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• DIY kit given to patients for bowel cancer tests

  24-06-2017 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The kit is being issued by GPs to NHS patients suffering lower abdominal pain and bleeding, after trials found the test was so accurate that it ‘ruled out’ tumours in more than 95 per cent of cases.
  
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• HEALTH NOTES: Ten reasons you don't feel like eating 

  24-06-2017 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There are many reasons why you may not feel up to eating. The Mail on Sunday reports ten examples, including it could be your thyroid, it's more than 'the blues' and you are really stressed.
  
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• HEALTH NOTES: Paul's secret ingredient...nunchucks

  24-06-2017 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It's hard work pummelling dough – but Bake Off star Paul Hollywood is rising to the challenge – by training with nunchucks, a martial-arts weapon made up of two sticks connected by a short rope or chain.
  
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• Geko 'wristwatch' may help patients with broken bones

  24-06-2017 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The neuromuscular electro-stimulation device, known as the Geko, is able to reduce the swelling which interferes with wound-healing and increases complications that cause delays in operations.
  
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• ‘Home is where you feel safe. And I don’t feel safe in my flat any more’

  24-06-2017 22:30
  
  Residents who fled the Grenfell Tower area describe memories that haunt them – and fears that the real toll may never be knownThomassina Hessel used to love the view from her studio flat on the Lancaster West estate, of gardens set against the backdrop of Grenfell Tower. Now she sees only a blackened tomb, 24 storeys of burnt-out homes that stir up memories of the terrible fire – and fears for her three-year-old son’s future.There is no hot water or gas on the estate more than
  
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• After Grenfell: ‘Home is where you feel safe. And I don’t feel safe in my flat any more’

  24-06-2017 22:30
  
  Residents who fled the Grenfell Tower area describe memories that haunt them – and fears that the real toll may never be knownThomassina Hessel used to love the view from her studio flat on the Lancaster West estate, of gardens set against the backdrop of Grenfell Tower. Now she sees only a blackened tomb, 24 storeys of burnt-out homes that stir up memories of the terrible fire – and fears for her three-year-old son’s future.There is no hot water or gas on the estate more than
  
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• Camden officials evacuate residents from fire-trap tower blocks

  24-06-2017 21:20
  
  Residents in properties with the same cladding at Grenfell Tower are being told to leave their homes so the work can take place. Some are refusing to goEver since the horror of the Grenfell Tower fire less than five miles away, Artan Moallim has barely slept a wink in the 16th-floor, one-bedroom Camden apartment he, his wife and three young daughters call home.Yet they were still unprepared for the knock on their door at 2am on Saturday morning ahead of the evacuation of thousands of people from
  
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• A health issue, not a crime: it's time to scrap outdated abortion laws | Caroline de Costa, Heather Douglas

  24-06-2017 21:00
  
  Archaic abortion laws are still oppressing women in Australia. We should finally step up to medical developments and social expectationsOn Wednesday the Queensland law reform commission (QLRC) received a reference to consider how Queensland should amend laws relating to termination of pregnancy and remove abortion offences from the criminal code. The QLRC has 12 months to report on how to repeal these archaic Queensland laws dating back to 1861.1861 was a long time ago – 156 years. It saw
  
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• Gal Gadot’s Husband Just Gave His Wife Props In The Sweetest Way

  24-06-2017 19:42
  
  Yaron Varsano is making our hearts melt.
  
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• The Internet Is Going Nuts Over This Champion Deadlifter

  24-06-2017 18:53
  
  She nails a dead lift, squat and bench press in ways we could only dream of doing
  
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• Man Hospitalized After Inserting THIS Into His Penis

  24-06-2017 17:00
  
  It sounds very, very painful.
  
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• Will NHS approve cancer drug which avoids chemotherapy?

  24-06-2017 12:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patients treated with immunotherapy enjoyed a vastly improved quality of life, suffering fewer side effects such as pain and loss of appetite, but the drugs were rejected for NHS funding (file photo).
  
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• 'My collarbone pointed out of my skin': a Briton and an American talk healthcare

  24-06-2017 12:00
  
  What’s the difference between the healthcare systems in the United States and Britain, and what’s it like to move to America and adapt to a different system? Amanda Holpuch: Hello Adam, I’ll start this off: how long have you lived in the United States?Related: These are the people at the mercy of Trump's healthcare billRelated: Obama attacks Republican health bill as 'massive transfer of wealth' to the richContinue reading...
  
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• ‘It's a superpower’: meet the empaths paid to read your mind

  24-06-2017 12:00
  
  They feel your pain as if it were their own – and charge you £200 an hour to do so. Why has empathy become such a prized commodity?It is late on Friday at Piper’s diner in Koreatown, Los Angeles. David Sauvage, a slight 36-year-old man with an arresting stare, is preparing to empathise with me. “These aren’t ideal circumstances, but that’s OK,” he says. A few night owls busy themselves with eggs and tacos; a waiter carries a tray of drinks between booths
  
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• Health inspectors used to be proactive - now all we do is react once disaster hits

  24-06-2017 11:11
  
  From food poisoning to fire safety, we strive to keep people away from danger, before they know it is there. But cuts have limited our prevention workI work in local government as an environmental health officer, but you probably don’t know staff like me exist until incidences occur where you need us.It might be food poisoning from that dodgy kebab shop, a serious accident in the workplace or a broken boiler that your landlord won’t fix. We intervene on a whole range of public health
  
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• ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober

  24-06-2017 11:00
  
  Tanya Gold used drink to drown out the destructive voice inside her head. Will she ever fully recover?It is easy to get morphine in University College hospital, London, if you are a good liar. It hurts, you tell the midwife, although you can’t feel anything, being so high on morphine already that someone could hit you with a sledgehammer and you would only laugh: what else you got? It was close to midnight on 13 August 2013, and I was on medical-grade opiates; nothing else can make you for
  
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• Theresa May should spend any political capital she has left on mental health

  24-06-2017 10:30
  
  Over half a million young people might miss out on mental health support. Reform would be a worthwhile legacy“I’ve contemplated killing myself a few times.” Sensing the pause in my throat the 19-year-old young man quickly followed: “But obviously I didn’t, I self-harmed instead. It was the only way they’d take me seriously.” This young man went on to explain to me how, from an early age, his parents had suspected he was autistic but hadn’t taken hi
  
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• Midge Ure and Tony Hadley back Kenny Thomas daughter appeal

  24-06-2017 10:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Stars including Midge Ure, Kim Wilde and Tony Hadley supported singer Kenny Thomas' appeal.
  
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• UK's first heart pump targets 2018 clinical trial

  24-06-2017 07:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Clinical trials are due to begin in late 2018 with the aim of a full rollout two years later.
  
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• Man up, guys – you’re a snip away from being heroes

  24-06-2017 07:45
  
  I delayed getting my vasectomy for two years. This is typical of the way men strive to make women responsible for contraceptionIn the four years since my daughter was born it has become a regular and uncomfortable occurrence that my wife and I wait nervously for proof that we haven’t been caught out by our relaxed attitude to contraception. So I decided to put an end to it once and for all by having the snip. I made the decision some time ago, my wife and I having agreed that we didn&rsquo
  
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• Study says evaluating someone based looks is pointless 

  24-06-2017 02:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of Kansas has found people’s perceptions of dates’ attractiveness goes up after they have a face-to-face interaction - but only for those who were rated mid to low attractiveness.
  
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• DR MAX: Better than any pill, a hospital visit from a pet 

  24-06-2017 02:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Recently published research found that each year thousands of dogs are destroyed because their owners go into care homes. More than 100,000 have to be rehomed.
  
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• Running may help guard against Alzheimer's disease

  24-06-2017 01:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Exercise, brain training and controlling one's blood pressure may help stave off mental decline and Alzheimer's disease in aging people, a new US report suggests.
  
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• Children can have prejudice towards their overweight peers

  24-06-2017 01:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Children as young as nine years old are more likely to be bias towards fat children, which can make these stigmatized children put on even more weight, according to Duke University researchers.
  
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• Conjoined twins from Kenya separated by 50 surgeons

  24-06-2017 01:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Kenyan twins, who were conjoined at the lower back and shared a spinal cord, rectum, anus, some muscles, tissues and skin, were successfully separated in a surgery that involved splitting the spine.
  
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