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• Older workers hide deafness from employers as most over-55s notice deterioration

  25-06-2017 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AGEING workers are struggling to cope rather than admit to going deaf.
  
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• Why This Woman Is Fighting For Her Right To Be Topless

  25-06-2017 23:04
  
  She wants equality of the sexes on the beaches of Maryland.
  
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• The little girl who had 1,000 fits in her first six weeks

  25-06-2017 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Baby Penny Mylchreest endured a staggering 1,000 epileptic fits in the first six weeks of her life - but now three years on she is seizure-free and looking forward to starting primary school next year.
  
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• How a woman with cystic fibrosis defied expectations

  25-06-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Janka Penther was born with cystic fibrosis (CF), a crippling genetic condition, and doctors had told her she wouldn't live past 21 years old. When she hit 30, she was planning her own funeral.
  
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• This 5-Months Pregnant Olympic Runner Is A Real-Life Wonder Woman

  25-06-2017 21:23
  
  For the second time Alysia Montaño amazes people with her ability to race while pregnant.
  
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• UK heart disease deaths fall by over 20% since indoor smoking ban

  25-06-2017 19:29
  
  Smokers aged 35 and above are less likely to die from heart attacks since indoor venues went smoke-free 10 years agoDeaths from heart disease and strokes caused by smoking have fallen dramatically since lighting up in pubs, restaurants and other enclosed public places in England was banned 10 years ago.New figures have shown that the number of smokers aged 35 and over dying from heart attacks and other cardiac conditions has dropped by over 20% since 2007 while fatalities from a stroke are almos
  
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• Stourbridge mother left wheelchair-bound after an orgasm

  25-06-2017 16:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lucinda Allen, 38, from Stourbridge, regularly experienced sharp headaches after climaxing and five years ago the pain turned out to be a brain haemmorrhage.
  
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• Dying patients should be allowed to go on a final holiday

  25-06-2017 15:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Marcel Levi, a doctor and chief executive of University College Hospitals, warned against wasting money by treating patients at the end of their lives.
  
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• Figures reveal nearly half of young people are overweight

  25-06-2017 13:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nearly three million 16- to 24-year-olds weigh too much – a million more than two decades ago, the statistics reveal. Experts say the astonishing rise in young adult obesity could bankrupt the NHS.
  
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• High cholesterol? Avoid heart disease by eating THESE cheeses low in saturated fat

  25-06-2017 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HIGH cholesterol can raise your risk of heart disease, heart attack and stroke, and can be caused by eating too much saturated fat.
  
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• 10 miscarriages, still trying

  25-06-2017 08:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jen Bickel has endured several rounds of IVF and two ectopic pregnancies but she has not yet given up hope of having a baby.
  
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• Brain power: what makes us sweat? | Daniel Glaser

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  We have no voluntary control over how much or when we sweat – it’s all down to the vagaries of the English summerWriting on the hottest day of the year so far, sweat was never going to be very far from my mind. This is literally true: our brains are connected to every one of the innumerable sweat glands in our skins by neural pathways.This regulation means that our evaporation cooling systems can respond to temperature changes very rapidly. No matter how hard we may try, we have no v
  
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• Cervical cancer - testing for THIS virus during a smear test could save lives

  25-06-2017 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CERVICAL cancer is a type of cancer that develops in a woman's cervix, which is the entrance to the womb from the vagina.
  
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• Yemen faces world's worst cholera outbreak - UN

  25-06-2017 04:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There are an estimated 5,000 new cases of cholera in Yemen every day, with 200,000 people affected.
  
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• Internal bra helps cancer survivors

  25-06-2017 02:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Women who face breast reconstruction after cancer surgery are being offered a boost by a mesh implant that acts like ‘an internal bra’.
  
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• Superfit 70-year-olds reveal their exercise routines

  25-06-2017 01:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rather than slowing down in the inevitable shuffle to our graves, from our seventh decade onwards we should be ramping life up a gear, say medical experts.
  
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• The pleasure and pain of leaving our woodland utopia | Tobias Jones

  25-06-2017 01:05
  
  The author and community leader recalls both frustrations and miracles as he passes his residential sanctuary into new handsAs any relay-racer knows, the moment of passing on the baton is a nervous time: you don’t want to lose momentum, but neither do you want to rush and fumble. Eight years after founding Windsor Hill Wood, our residential sanctuary for people in a period of crisis in their lives, we’re at that stage. We’re moving back to Italy and a new family is taking over
  
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• Letters: hospitals need housing for nurses, not more car parks

  25-06-2017 01:05
  
  Everyone will benefit if NHS staffcan live near their workplacesJames Tapper’s article (“Build 40,000 homes for nurses on spare NHS land”, News, 11 June) is of particular relevance to the Christie Hospital in Withington, south Manchester, where high house prices make it very difficult for hard-pressed hospital staff to live locally.This leads to many staff having to travel significant distances to work, resulting in chronic issues with traffic and parking in the area. Continue
  
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• STROKE BREAKTHROUGH: Disability caused by illness could be 'massively reduced'

  25-06-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DISABILITY caused by a stroke could be massively reduced by a pioneering treatment.
  
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• Life hacks: Switch on to stress – and turn it into a positive

  25-06-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I'M STRESSED” is a refrain most of us have used, or at least overheard, often enough.
  
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