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• Fabric made from Coca-Cola bottles can fix shoulder

  18-02-2017 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The injury is regularly seen in rugby players – with several current and former Six Nations stars having had the 'Coke-bottle fix' – including Welsh flanker Sam Warburton (pictured).
  
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• Is gluten-free pasta really that good for you?

  18-02-2017 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nutritional therapist Jackie Lynch helped carry out a number of taste and nutrition tests to see if gluten-free pennes and noodles are better than regular spaghetti (pictured).
  
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• Drug used to treat arthritis could save stroke patients

  18-02-2017 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British doctors are trialling the use of a rheumatoid arthritis drug which targets the inflammatory process in the brain caused by stroke in the same way it treats inflammation in an arthritic joint.
  
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• HEALTH NOTES: Victoria happy she swapped saddles

  18-02-2017 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Olympic athlete Victoria Pendleton, 36, (pictured) revealed how she lost more than a stone in muscle after she retired from competitive track cycling and took up horse racing.
  
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• Norma McCorvey, 'Roe' in Roe v Wade case legalizing abortion, dies aged 69

  18-02-2017 21:02
  
  Initially celebrated by pro-choice campaigners, the plaintiff in the landmark supreme court ruling later became a fierce opponent of abortion rights
  Norma McCorvey, who was just 22 years old when she became better known as Jane Roe in the landmark 1973 supreme court case Roe v Wade, has died aged 69 in her home state of Texas. Her death was confirmed by journalist Joshua Prager, who was working on a book about McCorvey and was with her and her family when she died. He told the Associated Press t
  
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• The return of the MMR charlatan fits with our times | Nick Cohen

  18-02-2017 19:30
  
  The return of the disgraced Andrew Wakefield should put us on our guard, as should the actions of politicians such as Donald Trump and Jeremy CorbynIf you are unlucky, and all of us are unlucky in the end, you will visit a doctor in the confident expectation that they can fix any illness as a mechanic fixes a car and learn of the vast areas of ignorance on the map of medical science. If you are very unlucky, you will take an autistic child to a doctor and learn that “autism” is a vag
  
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• Bio-terrorism could kill 30 million people in a year, says Bill Gates – video

  18-02-2017 18:27
  
  Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft who has spent billions on philanthropic efforts over the past several decades, speaks at the Munich security conference on Sunday and says that the world must be on guard for bio-terrorism attacks. Telling the audience that “a synthetic version of the smallpox virus ... or a super contagious and deadly strain of the flu” could kill more than 30 million people in a year, Gates says there is a “reasonable probability” that such an eve
  
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• Bill Gates: Pathogen could kill 30m in a year

  18-02-2017 17:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Microsoft's founder warns a virus, possibly created by terrorists, could have a catastrophic effect.
  
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• Charities call for NHS to stop rationing critical care

  18-02-2017 16:54
  
  PM urged to find more money in budget for patients with rare and complex conditionsTheresa May has been urged by charity chiefs to stop the NHS rationing treatment for seriously ill patients and to find more money for their care in the budget next month.About 30 health charities, including the Teenage Cancer Trust, National AIDS Trust and Motor Neurone Disease Association, have raised the alarm about NHS England “restricting and rationing treatment” because of underfunding, especiall
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Cuts to blame for social care crisis

  18-02-2017 16:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cuts to local authority funding are responsible for problems in the social care system, the Labour leader says.
  
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• Tony Blair's Brexit speech 'not helpful', says Jeremy Corbyn

  18-02-2017 14:38
  
  Labour leader urges former prime minister to respect referendum result and focus energy on future relationship with EUJeremy Corbyn has criticised Tony Blair’s call for pro-Europeans to form a new cross-party movement to oppose Brexit, urging the former prime minister to respect the result of the referendum and to put his energy towards building relations in Europe.Corbyn, who was questioned on the comments after addressing Labour’s local government conference at Warwick University,
  
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• Ice cap could save cancer patients from losing their hair

  18-02-2017 12:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Newsreader Rachael Bland, 38, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of last year, was seen being fitted with a cold cap at the Macclesfield Hospital in Cheshire.
  
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• NHS pays bonus for staff standing up

  18-02-2017 12:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Managers at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust are urging workers to stand up after an hour has passed to promote healthier lifestyles. The trust will be paid an extra £900k a year for promoting wellbeing.
  
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• Hope for Hanoi? New bus system could cut pollution … if enough people use it

  18-02-2017 11:58
  
  A new $53m BRT (bus rapid transit) system has the power to reduce Hanoi’s dreadful air pollution. Persuading residents of Vietnam’s rapidly expanding capital to ditch their motorbikes and private cars, however, will be another storyFrom his high-rise office building in Hanoi, Tran Dung can barely see his city’s skyline behind the thick layer of smog. Before leaving work, the 25-year-old executive assistant checks the pollution reading on his AirVisual app, which provides real-t
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the woman trying for a baby

  18-02-2017 10:00
  
  The last thing you should say to a woman who is desperately trying to have a baby is, ‘Try not to think about it.’ It’s all we think aboutI’m 33, and my husband and I have been trying to conceive for three years. When we were ready, we threw caution to the wind and decided that if it happened naturally, it would be wonderful. Then as the months passed, we began to wonder if there was something wrong, so we got tested. My husband’s fertility is A++; his swimmers are
  
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• It’s painful watching the male crisis onscreen – more painful in real life | Deborah Orr

  18-02-2017 08:00
  
  By exploring negative aspects of masculinity, Manchester By the Sea and Moonlight help us allHad Moonlight not come along, hard on its heels, Manchester By the Sea might have seemed like the most emotionally revealing film about a man to have been released in years. But since Moonlight is probably one of the most emotionally revealing films about a man ever to have been made, it wins. Related: Moonlight review – a visually ravishing portrait of masculinity Boys are told not to cry, told to
  
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• Sarfraz Manzoor: Our long, hard battle to have a second child

  18-02-2017 07:30
  
  We had our daughter without a problem, so when my wife and I decided to try for a second baby, we never imagined we would need repeated IVFOne morning at breakfast our daughter, Laila, looked up from her cornflakes and said: “Why am I the only child in this family?”We had always known we wanted more than one child. Laila was born in 2011, a year after Bridget and I married. I loved being a dad. Children are hope in human form and while parenthood was often challenging, it also gifted
  
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• Drugs are not the cure for naughty children: DR MAX

  18-02-2017 03:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Are children born naughty? This is an important question when considering Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a condition characterised by issues with impulsiveness.
  
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• Salmonella 'can kill cancer'

  18-02-2017 02:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A cutting-edge development from scientists in South Korea could see salmonella bacteria used to combat cancer - while at the same time leaving normal healthy cells alone.
  
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• Why you SHOULD let children play with their food

  18-02-2017 02:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from scientists at De Montfort University in Leicester shows children who play with their fruit and vegetables are more inclined to snack on the healthy choices later on.
  
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• Face transplant recipient overwhelmed by result

  18-02-2017 01:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Andy Sandness was 21 when a suicide attempt left him with a face almost destroyed by a gunshot.
  
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• Fathers who hug their babies have a better bond

  18-02-2017 01:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study, by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, raises the possibility that oxytocin could be artificially given to fathers who are failing to bond with their children.
  
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