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• How YOGURT can treat depression

  08-03-2017 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine claim the findings show our growing understanding of the gut could allow us to treat mental health naturally.
  
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• Thin mums and their plus-size daughters at war over weight

  08-03-2017 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Their smiles are the same and they both have long, glossy brown hair and pretty eyes. But that’s where the similarities end for Christine Brown and her mother, Carmen.
  
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• Soy products are GOOD for fighting breast cancer

  08-03-2017 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study from Tufts University has found that soy can actually increase survival rates in breast cancer patients due to isoflavones, which slow the growth of breast cancer cells.
  
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• Technology could DESTROY humanity claims Stephen Hawking

  08-03-2017 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The physicist, who has spoken out about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the past says  our 'logic and reason' could be the only way to defeat the growing threat of nuclear or biological war.
  
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• 6 Ways To Make Masturbation Even Better

  08-03-2017 23:01
  
  Give yourself a low five, girl.
  
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• Rick Hay on what you should eat to keep your skin young

  08-03-2017 22:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If only we could stay young and beautiful forever (sigh). But diet can help. Nutritionist Rick Hay explains what to eat for ageing skin.
  
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• Terminally ill Georgia couple reunites after week apart

  08-03-2017 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jerry and Susan Stros, from Acworth, Georgia, were diagnosed with the same form of cancer. After one week apart in different hospices, the married couple reunited in a tearful Facebook video.
  
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• 10 Plants That Can Actually Help You De-Stress

  08-03-2017 22:09
  
  Don’t worry, you can reap the bennies even if you don’t have a green thumb.
  
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• Should You Go Through Your S.O.¹s Phone? A Flow Chart

  08-03-2017 22:08
  
  We're going to make the decision a little easier on you.
  
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• ‘I Stopped Eating Lunch At My Desk—Here’s What I Learned'

  08-03-2017 22:07
  
  Buh-bye, sad desk salad!
  
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• 9 Things That Make It Harder To Lose Weight In Your 20s, 30s, And 40s

  08-03-2017 21:22
  
  It goes way beyond a slowing metabolism.
  
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• Government finances face near-£6bn hit over changes to personal injury payouts

  08-03-2017 21:19
  
  Office for Budget Responsibility says NHS will have to set aside money to meet cost of compensation awards, while car insurance premiums will also riseThe government’s finances will take a near-£6bn hit as a result of the increased bill faced by the NHS and other parts of the public sector as a result of changes made to the way compensation awards for botched operations and other errors are calculated.The lord chancellor, Liz Truss, announced a cut to the so-called Ogden discount rat
  
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• Dutch scientists on how to get super-sized memory in days

  08-03-2017 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that memory training alters brain functions and can double memory capacity (stock image).
  
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• Hammond's budget bows to demands for social care cash injection

  08-03-2017 21:00
  
  Chancellor responds to crisis in care for older people with £2bn extra, but charities are concerned it will not be enough Philip Hammond responded to the growing crisis in social care in England by pledging to put £2bn extra into it over the next three years and also produced an unexpected £425m to help the NHS cope better with winter and transform how it works.Additional money for social care was necessary both to improve the help older people receive as the number of over-75s
  
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• Women who take HRT may live LONGER

  08-03-2017 20:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Women who take hormone replacement therapy to cope with the symptoms of the menopause may live longer, research from California suggests.
  
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• You've Got To See The Stunning Way This Woman Is Documenting Her Double Mastectomy

  08-03-2017 20:28
  
  “I look in the mirror and see my scars as strength."
  
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• Could this stop people dying from sepsis?

  08-03-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team at Duke University in North Carolina has identified a molecule which is present in very high levels if someone’s immune system is in a ‘runaway’ state.
  
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• Plans for handheld chemical tricorder

  08-03-2017 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Australian National University have designed a handheld device that can analyze chemicals in objects. It was inspired by the tricorder from Star Trek which analyzes living things.
  
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• NHS food is 'inedible', says Bake Off's Prue Leith

  08-03-2017 19:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Television cook Prue Leith has claimed 'inedible' NHS food is preventing patients from recovering from illnesses.
  
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• Multiple sclerosis treatment is debunked by researchers in Canada

  08-03-2017 19:03
  
  ‘Liberation therapy’ to widen veins in multiple sclerosis sufferers has been shown to be worthless by Canadian teamA surgical treatment pioneered in Europe that was sought out by thousands of desperate people with multiple sclerosis has been categorically debunked by Canadian researchers.“Liberation therapy” to widen narrowed veins from the brain and spinal cord was devised by the Italian surgeon Dr Paolo Zamboni, who suggested in 2009 that the neurological disease could
  
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• Afraid of Getting Older? Here's Why You Shouldn't Be

  08-03-2017 19:00
  
  Afraid of aging? It can stem from a lot of different anxieties, so it may be helpful to nail down exactly what is frightening you.Are you afraid that the 20-something junior associate will get your job? Being an older employee can give you a leg up, believe me. Confidence and maturity in the workplace go a long way. Just keep demonstrating to yourself and others that you bring expertise that comes only with years of doing the gig, and continue to upgrade your skills and evolve as your company or
  
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• Why X-Files’ Gillian Anderson Wants Women To Open Up About Mental Health

  08-03-2017 18:58
  
  “If we collaborate in secrecy or shame, it keeps us stuck.”
  
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• Nike Launches 'Pro Hijab' for Female Muslim Athletes

  08-03-2017 18:10
  
  This article originally appeared on Fortune.com. In an effort to better serve Muslim athletes, Nike has revealed plans to launch the Pro Hijab.Over the past few years, meetings held at the company’s world headquarters in Oregon revealed top athletes like female weightlifter Amna Al Haddad often had problems competing when wearing a traditional hijab, according to a press release obtained by Fortune. As a result, Nike set out “to make a performance hijab similar to Nike Pro&rsquo
  
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• Americans Are Having Way Less Sex Than They Did 10 Years Ago

  08-03-2017 17:47
  
  A new study indicates we might just be in a nationwide dry spell.
  
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• Budget 2017: Will £100m A&E investment really help NHS?

  08-03-2017 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Specifically aimed at triage, the funding boost is hoped to ease the chronic bed shortage the NHS is currently under. It is hoped it will help to prevent any unnecessary deaths across the country.
  
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• How going to Mars could give you LEUKAEMIA

  08-03-2017 17:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the study on mice transplanted with human stem cells conducted at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, this directly caused blood cancer in the rodents in two ways.
  
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• ‘Will Swapping Eggs For Egg Whites Really Help Me Lose Weight?’

  08-03-2017 17:00
  
  An eggspert (sorry, sorry) weighs in.
  
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• Caffeine can boost enzyme that shields you from dementia

  08-03-2017 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study, from Indiana University Bloomington, has found that several compounds - mainly caffeine - can protect against dementia by boosting production of an enzyme in the brain.
  
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• 'How a game of football made me want to live again'

  08-03-2017 16:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  On James's fifteenth birthday, his father killed himself. It was football that stopped him doing the same.
  
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• Man survives after being impaled by 5ft metal rod in head

  08-03-2017 16:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A construction worker in China has miraculously survived after a steel rod speared through his head when he was at work. Doctors managed to remove the rod after a four-hour-long surgery.
  
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• Want to be healthier and happier? Then watch Planet Earth

  08-03-2017 16:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Planet Earth II boosted our emotions of awe, contentedness, joy and amusement and reduces anxiety, fear and tiredness, the BBC study found.
  
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• Teenager left with 'no face' after routine dental work

  08-03-2017 15:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Suth Ret, 18, from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, developed necrotising fasciitis following a minor procedure to have her one of her teeth removed.
  
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• This Natural Pimple Remedy Actually Works

  08-03-2017 15:31
  
  Banish pesky breakouts with a good-for-you mask.
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow Doesn't Care What You Think About Vagina Steaming or Jade Eggs

  08-03-2017 15:28
  
  "When I find something I think works, I like to share it with people," she says in her cover interview with Women's Health.
  
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• Could there be life after death? Brain activity continues

  08-03-2017 15:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors in a Canadian intensive care unit found a patient who continued to release delta wave bursts for ten minutes after they were declared clinically dead.
  
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• Women MOST likely to ditch their diets when dining out

  08-03-2017 14:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Women on a diet face the greatest temptation to ditch healthy eating when dining with friends, experts from Pittsburgh have found.
  
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• Autism spectrum disorder linked to 18 new genes

  08-03-2017 14:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international group of researchers, funded by New York-based advocacy group Autism Speaks, looked at the analysis of 5,205 whole genetic sequences from families affected by autism.
  
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• Women choose salad when dining with a handsome man

  08-03-2017 14:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study, from Aarhus University, Denmark, found such effects are gender-specific and depend on whether the eating occasion includes same-sex or opposite-sex individuals.
  
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• How red wine could slow down ageing

  08-03-2017 12:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Resveratrol, which exists in the skin of red grapes and gives the fruit its colour, could stop brain cells from breaking down as we get older, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists claim.
  
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• Is it possible to postpone illness?

  08-03-2017 12:30
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsIs there any medical explanation for the concept of not having time to be ill? Every teacher I know will attest to the fact that they do not get ill during term time, but the minute the holidays arrive they fall sick. How could the body make a virus or bacteria wait until the holidays?James O’Neill, Meudon, FranceContinue reading...
  
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• New app that REPLACES doctors to launch nationally

  08-03-2017 12:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Developed by Babylon Health, it is now hoping to roll the concept of chat-bots for NHS 111 helplinesout nationwide. It tells patients which specific service to visit, as close to their home as possible.
  
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• An afternoon with Stan Bowles: the twinkle is still there but the memories are gone

  08-03-2017 11:59
  
  The brilliant former QPR player is suffering from Alzheimer’s, with friends and family pushing for a testimonial year at the club where he dazzled in the 1970sThe smile has not changed, as puckish as it always was; nor has the mischievous glint in Stanley Bowles’s sea-blue eyes. I remember it all like yesterday, when Bowles bedazzled football, weaving, winding through a humiliated defence yet again, in the hoops of Queens Park Rangers, atop the league, back in the 1970s. Related: Foo
  
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• Are you a BINGE drinker? People in THIS region MOST at risk of cancer and liver disease

  08-03-2017 11:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ONE in every four adults drank over the current guidelines of 14 units per week between 2011 and 2014 - with people in the north east most likely to exceed the recommended limit.
  
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• Over half of NHS staff work unpaid overtime every week, survey finds

  08-03-2017 10:19
  
  Annual survey reveals morale is high but workloads, sick rates and overtime highlight challengesThis past year has sent shockwaves through an already challenging working environment in the NHS. From the withdrawal of nursing bursaries and junior doctors’ strikes to the uncertain impact of Brexit on 58,000 EU nationals currently working in the health service, workforce pressures continued to build for an already overstretched service.So what do the findings of the latest NHS staff survey, r
  
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• Smoking can cause lung cancer - but did you know it can cause THIS terrifying condition

  08-03-2017 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE relationship between smoking and sight loss is as strong as the link between smoking and lung cancer, a charity has warned.
  
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• Symptoms of ovarian cancer: Seven signs you could have the disease

  08-03-2017 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  OVARIAN cancer is known as the silent killer because women often dont experience any symptoms until the disease has progressed to an advanced - and often deadly - stage. These are the signs people should look out for.
  
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• Thousands of men to benefit from new prostate therapy

  08-03-2017 09:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A successful trial in Portugal is being followed up in Britain, with results due back later this year. If successful it could be rolled out for routine use on the NHS.
  
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• Could YOU be suffering undiagnosed kidney disease? THIS diet could cause condition

  08-03-2017 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  KIDNEY DISEASE affects approximately three million people across the UK - but experts warn few know the symptoms of the disease and what can cause it.
  
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• Abortion in Ireland: ‘I had to wait for a stillbirth’

  08-03-2017 08:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of Irish women travel abroad for abortions or break the law by taking abortion pills.
  
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• NHS to revamp 111 helpline after sustained criticism of service

  08-03-2017 08:00
  
  More callers will get chance to health professionals under changes to be phased in across England from next monthThe NHS is to revamp its heavily criticised 111 telephone helpline to ensure that many more people get to discuss their illness with a nurse, doctor or other health professional rather than a call handler.GPs and mental health health nurses will also start to play key roles after the overhaul, which is intended to improve public confidence in 111 so that fewer patients visit A&E o
  
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