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• Cerebral palsy patient, 11, says first words

  13-03-2017 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The hope and anticipation felt by Holly Greenhow and her family when their flight touched down in Los Angeles was tempered by not a little trepidation.
  
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• Can your blood type protect you from getting dementia?

  13-03-2017 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Different blood groups are determined by the sugars and proteins that coat your red blood cells. Now, Turkish scientists believe your blood type affects your chances of getting cancer or blood clots.
  
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• The £15 supermarket trainers challenging the big brands

  13-03-2017 23:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Trainers have come a long way since the days of the plimsoll — and you can easily pay more than £200 for a branded pair.
  
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• Try This Meditation Technique to Quiet Your Inner Critic Once and for All

  13-03-2017 23:08
  
  Want to develop more kindness for yourself, for your loved ones, even for people you can’t stand? Starting a practice of lovingkindness (known in the Buddhist tradition as metta), can help. The good news is you don’t have to be an expert meditator to try it; you can add it to your existing routine, or use it as an entry point into a new practice.To learn more, we spoke with expert Sharon Salzberg. She’s a co-founder of the esteemed Insight Meditation Society in B
  
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• 7 Women Share What It’s Really Like To Be Fired

  13-03-2017 23:00
  
  Some of them kinda deserved it…
  
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• Baby toys are getting more dangerous, data reveals

  13-03-2017 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new analysis reveals there are more than 66,000 injuries a year on average in the US, and it only counts infants and toddlers who visit the emergency room.
  
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• The Sirtfood Diet Includes Wine And Chocolate, But Can It Help You Lose Weight?

  13-03-2017 22:30
  
  It sounds too good to be true…
  
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• ‘I Date Sugar Daddies—And Here’s Why I Love It’

  13-03-2017 22:29
  
  "We laugh loudly, kiss deeply, dance off beat, and hold hands while we sleep, but we never mistake that for love.”
  
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• Cystic fibrosis patients live 10 years longer in Canada

  13-03-2017 22:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Although the neighboring countries have the same proportion of cystic fibrosis patients, Canadians are far more likely to receive a lung transplant than Americans with the same incurable disease.
  
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• Fish oil supplements ONLY work if you have heart failure

  13-03-2017 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the American Heart Association found they do wonders for those with heart failure, protecting them from complications. But they recorded no benefits in healthy people.
  
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• Northern Ireland police raided premises in search for abortion pills

  13-03-2017 20:15
  
  PSNI confirms raids on International Women’s Day, with owner of one address saying she felt ‘violated and humiliated’The Police Service of Northern Ireland raided two premises on International Women’s Day searching for abortion pills that are illegal in the region.No pills were found during the searches last week, including one at a workshop belonging to the Belfast pro-choice campaigner Helen Crickard. Crickard said she felt “violated and humiliated” over the
  
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• Vegan charity warns EGGS give you cancer - expert unveils the TRUTH behind the claim

  13-03-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A VEGAN charity’s research has suggested that eating more than two eggs a week increases the risk of prostate and ovarian cancer - so should we cut them out our diet?
  
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• Mind-reading AI knows whether you are guilty or innocent

  13-03-2017 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Virginia Tech have created an AI brain scanning system which can predict whether volunteers knowingly carried drugs during a simulated border smuggling operation.
  
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• 7 Reasons Why You’ve Got A Pins-And-Needles Sensation In Your Hands And Feet

  13-03-2017 20:00
  
  Sometimes it’s NBD. Others, not so much.
  
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• NY surgeon claims he can add 1.5 inches to men's penises

  13-03-2017 19:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Norman Rowe, a board-certified New York plastic surgeon has debuted a 10-minute Botox-style procedure - that involves injecting one's own blood into their genitals to create girth.
  
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• Guys From This Country Tell The Biggest Lies About Their Penis Size

  13-03-2017 19:51
  
  You’ve been warned.
  
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• 5 Reasons You Can't Lose Your Belly Fat, No Matter How Much You Work Out

  13-03-2017 19:46
  
  Number 4 might make you rethink everything.
  
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• 8 Nutritionists Share Their Go-To Sweet Treats

  13-03-2017 19:34
  
  Expert-approved ways to deal with a sugar craving.
  
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• Brexit and the treatment of children with cancer | Letters

  13-03-2017 19:30
  
  The warning that children with cancer risk missing out on drug trials (Report, 9 March) highlights an issue that has been largely overlooked in the Brexit debate. I led work on the EU clinical trials regulation, which will come into force in 2018. By harmonising EU law and creating a single application portal, this will make it easier to carry out clinical trials in more than one country. Cross-border trials are particularly important for paediatric cancers because there are usually no
  
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• Are Different Pillows For 'Side Sleepers' and 'Back Sleepers' B.S.?

  13-03-2017 18:38
  
  What you need to know before hitting up Bed Bath & Beyond.
  
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• Drugs for 'Angelina Jolie' gene could help Cancer patients

  13-03-2017 18:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Hollywood actress had a double mastectomy in 2013 after finding out she carried the BRCA gene mutation. But people without the inherited DNA can have similar forms of the disease.
  
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• People Are Freaking Out About The Ivanka Trump SNL Skit—Here's Why

  13-03-2017 17:44
  
  Do you think the show treated her fairly?
  
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• MPs win right to challenge Victorian law criminalising abortion

  13-03-2017 17:42
  
  Offences Against the Person Act 1861 makes a woman’s decision to terminate her own pregnancy punishable by life in prisonMPs have won the right to introduce a bill to parliament which would decriminalise abortion for the first time by repealing a law that dates back to Victorian times.A ten-minute rule bill introduced by Diana Johnson, the Labour MP for Hull North, sought permission of the House to change two sections of a law passed in 1861, before women had the vote. It succeeded by 170
  
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• Strawberries and pears contain high levels of pesticides

  13-03-2017 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found 70 percent of strawberries have traces of pesticides - more than any other fruit, pushing them to the top of the Environmental Working Group's ' Dirty Dozen' list.
  
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• Your Orgasm Might Have This Crazy Effect On Your Partner

  13-03-2017 17:20
  
  Win-win?
  
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• Paralysis inspires MS discovery

  13-03-2017 17:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How a life-changing event led one researcher to uncover how the immune system repairs the brain.
  
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• How dogs could detect BOWEL cancer: Trial could speed up diagnosis of deadly disease

  13-03-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A TRIAL testing dogs' ability to detect bowel cancer in urine and stool samples has been given the green light - with experts hoping that the results could pave the way for faster cancer diagnosis.
  
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• Meningitis death girl Izzy Gentry 'not given a chance'

  13-03-2017 16:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A girl who died from meningitis "wasn't given a chance" after being sent home from hospital, an inquest hears.
  
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• 'The 6 Things Everyone Always Asks Me About Working With Gwyneth Paltrow'

  13-03-2017 16:23
  
  And before you ask: Yes, she eats.
  
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• John Oliver on Trumpcare: 'the Ted Cruz of healthcare legislation'

  13-03-2017 16:22
  
  The host of Last Week Tonight explained why the latest healthcare reform will hurt many Americans, especially those who voted for TrumpJohn Oliver has criticized the latest healthcare reform, referring to it as “shitty Obamacare”. Related: Saturday Night Live: Scarlett Johansson gives political jokes some biteRelated: Late-night TV hosts on healthcare reform: 'Don't call it Trumpcare'Continue reading...
  
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• ​Demi Lovato Just Chopped Off Her Hair and It Looks Amazing

  13-03-2017 16:10
  
  The singer and mental health advocate is trying a new look.
  
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• People see black men as bigger and more threatening

  13-03-2017 15:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This could explain why black men, such as Philando Castile (pictured), are more likely to be shot by police, according to researchers from Montclair State University in New Jersey.
  
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• Private healthcare firm signs Uber deal for carers and patients

  13-03-2017 15:17
  
  Cera to use app-based taxi firm to transport London-based carers to patients and to allow disabled customers to get around
  • This article replaces an earlier story that was based on an incorrect agency report.
  A private healthcare provider has signed a deal with Uber to transport its carers and home patients. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘How Exercise Helped Me Get Over My Addiction’

  13-03-2017 15:07
  
  SoulCycle’s Stacey Griffiths faced her lowest low, and then overcame it.
  
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• IBS cure? Probiotics could REDUCE irritable bowel syndrome symptoms AND stress

  13-03-2017 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IRRITABLE bowel syndrome affects around one in five people in the UK, causing abdominal pains and cramping, diarrhoea, constipation and an urgent need to go to the toilet. But experts believe perhaps the gut could protect against stress.
  
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• Australia considers childcare ban on unvaccinated children

  13-03-2017 14:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Unvaccinated children would be banned from childcare centres under a government plan.
  
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• Old people AREN'T boring

  13-03-2017 14:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study, conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, also found that older participants tended to make worse decisions than their younger counterparts.
  
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• Binding decisions

  13-03-2017 14:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After singer Rochelle Humes turns hers into art, we look at what else you can do with an umbilical cord.
  
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• Virtual reality experiment puts altruism to the test  

  13-03-2017 13:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste has found that altruistic people have an enlarged area, known as the right anterior insula (shown in red).
  
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• 6 Ways To Get A Better Cardio Workout During Your Next Hike

  13-03-2017 13:52
  
  Less leisurely stroll, more intense sweat sesh.
  
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• Synthetic cannabis encourages students to try heroin

  13-03-2017 13:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Users of spice, a synthetic cannabinoid, also reported more having been in more physical fights, according to the latest research from the University of Texas.
  
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• Nausea is a symptom of THIS rare male cancer - do you know the signs?

  13-03-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BREAST cancer is widely considered to be a disease which only affects women. However, men should also be aware of the signs and symptoms of the condition because the form of cancer - although rare - can be deadly among males.
  
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• Mother, 34, left for dead after botched tummy tuck

  13-03-2017 12:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Quanna Brown, 34, from Chicago, Illinois, decided to have the operation in June 2015 after being called ugly and fat. However, the procedure to improve her confidence went wrong.
  
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• NHS data loss scandal has prompted five inquiries, ministers say

  13-03-2017 12:34
  
  Government accused of ‘huge cover-up’ over its response to outcry over 515,000 lost test results and doctors’ lettersThe NHS’s loss of more than half a million pieces of confidential medical correspondence is so serious that it has triggered five separate investigations, ministers have admitted.The disclosure has prompted claims that the scale of the loss of 515,000 test results and doctors’ letters was hidden in “a huge cover-up”. It raises fresh questi
  
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• THIS check could screen you for heart disease - before ANY symptoms appear

  13-03-2017 12:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A CALCIUM scan could screen people for heart disease - years before any symptoms start to develop, experts have revealed.
  
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• People not as nice as they think, say psychologists

  13-03-2017 12:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Goldsmiths University in London revealed that people think they are more agreeable than they are - 98% of the British population consider themselves in the nicest 50% (stock image)
  
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• People with dementia 'failed' by deprivation of liberty law

  13-03-2017 12:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Vulnerable people are being detained in care without proper checks, senior lawyers say.
  
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• 'My vulva cupcakes were confiscated' - a day in the life of an anti-FGM campaigner

  13-03-2017 12:05
  
  Campaigning against FGM around the world gets Leyla Hussein into some interesting situations. But she didn’t expect to be so affected by going ‘home’Smuggling vulva-decorated cupcakes into the Somali region of Ethiopia was one of those moments where I thought: “My work as an anti-FGM campaigner gets me into interesting situations sometimes.”Three years earlier I’d made vulva cupcakes as part of a documentary about FGM that I’d done for Channel 4. “
  
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• Thousands of vulnerable people held unlawfully in care homes – report

  13-03-2017 12:00
  
  Law Commission study, laid before parliament, reveals growing strain on already overburdened care systemTens of thousands of vulnerable people with dementia and learning disabilities are being detained unlawfully in hospitals and care homes across Britain, the Law Commission has said.
  Replacing the “administrative and bureaucratic nightmare” system of deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) would speed up checks and allow care workers to concentrate on those most at risk, the legal
  
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• Why is there so little social diversity in medicine? | Zara Aziz

  13-03-2017 11:59
  
  Only 7% of students across the UK are privately educated, but 26% of medical students went to fee-paying schoolsMedicine in the UK has traditionally been deemed an elite profession that excludes those from low socioeconomic groups. A mere 7% of students are privately educated, but 26% of medical students went to fee-paying schools. However, when you look closely at the figures, many students leave school at 16, and 18% of 16- to 18-year-olds are in fact privately educated; the proportion is even
  
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