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• Nip and tuck with Dr Tracy Mountford: Hate my filler

  16-07-2017 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A woman has had fillers injected in her cheeks but now hates them as they look 'unnatural'. Dr Tracy Mountford advised that she can have the injections dissolved if they are made from hyaluronic acid.
  
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• You Have To See How Ariel Winter Just Shut Down Her Body Shamers

  16-07-2017 22:55
  
  "I’m not a whore because I wear shorts and tank tops."
  
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• Stressful experiences can age brain 'by years', Alzheimer's experts hear

  16-07-2017 21:56
  
  Child’s death, divorce or job loss linked to poorer cognition in later life, study finds, with African Americans more susceptibleStressful life experiences can age the brain by several years, new research suggests. Experts led by a team from Wisconsin University’s school of medicine and public health in the US found that even one major stressful event early in life may have an impact on later brain health.The team examined data for 1,320 people who reported stressful experiences over
  
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• Butterfly device MobiusHD can cut the risk of stroke

  16-07-2017 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The MobiusHD sits in a branch of one of the carotid arteries. It is a featherlight, four-sided wire cage and has been able to improve patients’ prospects where medication had failed.
  
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• Worried about your odour? At least a machine will tell you straight | Nell Frizzell

  16-07-2017 19:11
  
  A few years ago I lost my sense of smell for 18 months – and it was curiously disconcerting. Now there’s an app to help you find out if you stink• Nell Frizzell is a freelance journalistNobody, apart from maybe my mother and Jefferson Hack, will ever tell you that you smell. I know, because following a particularly graceful, bike helmet-splitting fall on to against a piece of New Zealand road back in 2014, I lost my sense of smell for a full year and a half. I was as anosmic as
  
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• Terminally ill man to challenge UK ban on assisted dying

  16-07-2017 17:24
  
  High court to hear Noel Conway’s claim that 1961 Suicide Act breaches his human right to a ‘dignified death’The case of a terminally ill former lecturer will come before the high court this week in the first substantial legal challenge to the UK’s ban on assisted dying.Noel Conway, 67, from Shrewsbury, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in November 2014. His condition is incurable and he is not expected to live beyond the next 12 months. Related: ‘One person a
  
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• Art can be a powerful medicine against dementia | Nicci Gerrard

  16-07-2017 10:30
  
  The co-founder of John’s Campaign on a new parliamentary report that confirms the profoundly beneficial role of the arts in helping people with dementiaA few weeks ago, turning on the radio, I hear a voice saying that creative writing can help wounds heal faster. Startled, I turn the volume up. Volunteers were given small wounds; half were then asked to write about something distressing in their life, the other half about something mundane. The wounds of the confessional writers healed sub
  
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• Andrew Castle on how a hoverboard nearly ended his tennis

  16-07-2017 10:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It’s a tough and often painful way to earn a living – as evidenced at Wimbledon this year by Andy Murray hobbling out of the tournament on a dodgy hip, writes JANE ODDY.
  
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• Henry Marsh: ‘The mind-matter problem is not a problem for me – mind is matter’

  16-07-2017 09:00
  
  The celebrated neurosurgeon and writer talks about 40 years inside our skulls, what’s wrong with the NHS – and the Zen of woodworkHenry Marsh made the decision to become a neurosurgeon after he had witnessed his three-month-old son survive the complex removal of a brain tumour. For two decades he was the senior consultant in the Atkinson Morley wing at St George’s hospital in London, one of the country’s largest specialist brain surgery units. He pioneered techniques in o
  
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• End of Ebola sparks crisis for Sierra Leone’s teen mums

  16-07-2017 08:00
  
  A year after the country was declared free of the virus, maternity care and family planning remain starved of fundingMamie Gibila travelled across choppy waters for almost four hours last week to reach a hospital. She was midway through labour with twins. The first baby was born at home, but she was unable to deliver the second and urgently needed medical attention.Gibila lives in the town of Mina in the district of Bonthe, which comprises several islands off Sierra Leone, and the closest hospit
  
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• The real reason women freeze their eggs | Eva Wiseman

  16-07-2017 07:00
  
  It’s often assumed women freeze their eggs to stop the ticking of their fertility clocks so they can crack on with their careers. The truth is rather different…There’s a story that we’ve been told about why women freeze their eggs, which begins with ambition for a career and ends with them attempting to have it all, and it has always seemed a bit suss to me. I’ve spoken to a lot of women considering babies, both when researching egg freezing, and in my real life as
  
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• How babies sleep at festivals – and why adult brains can’t switch off

  16-07-2017 07:00
  
  Changes in our brains as we grow up mean we’re often on full alert. So pack earplugs for festivalsOne thing you notice at the family-friendly festival Latitude, now into its final day, is the effect of noise on the various age ranges here.You can see babies blissfully asleep where there is blaring music, because they are able to filter out noise. Human babies are among the most adult-dependent of all animal species which is what allows them to develop. This means they don’t have to b
  
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• Exactly How This Woman Used Yoga To Lose 120 Lbs

  16-07-2017 06:34
  
  She expected it to be horrible.
  
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• Fathers are more likely to feed children junk food

  16-07-2017 02:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The researchers, from Stanford University, found that mothers and fathers are not equally concerned about ensuring their children eat healthily.
  
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