them not having as much pleasure, evolution could be to blame, Norwegian researchers discovered.
  
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• NHS mental health director left suicidal from depression

  19-01-2017 16:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mandy Stevens began to show symptoms in November. But within little more than a week, she was left suicidal and was admitted to the City & Hackney Centre for Mental Health, London.
  
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• Teaching your child Mandarin may help them play the piano

  19-01-2017 16:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Children between the ages of three and five who could speak Mandarin were better at processing pitch, a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, found.
  
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• Karen Glanz says paying people to work out works

  19-01-2017 16:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Karen Glanz, a medical director at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, has published a report telling the CDC that financial incentives are the key to slimming down Americans.
  
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• 'I want to kill these dogs': question of whether to cull strays divides Yangon

  19-01-2017 15:42
  
  Myanmar’s commercial capital is overrun with an estimated 120,000 stray dogs, which attack children and carry the threat of rabies. Mass culling was recently stopped but spay, neuter and vaccinate programmes have yet to startZu May Naing was playing with her brother outside their house in Bago Region, close to Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon, last month when a pack of stray dogs rounded on the 18-month-old.Her mother, San Thar Myint, found her lying prone on the ground, bleedi
  
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• Somali gang rape video sparks call for justice, not fine of camels

  19-01-2017 15:36
  By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of teenage boys who posted a video online of themselves raping two girls must not be allowed to evade jail by paying for their crime in camels, campaigners said, in a case that has sparked outrage in the conservative Horn of Africa country. In the attack last month, six teenage boys forced the girls, aged 14 and 16, into a car and drove them close to the Ethiopian border where they stripped and raped them, taking photographs and video
  
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• Czechs a step away from smoking ban in bars, restaurants

  19-01-2017 14:59
  The Czech Republic is one step away from losing its status of one of the last havens for tobacco smokers in Europe. The Senate, the upper house of Parliament, voted 45-12 on Thursday to approve a smoking ...
  
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• From Athens to Zihuatanejo, a global show of unity for women's rights

  19-01-2017 14:49
  By Magdalena Mis, Ellen Wulfhorst and Nita Bhalla LONDON/NEW YORK/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than one million people are expected to attend women's marches around the world on Saturday to demonstrate against sexism and sexual violence and call for women's rights following the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. A Facebook plea by a Hawaii grandmother to march in response to Trump's election was credited for igniting the global movement, with more than 600 marches plan
  
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• BBC NHS documentary crisis leaves viewers heartbroken

  19-01-2017 14:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One unavailable bed put a stop to Peter Lai, who was in need of surgery in BBC2's Hospital. The team of experts at St Mary's Hospital, London, tried their to find a bed but the patient was sent home.
  
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• Exclusive - Kremlin plans special clinic for Putin's top officials

  19-01-2017 14:15
  By Svetlana Reiter and Pavel Miledin MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin is planning to build an exclusive health clinic for President Vladimir Putin and senior officials, according to documents seen by Reuters and to medical sources familiar with the project. The proposed three-storey building, in the grounds of the Kremlin-run Central Clinical Hospital in a Moscow suburb, will have space for 10 inpatients at a time and communications systems that under Russian law are reserved for the president, pr
  
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• Drug cost-saving plans may hit patients

  19-01-2017 13:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Patients in England may face delays getting new drugs or go without them under NHS cost-cutting plans.
  
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• The foods you should eat for every mood

  19-01-2017 13:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From egg yolks for concentration to sweet potato to relieve anxiety, the nutritionists have shared the ultimate guide to boosting every mood with the right meal.
  
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• Nigerian President Buhari to take medical leave in UK

  19-01-2017 13:00
  By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to Britain on Thursday for medical checks and is expected to resume work on Feb. 6, his spokesman said. The spokesman's statement circulated on Thursday shortly after a letter from Buhari was read out in the upper house of parliament, saying the 74-year-old former military ruler would go on medical leave. "While away the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, will perform the functions of the Office of the President," the s
  
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• Good Health 24/7 on why we should be drinking green tea

  19-01-2017 12:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A mew video by Good Heath 24/7 reveals the bonus health benefits from drinking the tea can give you, from helping you to lose weight to fighter cancer and preventing gum disease.
  
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• Good Housekeeping says keep fish in fridge for ONE DAY

  19-01-2017 12:51 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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• Could Mad Cow Disease be about to return?

  19-01-2017 12:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tests carried out on an 18-year-old animal that died on a farm in County Galway, Ireland, found that it had bovine spongiform encephalopathy. But experts say there is no risk to meat lovers.
  
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• After Pope blessing, Duterte challenges abusive priests to 'showdown'

  19-01-2017 12:26
  By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - Undeterred by a blessing from Pope Francis, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte launched an angry rebuke on Thursday of priests and bishops critical of his drugs war, accusing them of homosexuality, corruption and of abusing children. Duterte was furious over concerns by the Catholic Church of alleged extrajudicial killings during his crackdown and lambasted clergymen for denouncing him instead of using their influence to get people off drugs. In a spee
  
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