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• Hate The Gym But Want To Lose 10 Pounds? Try This Simple At-Home Workout

  01-05-2017 23:59
  
  You don't need a gym to torch fat.
  
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• Should patients be prosecuted for using cannabis?

  01-05-2017 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Marijuana is a substance all too readily associated with university students. But now it’s been announced that Oxford University, no less, is planning to develop cannabis-based products.
  
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• Critics slam 'rip off' 50p-a-minute charge to call patients' hospital phones

  01-05-2017 23:41
  
  Hospedia, who run bedside TV and phone services in NHS hospitals, connect calls via 070 numbers and include pre-recorded message of 70 secondsRelatives who call patients in hospital are still being forced to pay “rip off” charges of 50p a minute despite a promised clampdown on the issue.
  The firm Hospedia, which runs bedside TV and phone services in NHS hospitals and made £21.2m in revenue last year, makes people call loved ones via costly 070 numbers. The charges vary from hos
  
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• AHA study finds 1 in 3 have suffered a 'mini stroke'

  01-05-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A transient ischemic attack (or, TIA) involves a temporary lack of blood flow to the brain, which causes momentary dizziness, confusion, tingling, and numbness in the arms.
  
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• The 5 Worst Sex Positions Ever

  01-05-2017 23:29
  
  Plus, how to make them WAY more enjoyable.
  
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• Surgery that could cure shaky hands

  01-05-2017 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A million Britons suffer from uncontrollable shaking. Selwyn Lucas, 53, a painter and decorator from St Austell, Cornwall, talks about undergoing a pioneering treatment.
  
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• Mother forced to spend £4,500 to remove mesh implants

  01-05-2017 23:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Within days of an operation to insert a mesh support to improve her bladder function after childbirth, Kimberley Vallis, from Yate, near Bristol, knew something was very wrong.
  
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• The Best Swimsuit For You, According To Your Personality

  01-05-2017 23:25
  
  Are you a lounger or always on-the-go?
  
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• Learn to read minds by reading your own pulse

  01-05-2017 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research has found that those who are better at perceiving their own heartbeat are also more able to judge the emotional state of others.
  
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• Babies born to fathers under 25 'at higher risk of autism'

  01-05-2017 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Interestingly, scientists at Mount Sinai in New York found these children tend to be more advanced than their peers in infancy and early childhood. However, by adolescence they were lagging behind the rest.
  
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• Check Out The $20 Face Mask This Celeb Is Using To Get Ready For The Met Gala

  01-05-2017 22:43
  
  Get that red carpet look without leaving the house.
  
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• 3 Simple Weekend Tweaks That Will Make Mondays Way Easier

  01-05-2017 22:22
  
  It's all about mindfulness.
  
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• ​How Much Cardio Do You Need To Do To Lose Weight?

  01-05-2017 22:17
  
  Find out if you're doing as much as you should be.
  
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• Could some heavy smokers be IMMUNE to smoking-related heart disease?

  01-05-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SOME heavy smokers can be immune to smoking-related heart disease, new research shows.
  
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• Triplets have first-ever operation to fix skull condition

  01-05-2017 21:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jackson, Hunter and Kaden Howard, of New York, were born in October with craniosynostosis, meaning parts of their skulls fused, and they were all born with misshapen heads.
  
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• The Little Girl Who Was Scalped On A Carnival Ride Is Talking About Her Recovery

  01-05-2017 21:50
  
  She's had two head surgeries, three skin grafts, one eye surgery, and 28 blood transfusions.
  
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• 25 Gorgeous Hikes You Have to Do in Your Lifetime

  01-05-2017 21:37
  
  Allow us to introduce you to your hiking bucket list
  
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• The Stair-Stepper Workout That Will Torch Major Cals In 20 Minutes

  01-05-2017 21:26
  
  That includes the warmup.
  
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• 5 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Transgender People

  01-05-2017 21:07
  
  An estimated 1.4 million adults in the United States identify as transgender, according to recent data from The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. Even if you don’t personally know someone who is transgender, there's much greater awareness for gender identity than there used to be, thanks in part to public figures like Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner, and Jazz Jennings from the TLC reality show I Am Jazz. But still, many misconceptions about what i
  
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• 'I Took 500 Barre Classes—And It Totally Changed My Life'

  01-05-2017 21:01
  
  "I weigh the same—but I don't look the same."
  
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• Your May 2017 Horoscope: Start Dreaming Big

  01-05-2017 20:54
  
  It's time to move onward and upward.
  
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• Alzheimer's patients suffer 'silent seizures'

  01-05-2017 20:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors at the Baylor College of Medicine say they were able to observe the dysfunctional patterns in two patients - after mouse models - and that normal brain scans would not be able to detect them.
  
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• Talented teenage footballer collapses and dies

  01-05-2017 20:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ben Walker, 15, fell on the pitch in front of horrified teammates and onlookers as his side Thrapston Town Juniors FC, which is based in Kettering, were playing on Friday.
  
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• Audibility problems on stage and screen | Letters

  01-05-2017 20:11
  
  The main problem is TV presenters’ poor articulation, argues Alan HuntingtonIn her letter (29 April), Mary McKeown refers to “hearing” and “audibility”. Certainly, audibility is an essential precursor to comprehension but, on radio and television, a simple remedy is to turn up the volume. It’s careless articulation that constitutes the main problem. Whole words are frequently not articulated with requisite precision. The majority of the applauded weather prese
  
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• Baby Born with Four Legs, Two Spines Reunited with Family After Surgery to Remove Her 'Parasitic Conjoined Twin'

  01-05-2017 19:55
  
  An 11-month-old baby has returned home to her family in Africa after having two extra legs and a spine from her “parasitic conjoined twin” removed by surgeons at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Illinois, according to a video released by the hospital. Her mother, father and three sisters were at the Abidjan airport on April 20 to greet her with open arms, eager to see the toddler in person for the first time since her excess limbs were surgically removed.&ldq
  
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• Jessica Chastain Reveals She Was Once ‘Spanked’ On-Set

  01-05-2017 19:24
  
  "In their mind it was completely normal."
  
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• Trump set to hand key family planning role to anti-contraception advocate

  01-05-2017 18:56
  
  Law professor Teresa Manning once claimed ‘contraception doesn’t work’Planned Parenthood says Manning ‘promotes myths about birth control’Donald Trump has reportedly appointed to a position overseeing the US’s family planning safety net a law professor who once stated that “contraception doesn’t work” and “family planning is something that occurs between a husband and a wife and God, and it doesn’t really involve the federal gover
  
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• Are YOU blood type A? You're at risk of a heart attack

  01-05-2017 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings from the University Medical Center in Groningen are worrying, considering people are unable to do anything about their blood group as it is based purely on genetics.
  
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• The 2 Questions You MUST Ask If You Want Your Relationship To Last

  01-05-2017 17:30
  
  Happy couples swear by this.
  
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• Too MUCH sunscreen 'is making us vitamin D deficient'

  01-05-2017 17:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The finding, by California's Touro University, is a staggering claim as the nation battles rising rates of melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer.
  
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• Fasting diets like 5:2 no better than traditional diets

  01-05-2017 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Celebrities like Beyonce have praised the results of diets which sees slimmers eat just 500 calories every other day, while eating normally on the other days. But is it worth it? A new US study says: no.
  
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• 8 Reasons Your Period Is Lighter Than Usual

  01-05-2017 17:04
  
  You might be pregnant...
  
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• 'I Tried To Stop Saying "I'm Sorry" For A Week—Here's What Happened'

  01-05-2017 17:03
  
  "A quick search of my inbox reveals that the word 'sorry' appeared in my emails 150 times in March."
  
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• 9 Ways Stress Messes With Your Body

  01-05-2017 16:36
  
  The side effects of stress might be scarier than whatever you're worried about.
  
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• Why won’t​ ​prudish Brits​ ​recognise the bidet’s brilliance?

  01-05-2017 16:21
  
  This great innovation of bathroom hygiene has, like so many European favourites, fallen out of favour. This is a bum dealLike many other links to Europe, bidets have almost died out here. What a pity. A brave campaign was launched to save them by the Council of British Sanitary Pottery Manufacturers in 1963, but failed. We were restrained by British prudery, suggested the council, “depriving the country of the most hygienic washing appliance of them all”.What’s the matter with
  
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• Exactly How To Have Sex On Top Of A Table

  01-05-2017 16:15
  
  We actually asked a carpenter.
  
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• Alzheimer's disease: Doctors detect 'silent seizures' that mark onset

  01-05-2017 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DOCTORS have detected "silent seizures" that mark the onset of Alzheimer's disease in a breakthrough study that could lead to new treatments for millions of patients.
  
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• The five foods you should ALWAYS eat before a workout

  01-05-2017 15:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Weight Watchers magazine have put together a list of the best workout foods to eat if you're training regularly to stay healthy and lose weight. They include energy-boosting quinoa.
  
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• Footage shows the moment a boy takes his first steps

  01-05-2017 15:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tanishq Gurjar, eight, from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, was born with twisted legs and weighed just 4lbs due to arthrogryposis multiplex congenita.
  
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• The government must not force me and other disabled people out of our homes | Tessa Bolt

  01-05-2017 15:06
  
  Any alterations to the supported housing rules that force disabled people to either live with family or in an institution would be a huge step backwardsI have Down’s syndrome and I live in supported housing. Today a parliamentary select committee has put out a report on the government’s planned changes for supported housing that could force people such as me with a learning disability out of our homes.Last year the government said it wanted to make changes to funding for supported ho
  
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• Boy, 8, whose face has been distorted by giant tumours

  01-05-2017 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amare Stover, from Decatur, Alabama, was born with neurofibromatosis type one - a genetic disorder that causes tumors to develop all over his body.
  
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• Emotional exhaustion can boost long-term happiness

  01-05-2017 13:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of East Anglia have found that dealing with workplace stress as individuals can be more beneficial to long term happiness than the impact of managerial support.
  
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• Ex-soldier dies after spending 54 years at same hospital

  01-05-2017 12:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James Morris broke his thigh bone in 1962. Surgery to repair the damage went wrong and he was moved to Wester Moffat Hospital, near Glasgow, where he spent the next 54 years.
  
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• 'Oldest human' dies in Indonesia 'aged 146'

  01-05-2017 12:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  His documents say Mbah Ghoto was born in 1870 - which would make him the longest living human ever.
  
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• Millions of Brits could LOSE their eyesight because they refuse to do THIS

  01-05-2017 12:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ALMOST 10 million Brits could lose their eyesight - by shunning regular eye tests.
  
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• Mother hoping for miracle to separate her conjoined twins

  01-05-2017 11:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zainab Bibi, 35, gave birth to Safa and Marva at a hospital in Peshawar in January this year. Doctors at the Government-run facility are hopeful that a surgery to detach the pair could be successful.
  
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• Dying at home might sound preferable. But I’ve seen the reality | Ranjana Srivastava

  01-05-2017 11:50
  
  Just 1% of terminally ill patients want to die in hospital, and yet more than a third do so – with good reason“He is terminally ill, came in septic and they decided to resuscitate because there were no other directions,” says my intern. Related: Thousands of cancer patients denied wish to die at homeRelated: A guide to dying could give us a better life | Joanna Moorhead Continue reading...
  
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• Brain surgery could be cut to 2 MINUTES thanks to drill

  01-05-2017 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The software, developed by scientists at the University of Utah, lets the surgeon choose the optimum path from point A to point B and avoids nerves, major veins and arteries.
  
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• SLEEP WARNING: Weekend lie-ins 'are BAD for the brain'

  01-05-2017 10:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CATCHING up on sleep with long lie-ins at the weekend is bad for the brain, a study claims.
  
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• Woman was addicted to sugar reveals how she lost 40 KILOS

  01-05-2017 10:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Holly Evelyn, 26, from Brisbane, spent 25 years of her life addicted to sugar. Here, she tells FEMAIL how she broke the cycle and went from 105 kilograms to just 66 kilos today.
  
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