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• How a zapper in your lower body can banish lower back pain

  17-07-2017 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sharon Palmer, 55, from Hornchurch, Essex, suffered with intense back pain for years - until a device was fitted which instantly eased the pain.
  
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• This Quick Workout Will Shock Your Body In All The Right Ways

  17-07-2017 23:34
  
  Your muscles won't know what hit 'em.
  
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• Scientists discover how to treat two Alzheimer's genes

  17-07-2017 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Until now, these two genes were seen as protectors, since they are part of the brain's immune system. But Cardiff University scientists have found they can also facilitate the disease.
  
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• This Purple Toothpaste Actually Makes Your Teeth Whiter

  17-07-2017 23:08
  
  We couldn't believe it at first either.
  
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• Why Viking diet is the best way to keep the brain healthy

  17-07-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People sticking to the so-called 'healthy Nordic diet' should avoid eating too many root vegetables, potatoes, refined grains, butter, sugar and fruit juice, Swedish researchers say.
  
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• Akosua Budu Amoako, 59, has baby

  17-07-2017 22:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Akosua Budu Amoako gave birth to a full-term 7lb, 4oz boy on June 15 at Bellevue Woman's Center in Niskayuna, near Albany.
  
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• ​The Fitbit Blaze Is On Sale For Its Lowest Price Ever

  17-07-2017 22:33
  
  It's under $100. Quick. This is not a drill!
  
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• Colorado boy's muscles 'turning to bone'

  17-07-2017 22:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Caleb Burgess, an 11-year-old from Castle Rock, Colorado, was diagnosedwith a rare disease called Fibrodysplasia Ossficans Progressiva (FOP), which is also called 'Stone Man Disease'.
  
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• This 5-Day Plan Will Take Your Masturbation Game To The Next Level

  17-07-2017 22:01
  
  Orgasms, here you come.
  
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• BCAA formula could lack ingredients needed to tone up

  17-07-2017 21:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Stirling found that branched-chain amino acid formulas are less effective at stimulating growth than other muscle-building supplement alternatives.
  
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• Scientists create a 3D-printed silicone artificial heart

  17-07-2017 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A soft, artificial heart has been created using pioneering 3D printing technology by Swiss researchers. Made out of silicone, it is said to imitate the real thing 'in form and function'.
  
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• 'I'm An Autistic Adult—Here's What I Want You To Know'

  17-07-2017 21:29
  
  Three women share how they learned to live (and thrive) with autism.
  
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• Dementia news: Being single or widowed increases risk

  17-07-2017 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BEING single or widowed increases the risk of dementia, a study found.
  
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• Frequent fliers risk heart damage from increased radiation

  17-07-2017 21:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, found that radiation may reduce the heart's ability to contract.
  
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• UAE first cousins give birth to girl with severe diarrhoea

  17-07-2017 20:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This case highlights the worrying problems that can occur as a result of inbreeding. (Hiba Maroof, from Bradford, talking to her two sisters just before marrying their cousins in a documentary)
  
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• Can You Really Use Apple Cider Vinegar To Treat Your Acne?

  17-07-2017 20:37
  
  There's one big catch.
  
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• The scandal of big tobacco’s behaviour in the developing world | Letters

  17-07-2017 20:34
  
  Readers respond to the Guardian’s investigative series on cigarette companies’ efforts to squash anti-smoking measures in the poorest countriesI welcome your editorial and related coverage (Stop the spread of the tobacco companies’ poison, 13 July). Tobacco smoking is still the largest single preventable cause of ill-health and death. In the UK the reduction in smoking is one of the great public health success stories. However, it is important that this achievement is
  
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• You Won’t Have Any Excuse To Skip Working Out After Seeing This Instagram Star In Action

  17-07-2017 20:19
  
  She can even turn waiting in traffic into a workout.
  
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• Norovirus OUTBREAK: School closed after stomach bug infects ‘significant number’ of pupils

  17-07-2017 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NOROVIRUS is thought to be the reason for the absences of a ‘significant number’ of pupils from a Welsh primary school that was forced to close last week.
  
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• Dementia news: Five life changes you can take now to reduce your risk

  17-07-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DEMENTIA affects 850,000 people in the UK, and numbers are on rise.
  
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• Being vegetarian isn't always healthy

  17-07-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Harvard University experts designed separate diets which focused on plant food with a reduced animal intake and a vegetarian diet based on whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
  
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• Being told I was a disappointment to medicine haunted me for years | Ranjana Srivastava

  17-07-2017 20:00
  
  Praise is largely a forgotten concept in medicine, with the myth that trainees learn through ‘tough love’ still perpetuated. This needs to change
  Ranjana Srivastava is a Guardian Australia columnistMany years ago, when I was a trainee physician, a formal feedback to track my progress never materialised. Instead, late one evening, with no prior notice, I was marched into a room and told by a clearly enraged consultant that he wished I had never been selected into the training program.
  
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• This Reddit User Says Her Boss Won't Stop Texting Her During Maternity Leave

  17-07-2017 19:45
  
  We asked an expert what to do if something like this happens to you.
  
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• A big breakfast and a skimpy dinner is key to weight loss

  17-07-2017 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People who made breakfast the largest meal of the day were slimmer, Californian researchers found. People who eat only one or two meals per day had a lower BMI, they say.
  
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• Health checks all diabetes patients should have

  17-07-2017 19:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Diabetes patients should be having their blood pressure, cholesterol and kidney function tested every year, according to Diabetes UK. This could identify problems before they become serious.
  
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• Cardiff NHS hospital staff lose parking tickets case

  17-07-2017 19:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A court rules 75 hospital workers must pay outstanding tickets for parking in the wrong bays at work.
  
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• Michaela Armer wakes up with different foreign accents

  17-07-2017 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michaela Armer, 47, from Poulton-Le-Fylde, lost her Lancashire accent overnight two years ago after an MRI scan. Foreign accent syndrome has also left her wheelchair reliant she claims.
  
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• Bride Kathryn Reffold's wedding tiredness was cancer

  17-07-2017 19:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the months leading up to her wedding Kathryn Reffold, 36, ofEast London, felt fatigued, suffered indigestion and had a pain in her shoulder, but it turned out to be Stage 4 cancer.
  
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• Why you should find yourself a partner

  17-07-2017 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University College London experts suggested this could be because married couples generally tend to be more socially active, have more frequent conversations and healthier.
  
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• Lyndi Cohen: Healthy habits could hinder fitness goals

  17-07-2017 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  You might think weighing yourself religiously and avoiding eating out with friends will make you slim. But, dietitian and nutritionist, Lyndi Cohen, said these 'healthy' habits might be hindering you.
  
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• ​7 Things You Should Know Before Taking Probiotics

  17-07-2017 18:33
  
  For one, they've got a shelf life.
  
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• Doctors Discovered 27 Contact Lenses Stuck In This Woman's Eye

  17-07-2017 18:28
  
  "We were really surprised the patient didn't notice it."
  
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• Are You A Relationship Isolator? Take This Quiz To Find Out

  17-07-2017 18:22
  
  How much time is too much time with your partner?
  
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• Noel Conway: Challenging law on assisted suicide

  17-07-2017 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Noel Conway says his terminal illness will leave him in a zombie-like condition.
  
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• Big tobacco bullies the global south. Trade deals are their biggest weapon | Matthew Bramall and Paul Keenlyside

  17-07-2017 18:10
  
  The industry has a long history of using trade to force their products into new markets. This has led to at least a 5% increase in cigarette deaths
  The Guardian view on big tobacco: stop the spreadCigarette packets often carry the warning to “protect children: don’t make them breathe your smoke”. In 2014, the Kenyan government attempted to do just that – banning the sale of single cigarettes, banning smoking in vehicles with a child and keeping the tobacco industry out of
  
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• Is there anything a Mediterranean diet can’t cure?

  17-07-2017 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Those who stuck to the diet were 35 per cent less likely to perform badly on cognitive tests - an early sign of the disease, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, say.
  
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• Why inbreeding really can be deadly

  17-07-2017 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This case highlights the worrying problems that can occur as a result of inbreeding. (Hiba Maroof, from Bradford, talking to her two sisters just before marrying their cousins in a documentary)
  
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• 6 Ways You Can Eat Italian Food And Still Lose Weight

  17-07-2017 17:35
  
  You can have your ziti and eat it, too.
  
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• We are told we are a burden. Legalising assisted suicide would further devalue our lives | Jamie Hale

  17-07-2017 17:34
  
  As someone who relies extensively on social and medical care I understand Noel Conway’s fears, but our welfare should not be seen as a luxury• Jamie Hale is a poet and disabled activistNoel Conway’s challenge to the 1961 Suicide Act goes before the high court this week. His argument is that the UK’s ban on assisted suicide breaches the right to a private life under the Human Rights Act – and his aim is to have it legalised for terminally ill people who have less than
  
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• Are YOU a frequent flyer? Radiation linked to heart damage

  17-07-2017 17:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, found that radiation may reduce the heart's ability to contract.
  
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• Is your teenager at risk of becoming a binge drinker?

  17-07-2017 17:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Teens who show high levels of impulsiveness and sensation seeking are at risk, a study from the University of Barcelona found. Being extra sensitive and feeling hopeless are also factors.
  
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• This Is What It Really Means To Be Gender Fluid

  17-07-2017 17:23
  
  "It's important to remember that there is no one definition."
  
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• WARNING: Surgeons remove 27 contact lenses from woman's eye during cataract surgery

  17-07-2017 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CONTACT LENSES must be used with a degree of caution, as one woman from the West Midlands has discovered after 27 were removed from one eye during routine cataract surgery
  
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• Are you being conned by your protein shake?

  17-07-2017 17:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Stirling found that branched-chain amino acid formulas are less effective at stimulating growth than other muscle-building supplement alternatives.
  
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• Dementia or fibromyalgia? Memory loss could be linked to lesser-known condition

  17-07-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MEMORY loss may not be a sign of dementia, but a painful, life-long condition called fibromyalgia.
  
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• Diet to prevent dementia: Mediterranean food will maintain memory and reduce disease risk

  17-07-2017 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DEMENTIA risk could be reduced by adopting healthy eating habits - and following the Mediterranean diet, new research has confirmed.
  
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• ‘Social prescriptions’ may be better than treatments

  17-07-2017 16:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Newcastle University found that sufferers of long-term conditions such as diabetes report better pain management after doing activities like attending dance clubs.
  
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• Spotting dementia symptoms: THIS simple procedure could help diagnose Alzheimer's disease

  17-07-2017 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DEMENTIA symptoms and signs of Alzheimer’s disease could be spotted by with PET scans, but experts have warned the equipment is being under-utilised.
  
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• Pauses in speech may indicate Alzheimer’s disease

  17-07-2017 16:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that people with a family history of the condition are less able to express their ideas and have reduced 'fluency' when speaking.
  
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• Are YOU suffering the 100-day cough? Symptoms of whooping cough revealed

  17-07-2017 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  WHOOPING cough is a highly contagious bacterial infection of the lung - and could be causing your persistent cough.
  
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