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• 9 Things Waxers Want You To Know, But Will Never Tell You

  03-05-2017 23:49
  
  They know more about your personal life than you think...
  
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• ​This Is Why You Should NEVER Buy Emergency Contraception On Amazon

  03-05-2017 23:11
  
  ​Some things are too good to be true.
  
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• If You Can Check Off These 4 Boxes, You're Ready To Find Love

  03-05-2017 22:45
  
  Time to start dating like a grown-ass woman.
  
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• Cauliflower is the new kale says nutritionists

  03-05-2017 22:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Of course, the joys of this lumpy vegetable are not news to nutritionists, who use it in everything, from pizza to mash to puddings. But now fad-loving chefs are latching on to it as their star.
  
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• Hope for families of kids with Batten disease

  03-05-2017 22:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After years of waiting, a landmark treatment for Batten disease, a rare brain disorder that kills children, was approved by the FDA on Thursday.
  
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• Meet 3 Of The Most Popular Weight-Loss Salads On Pinterest

  03-05-2017 21:50
  
  But will they really help you lose weight? We asked an R.D.
  
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• Meet 3 Of The Most Popular Salads On Pinterest That Can Help You Lose Weight

  03-05-2017 21:50
  
  But will they really help you lose weight? We asked an R.D.
  
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• 8 Ways To Make Your Abs Pop Without Doing Crunches

  03-05-2017 21:40
  
  This routine will transform your six-pack.
  
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• Bionic hand 'sees and grabs' objects automatically

  03-05-2017 21:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The hand is programmed to react within milliseconds and perform four different "grasps".
  
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• Why Multitasking Is a Bad Idea

  03-05-2017 20:49
  
  This article originally appeared on Fortune.com. Remembering every word of Abraham Lincoln’s historic Gettysburg Address is difficult. It’s even more challenging when you are dealing with distractions.[brightcove:5419642989001 default]At Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego on Tuesday, Time Inc.’s chief content officer and Fortune president Alan Murray tried to write the famous Civil War speech by memory while being interviewed on the phone by Clevelan
  
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• ​The Best Eyeshadow Palette For You, Based On Your Eye Color

  03-05-2017 20:48
  
  ​*Sprints to Sephora*
  
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• This Pre-Wedding Meal Plan Will Help You De-Bloat And Get Your Glow On

  03-05-2017 20:42
  
  It's nutritionist-approved.
  
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• NHS annual budget rises under Tories are fraction of past increases – IFS

  03-05-2017 20:39
  
  Yearly funding rises of 1.3% between 2009-10 and 2015-16 are less than one-third of levels health service has had over 60 yearsThe annual increases in the NHS budget since 2009 have been less than one-third of the average yearly funding rise the health service has had over the past 60 years, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Public spending on health across the UK went up by 1.3% a year between 2009-10, Labour’s last year in power, and 2015-16, the first year of David Cameron&
  
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• Hospital waiting lists 'will rise above 5 million' as targets slide

  03-05-2017 20:39
  
  Relaxation of 18-week target could mean twice as many people waiting longer for non-essential operations, leaked document reveals
  The number of people in England forced to wait more than 18 weeks for a non-urgent operation could more than double as a result of the NHS’s decision to relax the obligation on hospitals to treat 92% of them in that time, a leaked document has revealed.
  The possibility of the backlog rising from 370,000 in February this year to around 800,000 by March 2019 is on
  
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• 6 Facts About Surrogacy Every Woman Should Know

  03-05-2017 20:31
  
  It's a major part of the plotline in Hulu's new series "The Handmaid's Tale"—but here's what it's like IRL.
  
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• Bed-bound woman bitten by tick to travel to US for 'cure'

  03-05-2017 19:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Emma Horlock, 42, from Liverpool has raised £25,000 to travel to America in the hope antibiotics will cure her from Lyme disease. Says the condition has stopped her having children.
  
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• Most breast cancer patients unaware of reconstruction woes

  03-05-2017 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study conducted by Ohio State University's cancer center found 57 percent of patients had no idea about neither the various options nor the side effects before embarking on the journey.
  
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• Baby boomers warned over alcohol intake as hospital admissions soar

  03-05-2017 19:04
  
  Alcohol was the primary or secondary issue in an estimated 1.1m admissions in 2015/16, up 64% from a decade agoAlcohol-related hospital admissions in England have increased by 64% in a decade and are at their highest ever level, prompting experts to warn that baby boomers are continuing to risk their health through frequent and excessive drinking.
  There were an estimated 1.1m admissions where alcohol was the primary or secondary issue in 2015/16, compared with 670,000 in 2005/06, according to NH
  
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• 'I'll Never Vent To A Friend About My Relationship Again—Here's Why'

  03-05-2017 18:53
  
  Plus, we asked an expert to explain why this behavior can be so destructive.
  
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• More than one-third of men are lonely says RVS

  03-05-2017 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Going through a break up, being unemployed and the death of a family member are the causes in 17 per cent of British men. Over 25 per cent of men aged 65 to 69 blame retirement.
  
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• Bionic hand that 'sees' objects and grips is revealed 

  03-05-2017 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A revolutionary bionic hand that 'sees' objects and instantly decides what kind of grip to adopt has been developed by scientists from Newcastle University.
  
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• Findings on a heart rate app may not be accurate

  03-05-2017 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Many readings are inaccurate and pose a significant health threat to users if they believe them to be true, cardiologists at the Heart Clinic Zurich, in Switzerland, warn.
  
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• Treat PARENTS to overcome disruptive children

  03-05-2017 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Atlanta, Georgia-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, analysed 64 studies that covered more than 20 therapeutic approaches in nearly as many years.
  
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• 7 Surprising Causes Of Divorce That No One Ever Talks About

  03-05-2017 17:53
  
  If you never fight about the dishes anymore, that might be a bad sign.
  
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• Blacks more likely to die younger than whites

  03-05-2017 17:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite significant gains made in life expectancy within the black community, African-Americans are still expected to die four years earlier than white people.
  
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• Brad Pitt Is Speaking Out About His Divorce—Here's What You Need To Know

  03-05-2017 17:26
  
  "I was really on my back and chained to a system when Child Services was called."
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel reveals the heartlessness of healthcare in America | Arwa Mahdawi

  03-05-2017 17:22
  
  The late night host’s emotional appeal about his son’s heart condition – which urged Americans to support Obamacare – struck a raw nerveI don’t know why everyone in America is so obsessed with health care reform and why it causes endless debate. It seems obvious that there is a very simple and very fair solution to this endless reform rigmarole: let poor people die. This may sound sort of harsh, but bear with me. I didn’t arrive at this conclusion without a ri
  
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• What can sci-fi teach us about the future of health? | Ara Darzi

  03-05-2017 17:19
  
  We need innovative thinking in healthcare now more than ever – so we’re asking for ideas from writers whose work is all about escaping the limitations of the pastIn State of Wonder, the American writer Ann Patchett imagined the discovery made by a charismatic but despotic professor, Dr Annick Swenson, who travelled deep into the Amazon basin and found a tribe in which the women went on bearing children until the end of their lives. While their bodies aged as normal, their reproductiv
  
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• Here's How You Can Tame Your Distracted Mind

  03-05-2017 17:19
  
  This article originally appeared on Fortune.com. How can you tame your distracted mind?It’s not easy these days, given that many of us have a smartphone—if not smartphones, plural—and the ability to be accessible, connected, and theoretically productive around-the-clock. According to Adam Gazzaley, a professor in neurology, physiology and psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco—and the author of The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech Worl
  
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• Five beliefs that are making your anxiety worse

  03-05-2017 16:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Irish well-being author Caroline Foran gives her advice based on her own experience on how to diminish anxiety.It's common to think it as a sign of weakness but it's a strength, she says.
  
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• THIS Is The One Parenting Technique Ivanka Trump Swears By

  03-05-2017 16:50
  
  Plus, why some of the tips she offers up in her new book are stirring up controversy.
  
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• The controversy over statins has revealed something: the nocebo effect is real | Ann Robinson

  03-05-2017 16:31
  
  Just as placebos can have a positive effect, expectation of side-effects can have a negative one. That’s why proper doctor-patient communication is so vitalStatins are back in the news; a new study shows that media-fuelled controversy among health experts has dented public confidence in the cholesterol-lowering drugs that prevent 80,000 heart attacks and strokes every year in the UK. The benefits far outweigh the harm from rare side-effects, according to a review of the evidence in the Lan
  
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• 10 High-Fat Foods You Should Be Eating More Of, According To Nutritionists

  03-05-2017 16:30
  
  Bring on the bacon and egg yolks!
  
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• 'Why I Was Afraid To Use Gym Locker Rooms During My Gender Transition'

  03-05-2017 16:04
  
  "Over the first year of my transition, I put back on 30 pounds."
  
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• Behind the latest IVF furore lies untold human suffering | Jessica Hepburn

  03-05-2017 15:52
  
  Allegations that women are selling their eggs in exchange for fertility treatment show how murky things become when money and the desperation for a baby intersect
  The latest furore to hit the fertility industry exposes what a murky, complicated business it is. A number of the UK’s private clinics have been accused of misleading desperate, cash-strapped fertility patients into donating their own eggs for other people’s treatment. Health secretary Jeremy Hunt said the findings were &ld
  
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• Behind the latest fertility-treatment furore lies untold human suffering | Jessica Hepburn

  03-05-2017 15:52
  
  Allegations that women are selling their eggs in exchange for IVF show how murky things become when money and the desperation for a baby intersect
  The latest furore to hit the fertility industry exposes what a murky, complicated business it is. A number of the UK’s private clinics have been accused of misleading desperate, cash-strapped fertility patients into donating their own eggs for other people’s treatment. Health secretary Jeremy Hunt said the findings were “serious and
  
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• Hospital admissions for alcohol-related illnesses increase

  03-05-2017 15:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There were at least 339,280 hospital admissions for alcohol-related illnesses in 2016, a 22 per cent rise from the 277,060 recorded in 2006, shocking figures collated by NHS Digital show.
  
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• Encouraging elderly to play Wii could prevent dementia

  03-05-2017 15:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British scientists have discovered pensioners boosted their brain power by playing active video games. They recommend just a quarter of an hour a day, three times a week to stay sharp in old age.
  
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• What It’s REALLY Like To Have A 10-Year-Old Cyst Removed

  03-05-2017 15:30
  
  "At first I thought it was a pimple."
  
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• Daily Mail exposes cash-for-eggs IVF clinics scheme

  03-05-2017 14:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is open day at the Herts & Essex Fertility Centre, and half a dozen smiling nurses in blue uniforms are offering advice to anxious prospective patients.
  
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• Has Prince Harry turned to CAVIAR pills to cure baldness?

  03-05-2017 14:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Harry, 32, shows signs of hair thinning, just like his balding brother and father.
  The royal uses Omega-3 supplements made with caviar oil, which are said to promote hair growth.
  
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• Young adults less likely to drink, official figures show

  03-05-2017 13:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The proportion of adults who drink alcohol on a weekly basis is at its lowest since figures began in 2005, official data from around 7,700 British adults suggests.
  
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• Female shop mannequins are 'medically unhealthy' and 'unrealistic'

  03-05-2017 12:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The bodies of female shop mannequins are "unrealistic", a new study suggests, and humans that size would be "considered medically unhealthy".
  
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• Thai girl sweats blood every time she gets a headache

  03-05-2017 12:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Phakamad Sangchai , 7, from Nongkghai, Thailand, started profusely bleeding almost six months ago. Despite treatment, her baffling condition continues, leaving her family desperate for help.
  
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• Husband married for 30 YEARS has no idea who his wife is

  03-05-2017 11:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gary Newman. 59, from Hereford, who is married to Christine, was struck down with encephalitis - a rare but serious condition where the brain becomes inflamed - after being bitten by a fly.
  
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• Painful periods are a CLUE to what labour will be like

  03-05-2017 11:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australian GP Dr Dasha Fielder has revealed the level of discomfort you feel from periods can tell you what to expect from child birth. says initial stages of labour are very similar to periods.
  
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• Why Dr Michael Mosley started the BBC Sleep Challenge

  03-05-2017 11:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Can eating two kiwi fruit an hour before bed really help you get enough sleep?
  
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• Mother died after doctors didn't believe she had cancer

  03-05-2017 11:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Melanie Bray first found a lump when she was 27 and went to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro twice. But during both appointments, she was told the symptoms could not be down to cancer.
  
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• Zoe Ball suggests having more sex during menopause

  03-05-2017 10:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zoe Ball, 46, has now vowed to ‘have more sex’ in the wake of entering menopause, describing it as her ‘last hurrah’.
  
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• Woman, 64, nearly dies after making poppy tea

  03-05-2017 09:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Having learnt the tea-making technique while she lived in Afghanistan, the unnamed patient decided to adopt the same practiceby handpicking fresh opium buds from a poppy farm in Swindon.
  
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