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• Itchy skin? Do NOT go to your dermatologist  

  15-02-2017 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If you're looking for creams for inflamed skin, you might be better off seeing your primary care doctor. A new study found that dermatologists are three times more likely to prescribe brand names.
  
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• Why Kate Middleton was destined to outshine Pippa

  15-02-2017 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a study published last week by Edinburgh University, first-born children were found to display more intelligence than their younger siblings, but other tests show a variety of patterns.
  
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• Skip The Treadmill And Try These 20 Fat-Blasting Cardio Moves Instead

  15-02-2017 23:34
  
  You can literally do these moves anywhere.
  
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• What To Do If You Want To Lose Weight—But Just Can’t Motivate Yourself To Get Started

  15-02-2017 23:32
  
  The struggle is real—but you can overcome it.
  
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• Heart disease will cost the US $1tn a year by 2035

  15-02-2017 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report from the American Heart Association estimates that heart disease will cost the US $1.1 trillion a year - more than double the current cost of $555 billion.
  
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• How a Spa Getaway Changed the Way I Deal With Stress

  15-02-2017 22:38
  
  I’m happiest when I’m moving. I don’t mean riding the train to work, or signing a new apartment lease. I mean physically pushing my body. Getting sweaty. Going for a mind-clearing run. Boxing. Barre. Bootcamp. Strolling. Whatever.My exercise-induced endorphin high is the antidote to my stress spirals, which go like this: I write a lengthy to-do list. I stare at it until I feel paralyzed. Then I crumble from the stress of feeling paralyzed. So I work out ferociously&md
  
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• Scarlett Johansson Says Monogamy Is Not Natural: Here’s What Experts Think

  15-02-2017 22:20
  
  What do you say?
  
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• Melatonin sleep supplements may contain serotonin

  15-02-2017 21:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite promising to contain certain amounts of sleep-controlling hormones, many sleep supplements are well off the mark, scientists from the University of Guelph in Ontario claim.
  
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• Heart disease will cost the US $1 TRILLION a year by 2035

  15-02-2017 21:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report from the American Heart Association estimates that heart disease will cost the US $1.1 trillion a year - more than double the current cost of $555 billion.
  
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• There's Going To Be A 'Love Actually' Sequel (Kind Of)

  15-02-2017 21:26
  
  Best. News. Ever.
  
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• How To Turn Off The Hormones That Cause Hair Thinning

  15-02-2017 21:04
  
  And get back to your roots.
  
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• MPs and peers launch manifesto in support of children of alcoholic parents

  15-02-2017 20:52
  
  Group behind initiative reveal feelings of shame and fear of own childhoods and call on ministers to tackle UK’s ‘secret scandal’A third Labour MP has spoken of the “secrecy, shame and fear” of living with an alcoholic parent, as she urged more government action to help the children of people with alcohol problems.Caroline Flint, a former Labour minister, spoke of her “beautiful and kind” mother, Wendy, who died from pneumonia at 45 after years of alcoho
  
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• US scientists use MRI scan to diagnose autism in babies 

  15-02-2017 20:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers across the US tested the method on hundreds of infants with autistic siblings, making them 'at risk'. The experiment had an 80 percent success rate of detecting the condition.
  
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• STI map of US states shows disease most likely in Alaska

  15-02-2017 20:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to a new report, Alaska is the state where you are most likely to catch an STD, while New Hampshire ranks last. The report used CDC data as well as state and county health information.
  
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• Work at home? You're more likely to suffer insomnia

  15-02-2017 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report from the UN's International Labour Organization states that those who work out of home are more likely to suffer from insomnia, stress and depression.
  
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• Hugh Jackman's cancer and the dangers explained

  15-02-2017 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 48-year-old actor has been vocal about his battle with basal cell carcinoma since doctors spotted his first abnormal mole in 2013. So what is BCC, and why does Jackman's case keep returning?
  
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• Vietnam actress' face was destroyed by a sinus infection

  15-02-2017 19:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tran Thi Yen Nhung, 28, of My Tho, Vitetnam died last December after her family spent the equivalent of £180,000 on treatments, with surgery only worsening the infection.
  
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• Government urged to stop property tax hikes for 1,249 NHS hospitals

  15-02-2017 19:37
  
  Changes to business rates system mean NHS hospitals liable for property tax will see bills increase by £322m over five yearsThe government is under growing pressure to stop a sharp increase in business rates for hospitals that threatens to increase the strain on the NHS.Changes to the business rates system mean that the 1,249 NHS hospitals liable for the property tax will see their bills increasing by £322m, or 21%, over the next five years from April. Related: NHS hospitals in Engla
  
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• The One Trick That Helped Me Save More Than $5,000

  15-02-2017 19:22
  
  The best part? Anyone can do it.
  
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• Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear

  15-02-2017 19:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The discovery could lead to better tests and therapies for children with autism.
  
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• Georgia woman died from liposuction in Colombia

  15-02-2017 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Diana Alvarez, 36, a married mother-of-one who lived in Kennesaw, Georgia, traveled to her native Medellin in early December 2016 to get liposuction. She never woke up from surgery.
  
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• 5 Signs Your Appendix Is About To Burst

  15-02-2017 18:05
  
  If you notice any of these, get to a doctor, stat.
  
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• It's not just mothers who get the 'baby blues'

  15-02-2017 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While fluctuations in hormones are to blame for most women's postnatal depression, stress was to blame for a father feeling down before the birth, researchers from the University of Auckland say.
  
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• The Best Way To Dress A Square Butt

  15-02-2017 17:37
  
  Our fashion experts share their styling secrets.
  
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• Check Out The $30 Million Airbnb Where Britney Spears Spent Her Valentine’s Day

  15-02-2017 17:25
  
  That's one hell of a getaway.
  
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• You Can Do This Flat-Abs Workout From Hilaria Baldwin In 15 Minutes

  15-02-2017 17:16
  
  These aren’t your typical abs moves.
  
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• 5 Reasons You Haven’t Been Able To Lose Weight This Winter No Matter How Hard You Try

  15-02-2017 17:12
  
  Working on your winter bod is actually a thing.
  
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• Not just mums: New dads 'can get the baby blues TOO'

  15-02-2017 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NEW fathers get the baby blues too, suggests new research.
  
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• 3 NHS hospitals turned away London woman who died

  15-02-2017 16:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  St George's Hospital in Tooting, the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, and King's College Hospital in London - had no space to accommodate Mary Muldowney.
  
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• ‘I Broke Up With My Fiance And It Completely Changed My Life’

  15-02-2017 15:37
  
  The save the dates had already been sent, but Stacey Voss knew what she had to do.
  
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• Type 2 diabetes: THIS indicator of body weight could predict YOUR risk

  15-02-2017 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TYPE 2 diabetes is more likely in people with certain body shapes, scientists have revealed.
  
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• BIRD FLU OUTBREAK: Avian flu strain H5N8 detected in British farm

  15-02-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN OUTBREAK of bird flu has been confirmed at a poultry farm in Suffolk, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has said.
  
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• How I feel about my decision to get cosmetic surgery – 10 years on

  15-02-2017 15:16
  
  Our readers talk about the procedures they have had done and whether now, looking back, they have any regretsHave you had cosmetic surgery and regretted it? It’s a question we posed to our readers after new data showed that the number of people choosing to go under the knife in Britain is the lowest in nearly a decade. Here is a selection of your responses: Related: Is Brexit really to blame for the decline in plastic surgery? | Tim DowlingRelated: In the aggressive world of cosmetic surge
  
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• Could THIS spell the end of painful fillings?

  15-02-2017 13:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A clinical trial at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry is offering patients with cavities in between their teeth a less painful treatment option to the traditional drilling.
  
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• Why you shouldn't compare your sex life to others

  15-02-2017 13:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Canadian research suggests that believing someone has a better sex life than you after reading magazine articles of celebrities such as Katie Price can damage your libido.
  
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• Woman died after three hospitals refused to admit her for surgery

  15-02-2017 13:26
  
  Coroner says Mary Muldowney probably would have survived if she had been operated on immediately for bleed on brainA woman died from a brain haemorrhage after at least three hospitals refused to admit her for surgery because they had no intensive care beds. In a case that brings the deepening NHS bed crisis into sharp relief, a coroner said it was likely that Mary Muldowney, 57, would have survived if she had been given immediate surgery to stem the bleeding. Continue reading...
  
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• Suffering chest pain? Simple device could save NHS MILLIONS and rule out heart attack risk

  15-02-2017 12:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A HEART scanning device could revolutionise the way patients are assessed - helping doctors rule out potentially life-threatening conditions.
  
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• Student, 18, with cystic fibrosis becomes a cheerleader

  15-02-2017 12:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Emily Bonney, 18, pictured, from Blackpool, takes up to 60 tablets every day to keep her lungs functioning at a normal rate - but this didn't stop her joining the squad.
  
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• Cancer: How to tell your child your diagnosis

  15-02-2017 12:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It’s one of the hardest things a parent can do, so UCLH Cancer Collaborative has released an animated film with advice on how to talk to children about a cancer diagnosis.
  
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• Football headers 'linked to brain damage'

  15-02-2017 11:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Footballers suffer similar brain damage to boxers, a small scientific study suggests.
  
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• Keep getting a runny nose? Your PILLOW could be to blame

  15-02-2017 11:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Hygiene Doctor, Lisa Ackerley, of the University of Salford, said that runny noses could be a result of having an allergy to the faeces of hundreds of microscopic dust mites.
  
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• Pancreatic cancer is set to be of the top cancer killers

  15-02-2017 11:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pancreatic Cancer UK predicts that 11,279 people will die every year from the disease by 2026, a 28 per cent increase from 2014. Around 10,000 people in the UK are diagnosed each year.
  
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• The NHS needs a rethink. Its priorities no longer make sense | Deborah Orr

  15-02-2017 11:16
  
  Early intervention on mental health and proper social care are vital if the health service is to stop merely lurching from one crisis to the nextTheresa May is busy enacting the “will of the people”, seemingly unaware that she’s not actually in her own elevated position due to the “will of the people” at all. And the nation is looking on, mesmerised. We may look back on this period in British politics and marvel at how the country was so busy leaving Europe that it
  
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• 'Creativity improves wellbeing': art transforms mental health ward

  15-02-2017 10:48
  
  A psychiatric ward in London has been given a makeover, with work donated by artists and workshops for patients Artists give hospital ward a makeover – in picturesWhen most people think of a secure mental health unit, they don’t tend to picture it decorated with artwork by award-winning artists and patients.A psychiatric ward housing patients with schizophrenia in Springfield University hospital in Tooting, London, however, has undergone an artistic renovation. The once blank, colour
  
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• Artists give hospital ward a makeover – in pictures

  15-02-2017 10:48
  
  Charity Hospital Rooms organised for professional artists to donate – and work on – pieces for a psychiatric ward in Springfield University hospital in London‘Creativity improves wellbeing’: art transforms mental health wardContinue reading...
  
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• Medical expert says multi vitamins are a waste of money

  15-02-2017 10:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australian medical experts have claimed multi-vitamins are unnecessary for most people and there is 'no benefit' for the average person taking them
  
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• Blood pressure ‘cure’: THIS 'anti-obesity’ food could REDUCE diabetes risk

  15-02-2017 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EATING blue maize - also known as corn - could reduce high blood pressure, boost levels of good cholesterol and protect people against diabetes - a breakthrough study has revealed.
  
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• Soon we'll be able to spot diseases like cancer before we even feel sick

  15-02-2017 10:09
  
  Within five years nanotechnology will examine bodily fluids for tiny bioparticles that reveal signs of cancer – helping to stop disease before it progressesThe sooner a disease is diagnosed, the more likely it is to be well managed or cured. The challenge to finding a disease early is that most of us don’t seek treatment until we have symptoms, which means the disease has already progressed.
  But breakthroughs in nanobiotechnology techniques mean that in five years we will be able to
  
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• My generation fought for equality and security. But that spirit seems lost now | Franklin Medhurst

  15-02-2017 10:00
  
  Brexit Britain is stumbling blindly into separation from a stable community – and social injustice is on the rise. We need to rediscover what’s important to usThere are alive today members of the generation born within a few years of the ceasefire on the western front. The British culture that emerged in those interwar years evolved from the economic and social struggles which were the legacy of the first world war. In the early years of the second world war, that generation responde
  
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• Shigellosis symptoms: Warning issued over contagious bug which causes severe diarrhoea

  15-02-2017 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SHIGELLOSIS - a contagious bug - has spread through three schools in the UK - causing chronic diarrhoea or dysentery, nausea, fever and stomach cramps among those affected.
  
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