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• 'Bionic' heart that's as good as a transplant

  25-02-2017 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The groundbreaking implant, due to be offered in the UK from next year, contains a tiny motor that assists the pumping action of the heart muscle by helping it push blood out into the body.
  
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• Martin Kemp admits stadium rock ruined his hearing

  25-02-2017 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Martin Kemp (pictured with wife Shirlie Holliman), a judge on the BBC talent show Let It Shine, has revealed he has tinnitusand high-frequency hearing loss.
  
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• Child-induced fatigue costs economy dear, says new study

  25-02-2017 22:22
  
  Parents with young children are ‘substantially’ less productive than their colleagues, due to a lack of sleepAs every parent of a newborn knows, sleep is a foreign country, a place that they happily visited a long time ago but fear they may now never experience again. The constant disruption to sleep patterns posed by a screaming baby can play havoc with relationships, waistlines and sanity, but it’s also having a deleterious effect on the nation’s finances. Until now.In
  
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• Caroline Wyatt: MS 'brain fog' lifted after stem cell treatment

  25-02-2017 21:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Caroline Wyatt said the "brain fog began to lift" after she paid for treatment in Mexico.
  
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• Surge in women wanting 'designer vaginas' with labiaplasty

  25-02-2017 14:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scores of young women are electing themselves for cosmetic surgery down below - and it has virtually nothing to do with pornography, one London surgeon insists.
  
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• Could Roe v Wade be overturned and abortion outlawed in the US?

  25-02-2017 14:00
  
  The death of the plaintiff from the landmark case has put abortion law in the spotlight again, as a resurgent Republican right seeks to roll back accessWho was Norma McCorvey?
  Norma McCorvey is the real name of the woman known as “Jane Roe” in the landmark US supreme court case on abortion rights, Roe v Wade. The 1973 case established a right for US women to have abortions. McCorvey became the plaintiff after she met with two lawyers looking for a test case to challenge Texas’s
  
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• Will plain packaging on ALCOHOL make us any healthier?

  25-02-2017 13:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fresh from the ruling that UK cigarette companies will no longer be able to distinguish themselves with individual branding, health experts now want the same rule to apply for alcohol.
  
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• Drinking wine before bedtime will make your insomnia worse

  25-02-2017 12:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study this week uncovered this hidden epidemic, finding that a quarter of us regularly use alcohol to get to sleep. One in four people are, effectively, self-medicating with booze to sleep.
  
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• The secret of happiness? Live life in the slow lane

  25-02-2017 12:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Remember, it isn’t the outside world that is a whirlwind; it is only your mind, writes HAEMIN SUNIM. The world has never complained about how busy it is...
  
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• The NHS is struggling. Labour must offer a credible health policy

  25-02-2017 10:30
  
  The Copeland defeat shows ‘save our NHS’ will not be enough to save Labour. It must stop writing its plans on a placardLabour’s attempt to terrify the voters of Copeland with talk of dead babies has failed. Now it needs to get serious about developing a credible health policy.
  In north Cumbria the NHS faces difficult choices on maternity care. It has been struggling to maintain the support services and staffing necessary for consultant-led maternity care of acceptable quality i
  
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• Itchy eyes and runny nose? You could have developed THIS life-changing allergy

  25-02-2017 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HAYFEVER is a common condition but can seriously affect sufferers who battle wit the allergy.
  
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• Menopause the best time for women to begin exercising

  25-02-2017 07:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Menopause may be the ideal time for women to begin exercising, according to research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, because the body adapts better to new exercises.
  
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• Move into a nursing home while you're still fit, says tsar

  25-02-2017 02:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pensioners should consider moving to retirement housing while they are still fit and able, according to Anna Dixon, chief executive of the Centre for Ageing Better.
  
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• Living near bird life improves mental health says study

  25-02-2017 02:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research suggests that living close to bird life can cut the risk of suffering from depression and stress. The Exeter University study shows that areas with more birds have better mental health.
  
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• Maps reveal schizophrenia 'hotspots' in England

  25-02-2017 02:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A study of GP prescriptions reveals patterns of the mental illness in England.
  
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• Going local

  25-02-2017 01:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Around the UK different schemes are trying to deliver better affordable care to those who need it.
  
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