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• Teenagers can't smell sweat so they don't notice it 

  22-01-2017 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Adolescents are less likely to notice the smell of sweat, cigarette smoke and soap, according to a new study. Researchersin Denmark tested dozens of common odours on people aged under 50.
  
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• White House vows to fight media 'tooth and nail' over Trump coverage

  22-01-2017 23:23
  By Doina Chiacu and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House vowed on Sunday to fight the news media "tooth and nail" over what it sees as unfair attacks, with a top adviser saying the Trump administration had presented "alternative facts" to counter low inauguration crowd estimates. On his first full day as president, Trump said he had a "running war" with the media and accused journalists of underestimating the number of people who turned out Friday for his swearing-in. White House o
  
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• Youngest children in class more likely to get ADHD medication, study says

  22-01-2017 22:58
  
  Results of a survey in Western Australia raise concerns that problems are being misdiagnosed as age-related immaturityThe youngest children in class are more likely than their older classmates to receive medication for ADHD (attention deficit hpyeractivity disorder), a study has found.The Wester Australian study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, has again raised concerns children are being misdiagnosed with the psychiatric disorder and medicated for what could simply be age-related
  
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• Hypothermia: why most deaths are preventable

  22-01-2017 22:30
  
  New research into the cold weather killer suggests health authorities need to start taking action much earlier in the seasonEarlier this month the cold snap across Europe claimed more than 60 lives. In Poland temperatures fell to below -30°C in some regions and 10 people died of the cold on 8 January alone. Meanwhile in Greece and Turkey refugees and homeless people suffered greatly in the unseasonably heavy snow. The sad thing is that almost all of these deaths were preventable.
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• White House vows to fight media 'tooth and nail' over Trump attacks

  22-01-2017 20:58
  By Doina Chiacu and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House vowed on Sunday to fight the news media "tooth and nail" over what it sees as unfair attacks, with a top adviser saying the Trump administration had presented "alternative facts" to counter low inauguration crowd estimates. On his first full day as president, Trump said he had a "running war" with the media and accused journalists of underestimating the number of people who turned out Friday for his swearing-in. White House o
  
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• Big Brother’s eye on the health service | Letters

  22-01-2017 19:32
  
  Thirty years ago, when I learned that time and motion studies had been used to devise the work rota in the casualty department where I worked, it seemed logical and unthreatening. John Harris’s piece (They call it fun, but the digital giants are turning workers into robots, 21 January) reminded me that when computers in the out-of-hours service started to monitor general practitioners’ activity continuously in 2007 it felt very Big Brotherish. The times patients waited were colour-co
  
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• Brian Neville obituary

  22-01-2017 18:44
  
  Brian Neville, who has died aged 77, was a key figure in the development of paediatric neurology and neurodisability in Britiain. He was the first UK professor of paediatric neurology, appointed in 1989 at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, and Great Ormond Street hospital.Brian was born in Bexleyheath, south-east London, to Louie and George Neville. Brian and his mother moved out of London during the second world war, and his early years were spent in the idyllic setting
  
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• Brazil investigating dozens of suspected yellow fever cases

  22-01-2017 18:11
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian authorities say they've now confirmed 47 cases of yellow fever, and 25 deaths.
  
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• Trump may not enforce individual health insurance mandate - aide

  22-01-2017 18:07
  The Trump administration may no longer enforce a rule requiring individual Americans to carry health insurance or pay a penalty if they do not, a senior White House official said on Sunday Speaking on ABC's "This Week" programme, Kellyanne Conway, counsellor to the president, said President Donald Trump "may stop enforcing the individual mandate." Separately, on CBS' "Face the Nation" show, she reiterated Republican promises that no one would lose their health insurance under Obamacare while a r
  
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• White House says media delegitimizing Trump, won't 'take it'

  22-01-2017 16:56
  The White House vowed on Sunday to fight the news media "tooth and nail" over what officials see as unfair attacks on President Donald Trump, setting a tone that could ratchet up a traditionally adversarial relationship to a new level of rancour. A day after the Republican president used his first visit to CIA headquarters on Saturday to accuse the media of underestimating the crowds at his inauguration, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus expressed indignation at the reports and referred
  
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• New concerns over BPA as workers exposed to levels 70 times the average

  22-01-2017 16:00
  
  A new study has raised fresh concerns over the chemical commonly found in plastic packaging, which has been linked to variety of potential health issuesHealth concerns over Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical commonly found in plastic packaging and the lining of food cans, are well documented. Previous studies have linked low levels of BPA to a variety of potential health issues, including obesity, diabetes and fertility problems. A 2008 ruling by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) found that low e
  
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• The 7p pill which can defeat sepsis

  22-01-2017 10:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research shows the drugs, called calcium channel blockers, halve the risk of dying from sepsis, which kills more than one in three victims.
  
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• Bed-blocking: 'Managers ask how long patient will live'

  22-01-2017 10:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An A&E nurse says she is asked by management how many hours she thinks dying patients will live - because they need the beds. From 5 live Investigates.
  
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• Fitbit-style wristband reveals when fertility peaks

  22-01-2017 10:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Ava device recognises when a woman is about to ovulate by detecting subtle changes in her body, such as resting heart rate and skin temperature.
  
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• In search of the stroke detector

  22-01-2017 09:30
  
  Up to 50% of stroke diagnoses are inaccurate. What if a small biosensor could do the job precisely? Robert McCrum, who survived a ‘brain attack’ 22 years ago, traces one team’s long journey to a breakthroughStroke, or “brain attack”, is the third biggest killer in the western world, after cancer and heart failure. The life-changing effects associated with this simple, Anglo-Saxon word are readily explained: a stroke occurs when the blood supply to the brain is
  
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• An ice cream to lick heart disease?

  22-01-2017 09:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have created a treat that is packed with polyphenols, a type of antioxidant found in foods. Studies show the health-boosting plant chemicals have a beneficial effect on blood vessels.
  
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• Bringing a breath of fresh air to the UK’s polluted cities

  22-01-2017 08:00
  
  A weekend of creative events in central London aims to raise awareness of poor urban air qualityFeaturing a sturdy leather head-strap and mask, two large tubes and a transparent backpack containing a small potted plant, designer Chih Chiu’s response to crowded, polluted cities is stark.“My initial idea was to separate an individual from the public space,” he says. Continue reading...
  
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• Should I abandon my son to my alcoholic husband? | Mariella Frostrup

  22-01-2017 07:00
  
  A woman, whose son protects her from her abusive husband, wonders if she should leave without a trace. Mariella Frostrup respondsThe dilemma I have been married to my alcoholic husband for 14 years. We have a 13-year-old son, and two older kids from my previous marriage. I had an affair with a black man from 2007 until 2009. I had kept it a secret from my husband until he found out from my diary in 2010. Since then he has started drinking three or four bottles of wine a night and blames his drin
  
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• How music affects the brain | Daniel Glaser

  22-01-2017 07:00
  
  Music and dance can help patients with restricted movement dance and those without speech to singLa La Land is tipped for Oscar success following its triumph at the Golden Globes. Some have wondered if its appeal is partly as an escapist response to these troubled times.Whether or not such a retreat is politically helpful, there is sound neurobiology behind it. Patients with even fairly advanced dementia can still respond to a piece of music if they were familiar with it in their youth. It can b
  
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• Women stage marches in cities across North America

  22-01-2017 04:20
  (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of women, supported by a smaller number of men, gathered in dozens of cities across North America on Saturday to march in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump the day after the maverick Republican took office. Organizers said early estimates pointed to more than 1 million, while police and the Park Service declined to give numbers. Speakers included the feminist writer Gloria Steinem and some of the country's biggest celebrities were in attendance, includin
  
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• Myanmar's remote Wa State suffers as fewer Chinese come to party

  22-01-2017 03:31
  By Yimou Lee and Antoni Slodkowski PANGSAN, Myanmar (Reuters) - In a remote casino in northeastern Myanmar, China's pervasive campaign against graft has taken its toll. "The business has been really bad since Chinese tourists stopped coming," said casino waitress Ling Ling who was considering leaving Pangsan, capital of the self-proclaimed Wa State that borders China, to look for better paying jobs. In the statelet the size of Belgium controlled by the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Myanmar's stro
  
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• Japan enters uncharted waters as emperor's abdication pondered

  22-01-2017 03:08
  By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is moving to adopt a law allowing its octogenarian Emperor Akihito to abdicate but many touchy topics, such as his title and duties, remain to be settled before the monarch can retire in a step unprecedented for two centuries. Japanese law does not currently allow an emperor to give up the throne, but Akihito, 83, who has had heart surgery and prostate cancer treatment, said in rare public remarks last August he feared age might make it hard to fulfil his du
  
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• Snoring could cause a stroke

  22-01-2017 02:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vibrations of habitual snoring can cause damage and inflammation to the throat, increasing the risk of artherosclerosis and the chances of a stroke according to researchers in Illinois.
  
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• Marr on the stroke that left him partially paralysed

  22-01-2017 02:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  I don't like watching myself struggle with physiotherapy. But after four years of recovery, it was time to be a bit more open, rather more honest.
  
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• Never mind January... could you go dry forever?

  22-01-2017 01:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ruby Warrington gave up alcohol when she needed to focus on writing a book and freelance work, but soon found she preferred the life of sobriety, and hasn't looked back since her decision.
  
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• Factbox - Women stage marches in cities across North America

  22-01-2017 01:31
  (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of women, supported by a smaller number of men, gathered in dozens of cities across North America on Saturday to march in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump the day after the maverick Republican took office. Organizers said early estimates pointed to more than 1 million, while police and the Park Service declined to give numbers. Speakers included the feminist writer Gloria Steinem and some of the country's biggest celebrities were in attendance, includin
  
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• The increasingly polarised debate on abortion imperils women | Sonia Sodha

  22-01-2017 01:05
  
  A woman’s right to choose has been a hard-fought battle and we must ensure proper quality of careImagine the outcry. A charity offering a common medical procedure – 70,000 a year, more than in the NHS itself – is found guilty of terribly poor standards of care. You’d expect some calls for the chief executive’s head; others claiming this represents the creeping privatisation of the NHS; and serious questions asked about how NHS commissioners were unaware of the issue
  
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• The chemo’s too much, but getting on a clinical trial is gruelling enough

  22-01-2017 01:05
  
  Continuing his account of his illness, Steve Hewlett suffers a setback as he waits nervously for new drugsNow sharp-eyed readers may have spotted that this diary starts the day before the last one was published! By way of a little back story, my doctors have been trying to get me on to a clinical trial featuring new immunotherapy treatments, on the basis that my first line of chemotherapy worked well initially and then failed completely, and the second-line chemo, while it did show signs of work
  
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• Fury as last London community dental clinic shuts

  22-01-2017 01:05
  
  Warning that closure will pile more pressure on A&E servicesThe NHS has been accused of letting down patients in pain by shutting London’s last community-based A&E-style service for people needing emergency dental treatment.NHS England’s closure of the “urgent dental service” in Kentish Town will leave the capital’s 8.7 million residents with only two busy hospitals to go to with teeth problems. Dentists have warned that it will force more patients to seek h
  
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