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• Clean sleeping - the latest preachy trend

  07-02-2017 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  You've heard of clean eating before, but what about 'clean sleeping'? The Gwyneth Paltrow goop-approved experts discuss what clean sleeping is and why it's so important.
  
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• 11 Random Reasons Why Your Period Is Totally Out Of Whack

  07-02-2017 23:24
  
  Here’s what to do when everything’s NOT coming up roses.
  
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• NHS 'failed' spinal cancer death woman

  07-02-2017 23:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tumours were not found until months after Patricia Ann Whitehouse first saw a GP, her family claims.
  
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• 'I Crowdfunded Money For Weight-Loss Surgery And It Totally Changed My Life’

  07-02-2017 23:10
  
  “This is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”
  
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• Good vibes: selling sex toys online to fund sexual health programs

  07-02-2017 22:52
  
  A new Australian social enterprise is tackling sexual objectification in advertising and an ‘unwritten moral code’ while selling sex toys for a good cause As an engineer, Jak Haines never expected to find herself in the sex business – she was just looking for an opportunity to practise conscious capitalism. “I looked at different sectors ... but I decided the sex industry was ripe for change,” she says. Related: It takes a village to raise a child, but tech giants c
  
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• Alcohol-linked death rate for women soars in North East

  07-02-2017 22:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While the death rate for women has dropped across the South East and East of England, it has gone up sharply in the rest of the country.
  
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• 7 Grammy-Nominated Singers Share How They REALLY Feel About Working Out

  07-02-2017 22:12
  
  "I do like doing weights. I don't like looking in the mirror."
  
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• Spending 15 Minutes Doing This After Dinner Can Help You Drop Pounds

  07-02-2017 22:10
  
  It won’t even feel like work.
  
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• Losing a wife

  07-02-2017 21:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As ex-footballer Rio Ferdinand says he is yet to "grieve properly" for his wife, three men share their experiences of losing a partner.
  
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• Dozens plead guilty, but doctor goes to trial in $200M fraud

  07-02-2017 20:40
  Details of a long-running health care kickback scheme that allegedly featured prostitutes, cash-stuffed envelopes and private jet junkets began to unfold in federal court Tuesday as a 79-year-old physician ...
  
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• China 'mending its ways'o on unethical organ transplants, official says

  07-02-2017 20:36
  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Beijing's top official on transplants said on Tuesday Beijing was "mending its ways" from a murky past when organs were taken from detained or executed prisoners. Dr Huang Jeifu also told a Vatican conference bringing together nearly 80 doctors, law enforcement officials and representatives of health and non-government organisations that his participation, which medical ethics groups have criticised, was not an attempt to whitewash the past. "China is
  
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• New vaccines guidelines: HPV now just two shots

  07-02-2017 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New guidelines have come out for the HPV vaccine to be administered over two doses as opposed to the standard three in an attempt to raise the number of kids who receive the injection.
  
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• What NOT to say to someone with cancer

  07-02-2017 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fiona Holland, a psychology lecturer at the University of Derby, has interviewed six women diagnosed with primary breast cancer about what to say – and not – to someone who has cancer.
  
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• Why pregnant women should NEVER drink from plastic bottles

  07-02-2017 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pregnant women are making their unborn babies obese by drinking from plastic bottles because they contain chemicals that interfere with a hormone that makes you full, a DC study says.
  
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• Health tourism claims are a distraction from NHS’s real problems | Letters

  07-02-2017 19:55
  
  We know of no good evidence that “health tourism” – individuals travelling to England solely to access NHS services – is a significant burden on the NHS (Hospitals to check patients’ right to care, 6 February). Such patients are seen very rarely, if at all, in clinical practice.Assurances that individuals with infectious diseases and those requiring “emergency treatment” will not be turned away fundamentally misunderstand how healthcare is delivered. Peo
  
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• Lazy children show signs of stiff arteries aged 6

  07-02-2017 19:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doing less than 68 minutes of vigorous daily exercise can cause permanent damage to a youngster's blood vessels, a study by the University of Eastern Finland found.
  
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• CSAIL makes wearable AI to judge the tone of conversations

  07-02-2017 19:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have made a wearable device that can predict if a conversation is happy or sad.
  
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• This Woman’s Viral Photo Shows What Happens When You Put Too Much Coconut Oil In Your Bath

  07-02-2017 19:24
  
  Too much of a good thing...
  
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• 6 Ingredients Nutritionists NEVER Put In Their Smoothies

  07-02-2017 19:02
  
  Experts dish on the add-ins that can turn a healthy treat into a sugar bomb.
  
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• Teva says Israel probing same issues as U.S. bribery case

  07-02-2017 18:41
  Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said on Tuesday that Israeli authorities were investigating the same issues as an earlier U.S. bribery settlement. "The company can confirm that, to the best of its knowledge, an investigation is being conducted in Israel regarding the same issues which led to a settlement with American justice authorities," a spokesman said in a statement. "The settlement referred to events that occurred between 2007-2012 and none of the people involved in the improper payments is
  
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• NHS Hospitals are warned about unannounced spot-checks

  07-02-2017 18:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Health experts at Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said hospitals are beefing up cleaning rounds in the run-up to an inspection, and then letting standards slip.
  
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• These Photos Reveal What Posing For Sports Illustrated Really Meant To Christie Brinkley’s Daughters

  07-02-2017 18:28
  
  "I don’t need to be a size 0 to believe in myself."
  
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• China may still be using executed prisoners' organs, official admits

  07-02-2017 18:14
  
  Huang Jiefu, in charge of overhauling the Chinese transplant network, angers rights activists as Vatican trafficking talks beginAn official in charge of overhauling China’s organ transplant programme has said the country may still be using organs from executed prisoners in some cases, even though there is technically zero tolerance for the practice.The admission by Huang Jiefu, a former Chinese deputy health minister, came as human rights activists and medical ethics experts voiced strong
  
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• Chinese official pledges tough penalties for harvesting prisoners' organs

  07-02-2017 17:57
  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - China is making progress in eliminating transplants using organs from executed prisoners, but violations still exist and offenders will be punished severely, the director of Beijing's transplant programme said on Tuesday. "In China, organ donations from civilians and from prisoners cannot co-exist," Dr Huang Jeifu told a Vatican conference bringing together nearly 80 doctors, law enforcement officials and representatives of health and non-government or
  
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• Scream Queen's Keke Palmer Says She's Definitely Gone Through Guys' Phones Before

  07-02-2017 17:39
  
  Plus, here’s what this pullup queen keeps in her gym bag.
  
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• Rashida Abedi obituary

  07-02-2017 17:33
  
  My friend, Rashida Abedi, who has died of cancer aged 65, handled her profound deafness with courage and her story, recorded in her autobiography From Sound to Silence (1988), inspired many others.Rashida was born and grew up in Quetta, Pakistan, to where her father had retired after working for the Indian railways. She lost the hearing in her right ear after a severe attack of meningitis when she was 14. “I was advised by specialists to leave school,” she recalled. “All my hop
  
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• Driving concussed affects someone's ability to drive

  07-02-2017 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Georgia found that those who had experienced a knock to their skull had, at times, the same ability as someone under the influence of alcohol.
  
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• These Are The Celebrities Everyone Wants To Sleep With

  07-02-2017 17:23
  
  Plus, this is how many women said they'd sleep with Donald Trump.
  
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• Gerald Graham obituary

  07-02-2017 17:20
  
  Clinical physiologist who revolutionised the treatment of heart disease in childrenIn 1954 the clinical physiologist Gerald Graham, who has died aged 98, introduced to Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London a new method of investigating congenital heart disease in children. It used cardiac catheterisation and angiocardiography as well as a safe method of maintaining circulation during open-heart surgery. Up to then, the diagnosis of cardiac defects had relied on clinical examina
  
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• Leicester couple's 'desperate' IVF online fundraising bid

  07-02-2017 16:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Stacey and Leigh Oswin are using crowdfunding to try to have a baby through the NHS.
  
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• Prince William calls for end to stigma on mental illness

  07-02-2017 16:22
  
  LONDON (AP) — Prince William is speaking out about ending the stigma surrounding mental health treatment.
  
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• Could eating PASTA help lead to reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes?

  07-02-2017 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PASTA leads to eating a healthier diet, according to new research.
  
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• Madonna granted permission to adopt twins from Malawi

  07-02-2017 16:00
  Malawi's High Court on Tuesday granted Madonna permission to adopt twins from the Southern African country, a judiciary spokesman said. The U.S. singer has previously adopted two children from Malawi, stirring anger among some Malawians who accused the government of allowing her to skirt laws that ban non-residents from adopting. Madonna was inside the courtroom when the approval ruling was delivered, judiciary spokesman Mlenga Mvula said.Reuters could not reach representatives for Madonna for c
  
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• UCL find E-cigarettes are far safer and less toxic

  07-02-2017 15:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University College London researchers found people who switched from tobacco to 'vaping' saw the levels of cancer-causing toxins in their body drop by up to 97.5 per cent in six months.
  
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• When my mum became a ‘bed blocker’, I saw the crisis in care for older people | Ros Coward

  07-02-2017 15:39
  
  Anyone with an elderly relative in need of medicalised social care should prepare to deal with a shockingly underfunded and uncompassionate systemThe case of Iris Sibley, trapped for six months in a Bristol hospital while her family and health authority hunted for a suitable care home, has highlighted how “bed blocking” is a key term in the crisis currently engulfing the NHS. When this week brought the news that nine out of 10 hospitals are overcrowded, NHS bosses pointed to major pr
  
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• Keanu Reeves: 'I Worry That People Won't Like What I Do'

  07-02-2017 15:26
  
  Your ’90s crush confesses his biggest insecurity, his guilty pleasures, and other sexy secrets.
  
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• Have sex to burn 54 calories without exercising

  07-02-2017 15:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Simple things like choosing the stairs over the lift or playing a game with the kids can boost the number of calories we burn each day, the experts on Channel 4's How to Get Fit Fast point out.
  
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• Getting married in later life will make you obese

  07-02-2017 15:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Arizona found that women aged between 50 and 79 who married gained 2lbs or more on average in their study of 79,094 post-menopausal women.
  
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• Why do you love the NHS?

  07-02-2017 14:29
  
  Whether you are a healthcare professional or a patient, we want to know your stories about why you love the health serviceNigel Lawson once declared, “the NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion”, while the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony in London revealed its unique place in the nation’s hearts.Every day it changes people’s lives. In one day, 1,300 people will die, 2,000 will be born and 1.5 million will be treated by the NHS. In 2014, it was declared the
  
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• At least 20 dead in bomb blast outside Afghan Supreme Court

  07-02-2017 13:59
  At least 20 people were killed on Tuesday in a bomb blast outside the Supreme Court in the centre of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, government officials said, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of attacks on the judiciary. The Ministry of Public Health said at least 20 people were killed and 38 injured people were taken to city hospitals. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, in which police said an apparent suicide bomber targeted Supreme Court employees leavi
  
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• Quicker care

  07-02-2017 13:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A GP practice in Plymouth is using paramedics and pharmacists to free up doctors to see more patients.
  
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• NHS Health Check: How one GP practice tackled waiting times

  07-02-2017 13:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A GP practice in Plymouth is using paramedics and pharmacists to free up doctors to see more patients.
  
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• NHS Health Check: Short GP consultations crazy, say GPs

  07-02-2017 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The length of GP consultations in the NHS is "crazy" and risks undermining care, doctors warn.
  
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• Unexpected mental health deaths up 50% in three years

  07-02-2017 13:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Deaths classed as "unexpected" at mental health trusts include suicide, neglect and misadventure.
  
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• UK tax burden will soar to highest level for 30 years, warns IFS

  07-02-2017 13:31
  
  Slower growth after Brexit vote and ageing population will hit budget over next decade, says leading thinktankThe government is on course to impose steep cuts in public spending from April and increase taxes by the end of the decade to their highest level as a share of national income since 1986-87 to combat the UK’s persistent budget deficit.But slower economic growth following the Brexit vote will still leave the UK with one of the largest black holes in public spending in the developed
  
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• Ohio burns survivor rejects surgery and embraces scars 

  07-02-2017 13:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alyssa McDonald, from Cincinnati in Ohio, was just two-years-old when she tipped a the scolding liquid onto her face. Family members said her skin was 'melting off' after the accident.
  
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• Mum devastated after daughter diagnosed with brain cancer

  07-02-2017 12:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Laura Sharpe, 29, from Hampshire, first believed Faith's imbalance was down to the common, but harmless, part of child development known as Genu valgum - or being bow-legged.
  
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• Britons spend 9 HOURS of their days sitting down

  07-02-2017 12:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Most are spending five hours every day locked firmly in their office chair, managing to escape only for lunch and a quick stretch of their legs, according to a poll of 2,000 British adults.
  
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• Chinese cities suspend live poultry trade on bird flu fears

  07-02-2017 11:02
  An outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in China's central Hunan province has prompted authorities to put a temporary bar on the sale of live poultry in several cities, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Five people have died in Hunan from the H7N9 avian influenza strain since the start of the year, and 20 have been infected, the provincial centre for disease control and prevention said late on Tuesday. Live poultry markets are still common in smaller towns and cities around China, althoug
  
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• IFS warns of steep cuts and tax rises to fill £40bn black hole

  07-02-2017 11:00
  
  Slower growth after Brexit vote and ageing population will hit budget over next decade, says tax and spending thinktankThe government is on course to impose steep cuts in public spending from April and increase taxes by the end of the decade to their highest level as a share of national income since 1986-87 to combat the UK’s persistent budget deficit.But slower economic growth following the Brexit vote will still leave the UK with one of the largest black holes in public spending in the d
  
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