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• MATT ROBERTS: I want to get fit but I'm in a wheelchair 

  25-03-2017 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A reader who uses a wheelchair (stock photo), and who eats well, has asked health expert Matt Roberts if he could recommend any good seated exercises that they could do to stay healthy.
  
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• HEALTH NOTES: It's the Healthy Bikers - as duo go veggie  

  25-03-2017 23:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Having shed more than six stone between them by making quick and easy dishes, the TV duo have now cooked up a book of meat-free recipes, called The Hairy Dieters Go Veggie.
  
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• Grow up, being a bit sad is NOT a sign of mental illness 

  25-03-2017 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DR MAX: Sometimes life can be a bit tough and you just have to put up with it. That’s a lesson schools should be passing on, alongside the basics such as the 3Rs. Feeling sad is not a mental illness.
  
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• Erectile dysfunction treatment - NEW stem cell therapy could be CURE for impotence

  25-03-2017 11:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ERECTILE dysfunction in men has been effectively treated in a trial using stem cell therapy after prostate surgery.
  
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• Chew on this: the Viva Mayr clinic’s hardcore detox comes to the UK

  25-03-2017 10:00
  
  A cult – and very expensive – Austrian health clinic beloved of Michael Gove, Tracey Emin and the Rolling Stones is coming to London next month. But does it really do anyone any good? The Viva Mayr clinic, a functional-looking alpine lodge, overlooks Lake Altaussee in Austria. Here a very famous supermodel once took off all her clothes and lay down naked on the banks, toes in the water, apparently in an “extreme emotional state”. The witness, another patient at the clinic
  
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• Is THIS infection causing YOUR IBS? Common bacteria could trigger symptoms

  25-03-2017 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THRUSH - is a common infection which can cause itching and soreness - but the condition could be linked to irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS.
  
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• Can the contraceptive pill protect women from cancer?

  25-03-2017 09:00
  
  New research backs up earlier claims that the pill may have some anti-cancer benefits, and suggests the protection might even last for decadesWho is suggesting that the pill might protect women from cancer as well as from pregnancy?The University of Aberdeen, which has been analysing results from the Oral Contraception Study set up by the UK Royal College of General Practitioners more than 40 years ago. There have always been concerns about the mass medication of healthy women, and it 
  
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• The everyday trauma of childbirth made me stop at one child

  25-03-2017 07:15
  
  Polly Clark believes that, for too many women, the shock of childbirth and its aftermath is akin to experiencing war, leaving them adrift, and absent in a profound way – but no one noticesI once caught a glimpse of my medical records moving from trolley to receptionist’s desk at the GP. Perhaps they have long been computerised, but then they were housed in a large, weary-looking file. They had the heft of a first draft of a novel, a comprehensive and messy catalogue of pains and brea
  
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• Stem cells help some men with erectile dysfunction after prostate surgery

  25-03-2017 06:08
  
  In clinical trials, eight out of 15 men suffering from erectile dysfunction had sex six months after one-time treatmentMen unable to have an erection after prostate surgery enjoyed normal intercourse thanks to stem cell therapy, scientists are to report on Saturday at a medical conference in London.
  In first-phase clinical trials, eight out of 15 continent men suffering from erectile dysfunction had sex six months after the one-time treatment, without recourse to drugs or penile implants. Relate
  
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• How pine tree bark could make your fillings last longer

  25-03-2017 01:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The root alters the chemical structure of teeth to make them stronger. About 80 per cent have at least one filling, used to repair damage and decay. The bark strengthened the dentine in the teeth.
  
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• Cardboard cribs

  25-03-2017 01:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What evidence is there that Finland's famous baby boxes actually reduce infant mortality rates?
  
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• Julianne Hough opens up about struggle with endometriosis 

  25-03-2017 00:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dancing with the Stars' Julianne Hough opened up about her struggle with endometriosis as she joins a campaign to raise awareness about the condition that affects 6.5 million women in the US.
  
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