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• ​7 Things You Need to Know Before Your First Half-Marathon

  26-04-2017 23:57
  
  ​Because knowledge is race-day bliss.
  
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• Why the pill affects some women more than others

  26-04-2017 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study, from the NIMH, has found that estrogen alters a memory circuit in women with a certain gene variant, which explains why the pill affects some more than others.
  
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• 5 Things To Know About The Health Issue That Could Shut Down The Government

  26-04-2017 23:11
  
  This article originally appeared on Kaiser Health News. Congress must pass a bill this week to keep most of the government running beyond Friday, when a government spending bill runs out. It won’t be easy.The debate over a new spending bill focuses on an esoteric issue affecting the Affordable Care Act.[brightcove:5377671624001 default]The question is whether Congress will pass — and President Donald Trump will sign — a bill that also funds subsidies for lower-in
  
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• Watch Out For These 4 Phrases If You Want To Lose Weight

  26-04-2017 22:59
  
  Ban these from your vocab and your shopping cart.
  
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• THIS Is How To Unclog Your Ears Without Doing Any Damage

  26-04-2017 22:20
  
  Hands off the Q-tips.
  
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• Parkinson's disease 'could start in the STOMACH before spreading to the brain'

  26-04-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PARKINSON'S disease may start in the stomach before spreading to the brain, according to new research.
  
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• ENERGY DRINK WARNING: Just ONE could trigger 'life threatening' changes in blood pressure

  26-04-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  JUST one energy drink can trigger potentially "life threatening" changes in blood pressure and the heart, warns new research.
  
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• Three espressos a day cuts prostate cancer risk by 50%

  26-04-2017 21:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study, from the Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed in Italy, has found that drinking three espressos a day can reduce your risk of prostate cancer by 53 percent.
  
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• The Best Outdoor Cardio Workout You've Never Heard Of Before

  26-04-2017 21:24
  
  You'll sweat like a beast, but feel like a badass.
  
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• 'Can I Take Metformin If I Want To Lose Weight?'

  26-04-2017 21:21
  
  Some doctors are now prescribing this diabetes drug for weight loss. But is it safe?
  
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• Woman Says She Had 'No Body Confidence' When She Was 98 Lbs. and Feels Better with Muscles & Curves

  26-04-2017 21:08
  
  This article originally appeared on People.com. Bethany Tomlinson didn’t feel comfortable with her naturally thin frame, and says gaining muscle definition and curves has helped her to feel better about her body than ever before.[brightcove:5339322755001 default]“I just had no body confidence,” the U.K. university student, 22, tells PEOPLE of her former 7 stone (about 98 lbs.) self. “I picked on myself in the mirror and really tore myself apart.”Tomlinson
  
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• 'I Was Diagnosed With Autism As An Adult—Here's What It's Like'

  26-04-2017 20:53
  
  "I knew I had this beautiful way of experiencing the world, but I also knew that I was a little bit alone in experiencing it that way."
  
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• Cancer news: Chemotherapy LINKED to depression in sufferers

  26-04-2017 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CANCER is often treated using chemotherapy, but a new study says it can increase risk of depression in patients.
  
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• For a Mid-Day Energy Boost, Choose the Stairs Over Soda

  26-04-2017 20:23
  
  This article originally appeared on RealSimple.com. The next time you feel a 3 p.m. slump coming on, skip the vending machine and head to the stairwell instead. According to a brilliant new study, 10 minutes of stair-walking is better for energy levels and work motivation than the amount of caffeine in a can of soda.[brightcove:5410904496001 default]For the new research, published in the journal Physiology and Behavior, University of Georgia researchers wanted to measure the effects of a si
  
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• Coca-Cola Apparently Really Wants To Help You Poop

  26-04-2017 20:21
  
  ​They've launched a new line of fiber-filled sodas. Here's what you need to know.
  
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• Sleeping pills double the risk of a broken hip in 14 days

  26-04-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Taking benzodiazepines and so-called 'z-drugs' increases the risk of a fracture by 53 per cent after 15 to 30 days, according to researchers at Cardiff University and King's College London.
  
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• New mothers being denied life-saving £3 drug

  26-04-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using tranexamic acid within three hours of a bleed also reduced the need for major surgery by 36 per cent, the team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found.
  
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• Travel warning: Holidaymakers skipping vaccines risk DEATH from tropical diseases

  26-04-2017 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TRAVEL vaccinations are recommended for many countries visited by British holidaymakers, but many risk death and illness by going without.
  
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• 6 Women Share Why They Called Off Their Divorces

  26-04-2017 19:41
  
  "I felt like I could help change him back to who he used to be."
  
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• Smart blood test can show whether lung cancer will return

  26-04-2017 19:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts at the Francis Crick Institute in London found unstable chromosomes within lung cancer cells dramatically increased the risk of tumours returning after surgery.
  
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• Working brain circuitry grown in a lab dish for first time

  26-04-2017 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Stanford University in California stimulated two different types of neuron to join up and work together as they would do in a real human forebrain.
  
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• 'Exciting' blood test spots cancer a year early

  26-04-2017 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The discovery allows doctors to detect returning tumours earlier and increases chances of a cure.
  
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• DNA-based test can spot cancer recurrence a year before conventional scans

  26-04-2017 19:00
  
  ‘Liquid biopsy’ diagnosed cancer recurrence up to a year before CT scans are able to in major lung cancer trial, and could buy crucial time for doctorsA revolutionary blood test has been shown to diagnose the recurrence of cancer up to a year in advance of conventional scans in a major lung cancer trial.The test, known as a liquid biopsy, could buy crucial time for doctors by indicating that cancer is growing in the body when tumours are not yet detectable on CT scans and long before
  
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• Councils and health boards dispute £250m care costs

  26-04-2017 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Law lords must decide who pays for nurses delivering social care in residential homes.
  
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• Illegal pot use increased MORE in states with medical laws

  26-04-2017 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The research, published by JAMA on Wednesday, is the first to do a deep review of data from before laws came in. They also found a spike in cannabis-related disorders in medical cannabis states.
  
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• It's not a perk when big employers offer egg-freezing – it's a bogus bribe | Suzanne Moore

  26-04-2017 18:29
  
  Companies such as Apple and Facebook are helping female employees put off motherhood in the name of empowerment. But these women are being dealt a dodgy hand Although you may want one, you do not need a relationship with a man to have a baby. You need money and time. You can buy sperm; sometimes it even comes for free. These are the new facts of life. Or, rather, the alternative facts that we are sold in the name of that moronic catch-all “empowerment”. You can empower yourself as a
  
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• It's not a perk when big employers offer egg-freezing – it's a bogus bribe

  26-04-2017 18:29
  
  Companies such as Apple and Facebook are helping female employees put off motherhood in the name of empowerment. But these women are being dealt a dodgy hand Although you may want one, you do not need a relationship with a man to have a baby. You need money and time. You can buy sperm; sometimes it even comes for free. These are the new facts of life. Or, rather, the alternative facts that we are sold in the name of that moronic catch-all “empowerment”. You can empower yourself as a
  
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• Hip-to-waist ratio is more important than BMI, study says

  26-04-2017 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study, from the UK and Australia, has determined that your hip-to-waist ratio is a better indicator of how healthy you are compared to your Body Mass Index (BMI).
  
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• Going to NHS hospital on a weekend may be deadly

  26-04-2017 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patients who are admitted to hospital at the weekend are more likely to die within 30 days. The latest findings of 133 NHS Trusts support evidence of a so-called NHS 'weekend effect.
  
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• Indian man, 49, had tumour removed from his abdomen  

  26-04-2017 18:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shyamal Tirke, 49, from India, had a 44lb mass that was crushing his organs removed after a year of agony and vomiting. His family stopped talking to him after a witch doctor failed to help.
  
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• Lung cancer BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists can PREDICT tumours returning after surgery

  26-04-2017 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LUNG cancer returning after surgery could be predicted as scientists discover tell-tale unstable chromosomes in tumours.
  
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• 4 Things You'd Never Guess Could Cause Skin Cancer—But Totally Can

  26-04-2017 17:45
  
  Major bummer about #1 on the list.
  
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• ​You Have To See Selena Gomez's STUNNING New Haircut

  26-04-2017 17:15
  
  ​She posted a mysterious Instagram hinting at a chic new look.
  
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• Diet foods could actually be making you FAT

  26-04-2017 16:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Foods marketed as helping you shed excess pounds may be damaging your quest to get beach body ready, a study from the University of Georgia has found.
  
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• The Workout That Helped This Mother Of 4 Lose 150 Pounds

  26-04-2017 16:53
  
  "It is hard juggling it all, but it’s so worth it."
  
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• How Kendall Jenner maintains her incredible figure

  26-04-2017 16:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  What does a workout for Kendall Jenner entail? Here, in a piece for Healthista, her Los Angeles-based personal trainer, Gunnar Peterson, explains all.
  
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• 'I am a criminal. What is my crime?': the human toll of abortion in Afghanistan

  26-04-2017 16:52
  
  When Maryam had an abortion, her husband beat and humiliated her. Her story is not unusual in Afghanistan, yet illegal, unsafe terminations are on the riseAs a newlywed, Maryam’s husband promised to let her finish her university degree. Then she got pregnant, and everything changed. “For a week, I was in shock. If my husband’s family knew I was pregnant, they would never let me finish university,” Maryam said. Related: Trump funding cuts would imperil tens of thousands of
  
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• 'After 9 Years Without A Period, I’ve Stopped Running'

  26-04-2017 16:45
  
  "I’m taking a break. And taking back my body."
  
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• This Is The Insane Sex Toy Kourtney Kardashian Just Got For Her Birthday

  26-04-2017 16:35
  
  Bonus: It's under $20.
  
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• The scariest superbug on CDC's radar is a deadly fungus

  26-04-2017 16:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Public health officials have revealed that a superbug - Candida auris, a harmful yeast - is on the CDC's radar after spreading to US hospitals, particularly in New York and New Jersey.
  
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• Watch This Woman Pop Her Husband's Giant 4-Year-Old Pimple

  26-04-2017 16:26
  
  Because true love knows no boundaries.
  
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• 3 Insanely Delicious Burger Combos You Have To Try

  26-04-2017 16:19
  
  Fire up the grill!
  
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• Anne-Marie Slaughter: A year's maternity leave is too long for mothers

  26-04-2017 16:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Hillary Clinton advisor Anne-Marie Slaughter clarifies why she thinks a year of maternity leave is too long for working mothers.
  
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• Prostate cancer update: Drinking THIS can HALVE your risk

  26-04-2017 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PROSTATE cancer risk could be reduced by over half by drinking your coffee at express speed as an Italian-style espresso, according to a new study.
  
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• 'Reading MailOnline saved my life'

  26-04-2017 16:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: James Murray, 47, from Elloughton, began choking on a sandwich he made in his kitchen last Friday. His wife, Rachel's attempts to clear his airways proved ineffective.
  
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• Reality Check: How much will Labour's NHS plans cost?

  26-04-2017 16:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reality Check looks at how much aspects of Labour's NHS proposals could cost.
  
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• Britain's Got Talent 2008 winner George Sampson has had a hair transplant

  26-04-2017 15:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The dancer says head spinning is partly behind his hair loss.
  
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• Depression cure - THIS surprising therapy could be alternative to taking pills

  26-04-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A DEPRESSION treatment where the brain is stimulated by a deep magnetic pulse could be an alternative to taking antidepressants.
  
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• General election 2017: Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn square off in final PMQs before election – politics live

  26-04-2017 15:26
  
  Live coverage of all the day’s campaign action with the last PMQs before the election and a row over Labour’s NHS funding promisesLabour will lift pay cap for ‘overworked’ NHS staffBoris Johnson to make first major appearance of campaignSign up for the Snap, our daily election email – and read today’s 2.26pm BSTThe Liberal Democrats have barred former Bradford East MP David Ward from standing again for the party, after Tim Farron said his comments about Jews h
  
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• Nurses: what are your experiences of NHS bursaries? | Rachel Obordo

  26-04-2017 15:10
  
  Labour has promised a pay rise to NHS workers and to bring back bursaries. We want to hear from readers about training with and without financial aid“Overworked” NHS staff will get a pay rise if Labour wins the general election. The party is also promising the return of bursaries and the abolition of tuition fees planned to be introduced in August for students on nursing and midwifery courses. Applications to British universities have fallen by 23% for these courses, with some studen
  
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