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• Babies recognise their mother's touch even before birth

  29-04-2017 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Unborn infants have been recorded reaching out to touch the wall of the uterus in response to their mother caressing her bump during pregnancy in a study by the University of Dundee.
  
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• Could this urine test save thousands of lives?

  29-04-2017 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The innovative technology, created by Leicester University researchers, works like a pregnancy test - but for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  
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• Nurses will see their pay ‘cut by 12% over a decade’

  29-04-2017 17:32
  
  Impact of wage restraints could lead to staffing shortfall of 42,000, says Health Foundation reportNHS workers will have had their pay cut by 12% by the end of the decade because of a government-imposed wage restraint that is now exacerbating chronic understaffing, new research reveals.The 625,000 health service staff who earn at least £22,000 will have seen their income fall by 12% between 2010-11 and 2020-21 as a result of years of below-inflation 0% and 1% pay rises eroding their spendi
  
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• Breast surgeon Ian Paterson case: 'Hundreds' of other victims

  29-04-2017 10:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Surgeon Ian Paterson was convicted of intentionally wounding patients with unnecessary operations.
  
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• Hundreds of private patients seek compensation from rogue surgeon

  29-04-2017 10:13
  
  Around 350 patients who underwent treatment privately take civil action against Ian Paterson, who carried out needless breast operationsHundreds of private patients of a surgeon convicted of carrying out needless breast operations are seeking compensation after nearly £18m worth of claims were made against the NHS.Ian Paterson, 59, was convicted on Friday of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding against 10 patients, upon whom he conducted “extensive,
  
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• Hair loss CURE - expert reveals WHAT causes baldness and if home remedies really work

  29-04-2017 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HAIR loss, also known as balding or alopecia affects thousands of men each year - and, according to the NHS around half will suffer before they reach the age of fifty.
  
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• Damage done to patients after heart attack could be REPAIRED with this new jab

  29-04-2017 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A PIONEERING new jab has repaired the damage done to patients who suffered a heart attack.
  
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• Our twins were born two years apart

  29-04-2017 07:15
  
  Although my children were conceived through IVF at the same time, the embryo that became my son was frozen for two years before being implanted. How will their birth order affect them?Our son and daughter were conceived at the same time, while we were in the cafe at Ikea Croydon (a convenient place for brunch after an early-morning egg-retrieval operation). But while our fertility clinic implanted our little girl into my womb three days later, our little boy went into their freezer for two years
  
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• How childhood stress can knock 20 years off your life

  29-04-2017 07:00
  
  Heart disease, depression, life expectancy. New research claims that stress exerts a far heavier physical toll than previously understood. The film-maker James Redford talks about how toxic stress can be a killerThere is a scene in James Redford’s new film, Resilience, in which a paediatrician cites a parental misdeed so outmoded as to seem bizarre. “Parents used to smoke in the car with kids in the back and the windows rolled up,” she says, incredulous. How long ago those days
  
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• How bad parenting can knock 20 years off your life

  29-04-2017 07:00
  
  Heart disease, depression, life expectancy. New research claims that stress exerts a far heavier physical toll than previously understood. The film-maker James Redford talks about how childhood stress can be a killerThere is a scene in James Redford’s new film, Resilience, in which a paediatrician cites a parental misdeed so outmoded as to seem bizarre. “Parents used to smoke in the car with kids in the back and the windows rolled up,” she says, incredulous. How long ago those
  
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• Why self obsessed students should do care work 

  29-04-2017 02:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The precious, wan, self-obsessed graduates who abound these days need to learn a bit about the real world, writes Dr Max.
  
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• 'I don't feel blessed'

  29-04-2017 02:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Parents of disabled children are often positive about the situation - but one mother says her children's autism has left her with "dark thoughts".
  
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• Yoga could ease PMT symptoms says King's College London

  29-04-2017 01:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The review, conducted at King’s College London, found every relevant study of yoga over 20 years demonstrated improved PMT, and irregular and painful periods in women aged 45 and under.
  
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• Three vloggers talk directly to their mental illnesses.

  29-04-2017 01:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three vloggers are speaking directly to their mental illnesses.
  
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• Smartphone 'orders' body to treat diabetes

  29-04-2017 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A fusion of biology and technology is an "exciting glimpse" of medicine's future, scientists say.
  
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• Texas man catches infection showering barefoot at gym  

  29-04-2017 00:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING VERY GRAPHIC CONTENT: A Texas man says he caught a deadly flesh-eating infection after showering barefoot at the gym, that needed grafts from fish scales.
  
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• Blake Lively's PT says better sleep can shave off weight

  29-04-2017 00:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fitness instructor Don Saladino, trainer to supercouple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, reveals his best exercise and nutrition tips - and how getting extra sleep can aid weight loss.
  
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