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• 5 Friends Every Badass Babe Should Have in Her #GirlSquad

  28-02-2017 23:41
  
  When you're assembling your all-star team, these are the types of Badass Babes you need in your squad!
  
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• ​The Man’s Guide to Shirt Cuffs

  28-02-2017 23:38
  
  What good is a Rolex when your shirt cuffs are all wrong?
  
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• Why People With Back Pain Die Before Their Time

  28-02-2017 23:31
  
  Are your aches hinting at something more sinister?
  
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• 12 Thoughts Every Girl Has During Doggy Style

  28-02-2017 23:18
  
  Who let the dogs out?
  
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• Juice Press Infused Waters

  28-02-2017 23:17
  
  Upgrade your water routine with these easy-to-sip waters.
  
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• 6 Women Share The Exact Meal Plans That Helped Them Lose 10 Pounds

  28-02-2017 23:17
  
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• If You’re Under 30, Your Risk For Colon Cancer Just Doubled

  28-02-2017 23:15
  
  Know the signs, no matter your age
  
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• What Every Gardener Should Know About Mulching

  28-02-2017 22:51
  
  Adding mulch to your garden is one of the best things you can do for healthy soil—here are 6 ways to do it right.
  
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• Gene therapy 'extraordinary' at fighting blood cancer

  28-02-2017 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California-based Kite Pharma, is racing Novartis AG to become the first to win approval of the treatment, called CAR-T cell therapy, in the U.S. It could be the nation's first approved gene therapy.
  
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• ​Could You Handle Ruth Ginsburg’s Workout?

  28-02-2017 22:45
  
  ​The 83-year-old Supreme Court justice works out twice a week with her personal trainer
  
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• ​How to Hang Stuff On Your Walls

  28-02-2017 22:36
  
  It's about time you learned how to use a leveler
  
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• Tragedy of twin sisters both suffering from rare disease

  28-02-2017 22:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twin sisters Amelia and Makenzie Kahn, 7, from Scottsdale, Arizona, both have Batten disease - a rare disease that will make them lose their vision, speech and mobility, and could kill them.
  
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• An App That Rescues Your Restaurant Leftovers (Plus 4 More Amazing Ways To Stop Wasting Food)

  28-02-2017 22:20
  
  With food waste posing a huge problem in the US, these creative fixes are tackling the problem head on.
  
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• 'Why I Love My High Sex Drive'

  28-02-2017 22:11
  
  Sex-positive blogger Maya Dinerstein, 23, shares why feeling herself had made her sex life amazeballs.
  
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• Your March Sex Horoscope: Your Sex Life Needs A Spring Cleaning

  28-02-2017 22:09
  
  The reward: better orgasms.
  
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• How 11 Real Women Achieved Their Money Goals

  28-02-2017 22:04
  
  From paying down debt to opening their dream business.
  
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• These Two Things Can Cut Your Risk Of Heart Failure

  28-02-2017 21:52
  
  They’ll do your body good in a bunch of other ways, too
  
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• Is YOUR girlfriend going to cheat on you?

  28-02-2017 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sex experts conducted a study of 259 heterosexual college students - and found an unusual predictor of how likely females are to cheat on their partners
  
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• People Are Freaking Out About This Photo Of Kourtney Kardashian And Her Daughter

  28-02-2017 21:04
  
  We'll let you decide how you feel about what’s going on here.
  
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• What’s That On Your Hoo-Ha? 5 Vaginal Conditions You Need To Know About

  28-02-2017 20:27
  
  All the intel you need on these below-the-belt conditions.
  
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• The Guardian view on Jeremy Hunt: he must practise what he preaches | Editorial

  28-02-2017 20:16
  
  Monumental failures with patient correspondence put lives at risk. The Department for Health needs to ask what needs to change to ensure it doesn’t happen again“Just how easy is it to speak about things that have gone wrong?”, asked health secretary Jeremy Hunt in a speech he made last year about improving transparency and ending the blame culture in the NHS. Mr Hunt is himself failing badly on this critical benchmark for greater openness. The Guardian this week has revealed th
  
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• Why I’m marching for the NHS on Saturday | Letters

  28-02-2017 20:08
  
  People ask me if I think the March for the NHS in London this coming Saturday (4 March) will make any difference to the way Theresa May thinks. I can only say that I can’t be sure that it won’t. There is a risk that a small turnout will signal to the government that they can complete their project to get rid of socialised healthcare with impunity. A big turnout with no obvious result may be taken – as with the huge anti-war march in 2003 and what happened next – as eviden
  
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• How Can I Work Out Outside Without Aggravating My Allergies?

  28-02-2017 20:02
  
  A little prep work will keep you breathing easy.
  
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• Does This 83-Year-Old Supreme Court Justice Work Out Harder Than You?

  28-02-2017 20:00
  
  The jury's out.
  
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• Breast surgeon Ian Paterson 'invented cancer risks'

  28-02-2017 19:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ian Paterson denies 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and one man.
  
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• Poll shows 60% of European doctors are considering leaving UK

  28-02-2017 19:51
  
  General Medical Council tells MPs that survey found Brexit was a factor for majority of doctors thinking of leavingMore than half of the doctors from Europe working in the UK are considering leaving the country because of Brexit, a survey by the General Medical Council indicates.Related: Thousands of doctors trained in Europe 'may quit UK after Brexit'Related: David Davis tells cabinet to prepare for 'unlikely' possibility of UK not getting Brexit deal - Politics liveRelated: From a German docto
  
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• Decline in second cancer among childhood survivors

  28-02-2017 19:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study by St Jude Children's Research Hospital has found that childhood cancer survivorshave fewer occurrences of a second cancer thanks to a decrease in the use of radiation therapy.
  
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• Man is FOURTH person to survive multiple organ transplant

  28-02-2017 19:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A man from Yorkshire became one of just four people in the world to survive multiple organ transplant surgery in a bid to beat his incurable cancer.
  
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• Do you REALLY want to quit sugar for Lent?

  28-02-2017 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jordan Gaines Lewis, a PhD candidate at Penn State College of Medicine, explains what happens to the brain when a person gives up sugar.
  
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• Cell 'stickiness' could indicate cancer spread

  28-02-2017 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new study finds that cells that 'stick' less to surrounding cells are more likely to spread.
  
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• Lindsey Vonn Embraces Her Scars: 'My Scars Remind Me That I Am Strong and Beautiful'

  28-02-2017 17:47
  
  This article originally appeared on People.com. Lindsey Vonn doesn’t feel the need to cover up her scars.The Olympic skier, 32, proudly shows a long scar on the back of her right arm in a photo she shared on Twitter on on Monday in which she wears the form-fitting black sleeveless dress she wore to attend Giorgio Armani’s fashion show during Milan Fashion Week.“My scars remind me that I am strong and beautiful,” she tweeted along with the photo. “Than
  
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• This Simple Thing May Indicate You’re at Risk for Dementia

  28-02-2017 17:38
  
  This article originally appeared on RealSimple.com. Older adults who begin sleeping more than nine hours a night might want to talk to their doctors about their increased need for shuteye: A new study suggests that it may be an early sign of dementia.But that’s not to say that every parent or grandparent who starts snoozing extra will definitely develop memory problems. There are a lot of other conditions that can affect sleepiness and time spent in bed, says study co-author Matthew P
  
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• Your Favorite 'Dance Moms' Star Might Be Going To Jail

  28-02-2017 17:32
  
  Abby Lee Miller is in big trouble—here’s why.
  
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• Why walnuts make men more fertile

  28-02-2017 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study from the University of Delaware has found that walnuts could be the key to improving male fertility because they reduce lipid peroxidation -a process that can damage sperm cells.
  
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• Teen has broken her bones ONE THOUSAND times

  28-02-2017 17:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A teenager from Northern India has broken her bones over a 1,000 times due to a rare condition called Ontogenesis Imperfecta that's so extreme even mere noise is problematic.
  
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• Could fruit and steak cure epilepsy?

  28-02-2017 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Super-refractory status epilepticus is the most severe classification of the brain condition, killing 60 per cent of sufferers. Johns Hopkins University researchers may have found a cure.
  
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• How Many Avocados Is It Safe To Eat Per Week?

  28-02-2017 16:29
  
  Sadly, the answer is NOT "all of them."
  
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• Drug and mental health admissions highest for a decade

  28-02-2017 16:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One in 12 people aged 16 to 59 in England had taken an illicit drug in the last year.
  
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• Young people more likely to develop bowel cancer

  28-02-2017 16:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Millennials - those born between 1980 and 1995 - are four times more likely to develop rectal tumorscompared to those born around 1950, the American Cancer Society warns.
  
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• Children NEED a good diet if their mother ate junk food

  28-02-2017 16:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pregnant women with diets high in junk food increase the risk of their children being obese. But a new University of Cincinnati study shows the effects can be lessened.
  
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• Living with anxiety: 'I can't leave house'

  28-02-2017 16:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  John in Britain says he hasn't left his house this year due to his anxiety disorder, as politicians in the UK question whether the condition is a disability.
  
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• The 10-a-day diet tested: 'I feel like a sentient composter'

  28-02-2017 16:03
  
  New research suggests that we ought to be eating 10 portions of fruit and veg a day. Stuart Heritage plies himself with the good stuff, and Guardian cook Felicity Cloake judges his effortsLike everyone else in the world, my blood ran cold when I heard that we are now expected to eat 10 portions of fruit and vegetables every day. That is double the previous recommended amount, and even that required too much effort for my liking. Oh, sure, the effects of 10 a day sound miraculous – research
  
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• ‘How I Lost 77 Pounds By Eating More Fat’

  28-02-2017 15:51
  
  Candy Spiegel was ready to give up her weight loss battle—until a revolutionary new way of eating changed everything.
  
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• What impact will Brexit have on nursing?

  28-02-2017 13:45
  
  The NHS faces a major shortfall in nurses – and the EU referendum result threatens to derail supply furtherThe NHS faces a severe nursing shortage. An ageing population has pushed up demand, while an ageing nursing workforce – with one in three nurses set to retire in the next 10 years – is reducing supply. The shortage is particularly acute in mental health, with specialist nurse numbers falling more than 10% in the past five years.And the Brexit vote may make it even worse. A
  
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• The student left looking like a SNAKE due to exam stress

  28-02-2017 13:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Beth Webster, 23, first noticed a few small spots on her arm in the final year of her chemistry degree at the University of Aberdeen. Doctors diagnosed her with psoriasis.
  
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• Doctors asking 'least bad' patients to sleep in corridors

  28-02-2017 13:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Royal College of Physicians said its reports shows that GPs are facing 'bed and staff shortages' as well as a 'lack of resources' which are fueling the NHS crisis .
  
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• Cure for type 2 diabetes: THIS diet could REVERSE condition by boosting pancreas

  28-02-2017 12:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A DIET - which features meals ranging from 770 to 1,100 calories a day - could reverse diabetes - but kick-starting insulin producing cells in the pancreas.
  
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• Epilepsy drug relieves symptoms that cause migraines

  28-02-2017 12:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Known as Lyrica, it relieves a seizure-like phenomenon believed to be the underlying cause of the blinding headaches, according to researchers from British Columbia University, Canada.
  
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• 'Nursing makes all the difference in healthcare': how the job has changed

  28-02-2017 12:23
  
  The profession’s agenda has extended but staffing levels, pay, Brexit and compassion fatigue are significant issuesIt’s 30 years since Trevor Clay challenged his fellow nurses to rise up and make their voices heard. The profession had been “remarkably insular”, he wrote, and to its lasting cost had taken little heed of the social, political and economic forces that shaped its practice.Clay, the charismatic leader of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) during its period of
  
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• Eggs lose free-range status on Pancake Day

  28-02-2017 11:57
  
  Boxes to carry sticker stating hens were kept in barns amid bird flu restrictions – though shoppers will still pay premium priceOn Shrove Tuesday, the biggest egg-buying day of the year, UK consumers are being warned that eggs branded as free range have actually been laid by housed hens because of emergency measures to combat the spread of bird flu.All free-range egg boxes will carry a sticker explaining that the box contains “eggs laid by hens temporarily housed in barns for their w
  
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