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• New York woman reveals what it's like to date with HIV 

  27-01-2017 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Karen Fratti was 28, living with her then-boyfriend in New York City, when she tested positive for HIV. Now single, her HIV is untransmittable thanks to a daily pill. But dating with HIV is still tough.
  
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• Alzheimer's disease may begin in the womb says scientists

  27-01-2017 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of British Columbia have found that being deprived of vitamin A while still in the womb could sow the seeds for the development of Alzheimer's disease
  
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• New York mum reveals what it's like to date with HIV 

  27-01-2017 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Karen Fratti was 28, living with her then-boyfriend in New York City, when she tested positive for HIV. Now single, her HIV is untransmittable thanks to a daily pill. But dating with HIV is still tough.
  
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• California clears hurdle for cancer warning label on Roundup

  27-01-2017 22:43
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California can require Monsanto to label its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat despite an insistence from the chemical giant that it poses no risk to people, a judge tentatively ruled Friday.
  
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• Old wives’ tales are cold comfort for ‘snuffles’

  27-01-2017 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE old saying “starve a fever and feed a cold” could be the worst advice for beating winter snuffles.
  
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• Do Women Really Sync Their Period Cycles When They Spend A Lot Of Time Together?

  27-01-2017 22:34
  
  95 percent of women believe this is true.
  
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• 'The Advice My Trainer Gave Me That Helped Me Lose 80 Pounds In One Year’

  27-01-2017 22:17
  
  Liliana Gomez decreased her body fat by 25 percent thanks to these strategies.
  
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• Do You Have A Sleep Disorder? Answer These 5 Questions To Find Out

  27-01-2017 22:01
  
  Don't hit the snooze button on your sleeping probs.
  
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• Woman, 33, opens up about what it's like to date with HIV 

  27-01-2017 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Karen Fratti was 28, living with her then-boyfriend in New York City, when she tested positive for HIV. Now single, her HIV is untransmittable thanks to a daily pill. But dating with HIV is still tough.
  
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• NHS reveals surprising things that can cause you to faint

  27-01-2017 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Hawaii researchers published the tale of a 56-year-old obese man who would often faint following a burst of laughter in the Journal of Medical Case Reports in 2008.
  
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• How burnt toast and roast potatoes became linked to cancer

  27-01-2017 21:00
  
  Advice that overcooked starchy foods can contain acrylamide, a chemical liked to cancer, has caused a furore this week. Is it just another health scare?In October 1997, something troubling was happened around the Hallandsås ridge in southwestern Sweden. Farmers had found cows paralysed or dead in their fields, lifeless fish were spotted floating in a local river and workers at a construction site began suffering from nausea and prickling sensations in their fingers.Suspicion fell on a majo
  
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• GOSH cure two babies with terminal cancer

  27-01-2017 20:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two infants in London - 16-month-old Layla Richards and an unidentified 11-month-old - have been cured of leukemia using genetically engineered immune cells.
  
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• Lack of sleep makes you sick by suppressing immune system

  27-01-2017 20:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the UW Medicine Sleep Center took blood samples from 11 pairs of identical twins with different sleep patterns. Every sleep-deprived twin had a weaker immune response.
  
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• Britney Spears Just Posted The Most Incredible Abs Pic

  27-01-2017 20:25
  
  Oops, she did it again.
  
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• Pence fires up anti-abortion activists in Washington march

  27-01-2017 20:16
  "Life is winning again in America," Pence told the demonstrators on the National Mall, near where Trump was sworn in a week ago before hundreds of thousands. The March for Life also is taking place in the same area where even more massive crowds flooded Washington a day after Trump's inauguration in favor of women's rights, including abortion rights.[nL1N1FB0BM] Pence, a longtime hero of the anti-abortion movement, is the most senior government official ever to speak in person at the rally, orga
  
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• Safilo CEO says can weather potential LVMH loss

  27-01-2017 20:12
  By Valentina Za and Claudia Cristoferi MILAN (Reuters) - Italian eyewear group Safilo can make up for the potential loss of design-to-distribution deals with French luxury group LVMH with new licences and by expanding its own brands, its chief executive said on Friday. Shares in Safilo were hit last week by a report that LVMH could buy a stake in spectacles maker Marcolin and grant it licences currently held by Safilo and worth 340 million euros (289 million pounds) of its sales. Safilo recently
  
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• Indian boy has melon sized tumour removed from his nose

  27-01-2017 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unnamed 17-year-old, from Etawaha, Uttar Pradesh is believed to be one of the few recorded cases of a juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma.
  
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• What Happens To Your Body When You Always Lift The Same Amount Of Weight

  27-01-2017 19:57
  
  The good, the bad, and the ugly.
  
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• The NHS should protect patient confidentiality | Letters

  27-01-2017 19:52
  
  The agreement of the NHS to hand over patient information to the Home Office immigration authorities (Report, 25 January) fills us with anger and dismay. Patient confidentiality is one of the cornerstones of an ethical and effective healthcare system. That is why, in the absence of a court order, the NHS does not share even the address of a patient with the police or any other public body, except in the most serious cases of harm to the person, involving murder, rape or manslaughter.There is an
  
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• The Gambia girl has mouth tumor removed in New York

  27-01-2017 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jannet Sylva, 12, from The Gambia had had a tumor growing inside her mouth for the last three years. It had grown to the size of a grapefruit, but doctors successfully removed it and she is now recovering.
  
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• Scientists reveal toxins in toads used for folk medicine

  27-01-2017 19:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have conducted a comprehensive study on the chemicals produced by toads. They found a number of possible areas for new drug discovery, along with a slew of harmful toxins.
  
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• Council of Europe to investigate bribery allegations

  27-01-2017 18:47
  The Council of Europe (CoE) is to investigate possible corruption in its assembly in response to reports that Azerbaijani members had bribed others to influence votes on human rights there. The council voted down a resolution in January 2013 that would have condemned Azerbaijan for its policy on political prisoners. Transparency International and other anti-corruption groups later urged an inquiry "into the behaviour of members of the Azerbaijani delegation".
  
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• 'We Haven’t Had Sex In A While—Is That A Problem?’

  27-01-2017 18:41
  
  How to tell and what to do next.
  
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• How to not die from choking

  27-01-2017 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Don't do what a lot of people do in this terrifying situation, which is run to the toilet, says Emma Hammett, who was a nurse at Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals.
  
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• Women treated for early signs of breast cancer live LONGER

  27-01-2017 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Women over the age of 50 with ductal carcinoma in situ - a precursor of breast cancer - were 10 per cent more likely to be alive ten years after their diagnosis than health women, Dutch researchers found.
  
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• Smart baby-trackers mostly unnecessary, say US doctors

  27-01-2017 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A group of paediatricians claims devices tracking babies' health cause false alarms and should be regulated.
  
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• HEALTH NEWS: Revolutionary device to be used by NHS to help patients with heart failure

  27-01-2017 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A REVOLUTIONARY device - the size of a grain of rice - is being used by NHS surgeons to help patients with heart failure.
  
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• Brace Yourself For The Most Insane Blackhead Removal Video Yet

  27-01-2017 17:46
  
  It gives you a super close-up look at pore strips in action.
  
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• This One Move Will Leave Your Entire Body Sore AF

  27-01-2017 17:22
  
  Get toned from head to toe.
  
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• 'I Used Face Oils Every Day For 12 Days—Here’s What Happened'

  27-01-2017 17:16
  
  See which ones you should be adding into your routine.
  
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• Here’s How Haylie Duff Makes Her Mornings Stress-Free

  27-01-2017 17:15
  
  Celebs: Their hectic mornings are just like ours.
  
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• Exactly When You Should Eat Each Meal If You're Trying To Lose Weight

  27-01-2017 17:09
  
  Consider this the ultimate science-backed meal schedule.
  
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• Donor pledges C$380,000 for suicide prevention in First Nations community

  27-01-2017 16:50
  
  Wapekeka First Nation were denied federal funds to hire mental health workers months before declaring state of emergency over suicides of two 12-year-old girlsA private donor is being lauded by aboriginal leaders for stepping in “where the government of Canada has failed” after anonymously pledging C$380,000 to provide mental health workers for a suicide-stricken First Nations community in northern Ontario. Related: Death strikes First Nations community, once a leader in suicide prev
  
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• Free refills from soda fountains no longer on tap in France

  27-01-2017 16:38
  Offering free refills from self-service soda fountains has been uncommon in France, but now the practice is illegal. A governmental decree prohibiting restaurants, hotels and catering facilities from allowing ...
  
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• The dirtiest things in your home – in data

  27-01-2017 16:31
  
  A new study has sought out the grubbiest places in average British households – and its findings will surprise youTeaching children to wash their hands properly could help stop the spread of infection and thereby limit the use of antibiotics, UK medicines watchdog the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) advised this week. Bacteria are, of course, all around. Many of them are essential and harmless, but there are also those that can cause us to become ill. Continue read
  
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• AP-NORC Poll: Broad worries about potential health care loss

  27-01-2017 16:24
  
  Though "Obamacare" still divides Americans, a majority worries many will lose coverage if the 2010 law is repealed in the nation's long-running political standoff over health care. A new poll ...
  
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• Anti-abortion activists to 'march for life' in Washington

  27-01-2017 16:20
  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anti-abortion activists gathered in Washington on Friday for the 44th March for Life, buoyed by President Donald Trump's pledge to restrict the procedure and Vice President Mike Pence's plan to address the marchers. Organizers expect tens of thousands of supporters to converge on the National Mall for the march, which is held each year close to the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion in 1973. Vice President Mike
  
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• VW ex-CEO sticks to denial of early knowledge of scandal

  27-01-2017 16:08
  Former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn maintains that he did not learn of the carmaker's manipulations of emissions tests earlier than VW has officially admitted, his lawyer said in a statement. Prosecutors in Braunschweig earlier on Friday said they are investigating the former Volkswagen CEO over suspicions of fraud, citing indications that Winterkorn may have known about the cheat software sooner than he has said publicly. "For now, Winterkorn is sticking with the statement he ma
  
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• Girl Power

  27-01-2017 15:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Girl Power needs to start young - with storybooks - to challenge the assumption that boys are smarter, an education expert says.
  
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• Hip operations rationed: 'Only patients in SEVERE pain' could qualify for op - NHS bosses

  27-01-2017 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HIP operations might only be performed on people in such severe levels of pain they struggle to carry out daily tasks, health bosses have proposed.
  
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• Women on the verge of a midlife crisis

  27-01-2017 15:00
  
  For years, middle-age meltdown has been viewed as an exclusively male phenomenon, involving sports cars, affairs and ill-advised fashion choices – but the reality is not that binaryIt was supposed to be, says the writer Louise Doughty, a feminist indictment of the criminal justice system and of how women are still judged on their sexual conduct in a way that men aren’t. Instead – of course – it has become about the sex. Hot middle-aged sex. A middle-aged woman having hot
  
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• Cuts planned to Worcestershire hip and knee operations

  27-01-2017 14:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Surgeons hit out at the cost-cutting move, which health chiefs say will save around £2m a year.
  
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• Hospitals cancelled record number of urgent operations last year

  27-01-2017 14:29
  
  A total of 4,093 urgent procedures were scrapped in England in 2016 as staff shortages and lack of beds took tollHospitals cancelled a record number of urgent operations last year as bed shortages left them struggling to cope with the growing number of patients needing surgery, NHS figures show. Hospitals in England cancelled 4,093 urgent procedures during 2016, equivalent to 341 per month. This was 8% more than the 3,777 scrapped in 2015 and up by 27% on the 3,216 such operations cancelled duri
  
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• The return of the global gag rule stinks of neocolonialism | Lola Okolosie

  27-01-2017 14:09
  
  On this most basic issue of abortion and bodily autonomy, Donald Trump is imposing American religious values on women across the developing worldHere’s a question I’d like somebody to ask President Trump: “What’s a woman’s life worth?” I’d hazard a guess that his response would attempt to sound reasonable.Since the word “woman” tends to evoke a particular type, much in the same way the colour nude is taken as beige with whispers of peach, I&r
  
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• Autism test let's people experience the symptoms

  27-01-2017 13:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Autism Reality Experience', which will tour up and down the UK, uses special headphones, glasses and gloves to make it impossible for participants to concentrate.
  
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• Russian lawmakers decriminalize some domestic violence

  27-01-2017 12:58
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Soon it will no longer be a crime in Russia to beat family members — as long as you don't cause bodily harm.
  
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• Want to know how society's doing? Forget GDP – try these alternatives | Mark Rice-Oxley

  27-01-2017 12:51
  
  Crude financial instruments dominate the headlines, but it’s metrics like grain price and inequality ratio that really reflect the world we live in
  Here are the week’s leading indicators. The Dow Jones industrial average topped 20,000 points for the first time. British GDP grew 0.6% in the final quarter of 2016. The FTSE 100 and Germany’s DAX 30 persisted close to record highs, while US GDP softened slightly.
  Bored yet? I am. As a former financial journalist, I’m well acq
  
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• Want to know what autism feels like? Now you can

  27-01-2017 12:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Autism Reality Experience', which will tour up and down the UK, uses special headphones, glasses and gloves to make it impossible for participants to concentrate.
  
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• What happens when you don't brush your teeth

  27-01-2017 11:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to dentists, skipping the twice daily cleanse can lead to all sorts of health issues such as loose teeth, bleeding gums and even coronary heart disease.
  
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• Flu Fighting Tonic recipe could help fight off virus

  27-01-2017 11:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The recipe for a Flu Fighting Tonic recipe contains six superfood ingredients, including trendy turmeric. Most of the ingredients contain antioxidants and boast impressive health benefits.
  
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