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• This Terrible Trainer Tried To Fat-Shame A Woman Into Hiring Him, And It Totally Backfired

  30-08-2017 23:58
  This isn't business, it's bullying.
  
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• Girl with omphalocele goes home after 650-days in hospital

  30-08-2017 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Naomi Hawks, pictured, was born 21 months ago in Omaha, Nebraska, with a rare abdominal birth defect omphalocelel. Her twin was able to go home, but she was kept in care for 650 days.
  
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• Starbucks Is Closing Its Online Store So You Can Score Crazy Discounts

  30-08-2017 22:55
  Just in time for Pumpkin Spice Latte season.
  
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• ​5 Genius Meal Prep Tips That Will Help You Lose Weight, According To Redditors

  30-08-2017 22:30
  “The only downside is that you will absolutely look like a basic b*tch…”
  
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• Your September Horoscope: It's Time To Make Some Big Changes

  30-08-2017 22:29
  Don't be afraid to take a leap of faith.
  
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• 9 Things Happy Couples Always Do Before Bed

  30-08-2017 22:04
  Some of these are seriously adorable.
  
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• We need action to address the mental health crisis, not more empty words | Clare Allan

  30-08-2017 21:53
  Theresa May and her ministers now talk the talk. But government policies helped to fuel a problem they can no longer ignoreFront page articles on mental health have become a regular occurrence. This week we learned that Britain’s biggest police force received a phone call relating to mental health every five minutes last year. And James Munby, head of the high court’s family division, hit the headlines this month referring to the case of girl X – a suicidal teenager for whom no
  
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• Plastic surgery helps people quit smoking, says study

  30-08-2017 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patients are told to drop cigarettes for a month before procedures, since nicotine restricts blood flow and stops skin from healing. A Canadian study shows that is good for public health.
  
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• Ageing parents rely on kids to ferry them about, says AA

  30-08-2017 21:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ageing parents are now two and a half times more likely to rely on their children to drive them to appointments than they were five years previously, an AA study has found.
  
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• Two Australians tackle their 'man boobs' with liposuction

  30-08-2017 21:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More men than ever are booking in for liposuction., according to a top Sydney cosmetic doctor, who says over half of his patients are now males. Men feel the pressure to look good too, the doctor said.
  
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• A new tool promises to clean poo from your toothbrush

  30-08-2017 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study has shown that 60 percent of toothbrushes in shared bathrooms are infected with fecal bacteria. A new toothbrush-cleaning tool claims it can banish 99.9 percent of this bacteria.
  
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• Plastic surgery helps people quit smoking

  30-08-2017 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patients are told to drop cigarettes for a month before procedures, since nicotine restricts blood flow and stops skin from healing. A Canadian study shows that is good for public health.
  
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• Marijuana affects the way a person walks reveals new study

  30-08-2017 21:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study from the University of South Australia has found that a person's knees, elbows and shoulders work differently when they walk if they use marijuana.
  
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• Man in a coma after heart attack caused by West Nile Virus

  30-08-2017 21:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Danny Duncan, from Indiana, has been in a coma for 19 days after contracting the virus. A woman in Pittsburgh was also hospitalized with the virus.
  
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• Obese children show signs of heart failure by age one

  30-08-2017 20:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study, conducted at Constantin Opris hospital in Baia Mare, Romania, looked at the heart scans of more than 400 obese children and found clear differences in the structure of their hearts.
  
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• First cancer 'living drug' gets go-ahead

  30-08-2017 20:47 via bbc.co.uk
  US authorities approve a treatment which re-designs a patient's own immune system to attack cancer.
  
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• Gabrielle Union's Adorable Wedding Video Will Make You Believe in Love Again

  30-08-2017 20:39
  Also, her nickname for her husband is HILARIOUS.
  
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• ​5 Signs You're Using The Wrong Face Wash

  30-08-2017 20:31
  ​Plus, how to pick the perfect one for you.
  
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• Cyber-flaw affects 745,000 pacemakers

  30-08-2017 20:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The manufacturer says that patients should discuss a code fix when they next see their doctors.
  
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• UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns

  30-08-2017 20:01
  Algorithms based on NHS records could seed an ‘entirely new industry’ in AI-based diagnostics and mint billions for tech companies, strategic review revealsThe government must act urgently to ensure that patients and UK taxpayers – not just tech companies – gain from new commercial applications of NHS data, an independent review of the UK life sciences industry has said.Sir John Bell, a professor of medicine at Oxford university who led the government-commissioned review,
  
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• US clears first gene therapy for childhood leukemia

  30-08-2017 19:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The CAR-T cell treatment developed by Novartis Pharmaceuticals and the University of Pennsylvania is the first type of gene therapy to hit the U.S. market.
  
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• These Delicious Salmon Skewers Are Your New Go-To Dinner

  30-08-2017 19:43
  Time to bust out the grill!
  
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• Motorised spinning 'nanomachines' could kill cancer cells

  30-08-2017 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rice University in Houston said the molecules can be activated by ultraviolet light to spin up to three million times a second and drill through cell membranes.
  
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• Trial raises Parkinson's therapy hope

  30-08-2017 19:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Work restoring nerve cell function in monkeys could lead to human trials by the end of the next year.
  
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• Amateur tennis player on trying Maria Sharapova's drug

  30-08-2017 19:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amateur tennis player in the US Caitlin Thompson (left), told Daily Mail Online about her experience taking meldonium, which got Maria Sharapova banned from the pro-circuit for 15 months.
  
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• 5 Inspirational Stories From Hurricane Harvey That Will Make You Tear Up

  30-08-2017 19:00
  "I've only lived in Houston a week, but my neighbors have already made me cry tears of joy!"
  
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• Turns Out Finding A Plastic Surgeon On Instagram Might Be A REALLY Bad Idea

  30-08-2017 18:52
  Don't be sucked in by impressive before-and-after photos.
  
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• Ohio mother on how body brokers took daughter from rehab

  30-08-2017 18:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mikaya Feucht (pictured left between her two sons) left her Ohio home for a Florida rehab center in 2015 at 23 years old. But her mother (right) claims the care her daughter received there killed her.
  
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• Slow walkers are TWICE as likely to die from heart disease

  30-08-2017 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is believed that those who are able to walk quicker exercise more, implying a much higher level of physical fitness. The Leicester University research was based on data from 420,727 people.
  
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• 'I Made A Registry For My Dog—Here's What Happened'

  30-08-2017 18:07
  Being a dog mom is not the same as being a human mom.
  
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• Why struggling to read a map could signal dementia

  30-08-2017 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Age-related declines in navigational ability could form the basis for tools for the early diagnosis, researchers at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases say.
  
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• Stanford study shows newborns' fathers are getting older

  30-08-2017 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine studied US births from 1972 to 2015. They found the average age men become fathers has increased by three-and-a-half years.
  
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• 6 White Sneakers You'll Want To Wear Every Day​

  30-08-2017 17:57
  ​Lace 'em up or slip 'em on, and you're good to go.
  
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• Stanford study newborns' fathers are getting older

  30-08-2017 17:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine studied US births from 1972 to 2015. They found the average age men become fathers has increased by three-and-a-half years.
  
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• Patrick McKeown reveals secrets of good breathing

  30-08-2017 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Breathing expert Patrick McKeown, from Galway, Ireland, reveals mouth breathing causes poor sleep, which is linked to obesity. This interferes with hormones that control hunger.
  
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• Leeds research finds heart attack victims are dying early

  30-08-2017 17:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Heart attack victims with other health problems have a 250% raised risk of dying, a large study of 700,000 people by Leeds researchers found. It was found 89% did not receive optimal care.
  
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• Maria Menounos describes how her tumor changed her life

  30-08-2017 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After an operation in June to remove 99.9 percent of the golf-ball sized meningioma, she has told Today that the shock diagnosis has changed her life as she was forced to confront her mortality.
  
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• Less likely to get CPR for cardiac arrests in black areas

  30-08-2017 17:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In primarily white areas, 47 percent of people received help, but in black areas the rate was 18 percent - regardless of the race of the sufferer, Duke University researchers found.
  
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• NHS staff feeling drained by endless reorganisation | Letters

  30-08-2017 16:59
  Letters from Dr Will Watson, Tony Cheney and Dr Richard Turner refuting Jeremy Hunt’s defence of his health policyI must refute a lot of Jeremy Hunt’s points (Stephen Hawking is wrong about our NHS plans, 28 August). I will not waste time on his widely discredited statistic of rising NHS funding, nor discuss whether internal markets really are drivers for quality, but focus on safety.While private health insurance rates may fall, private practice has increasingly been driven by self-
  
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• Doctors back Stephen Hawking’s challenge to Jeremy Hunt | Letters

  30-08-2017 16:59
  NHS professionals and readers respond to the debate between Professor Hawking and the UK health secretary
  As NHS doctors we have been closely following the exchange between Stephen Hawking and the secretary of state for health over the past week (Why won’t Jeremy Hunt come clean?, 26 August). Since Professor Hawking delivered a momentous speech to the Royal Society of Medicine exposing the policy-driven reality of NHS underfunding and moves towards a US-style insurance system, tensions hav
  
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• When waiting for health services can have fatal consequences | Letters

  30-08-2017 16:58
  Rose Meade’s daughter killed herself while awaiting psychiatric treatment, Ruth Lewis says the health secretary is incompetence, and Amanda Eames says patients do not want seven-day GP services
  Michele Hanson’s piece about the frustration of waiting has a special resonance for me (A certain age, G2, 29 August). Less than two years ago, my daughter sought help for her feelings of depression and suicidal thoughts, and was assessed under the Mental Health Act. They sent her home with th
  
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• Labour ought to speak out about the NHS as strongly as Stephen Hawking | Letters

  30-08-2017 16:58
  Mavis Zutshi says the Labour party must make its commitment to restoring a public NHS unequivocal and Lynda Mannix says other well-known people should join Professor Hawking in lending supportStephen Hawking is doing Labour’s job for it (Why won’t Jeremy Hunt come clean? 26 August) in challenging Jeremy Hunt’s continuing distortions and misrepresentation of the truth about the NHS (Stephen Hawking is wrong about our NHS plans, 28 August). Health campaigners across the country f
  
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• 'How I Lost 50 Pounds Despite My Thyroid Condition'

  30-08-2017 16:57
  "For years, I let my condition convince me that I just couldn’t lose weight."
  
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• Bloody NHS didn’t even allow me time to read my mag | Letters

  30-08-2017 16:56
  When Andy Rowland phoned for an appointment he found himself whisked through the process with barely a spare moment to open his copy of EmpireWhat a travesty the NHS has become. Having been in possession of a hell of a cough for a few weeks, I called my GP at 8am to get an appointment.They asked: “Can you do 9am?” I replied: “On what day?” They said: “Today.” Continue reading...
  
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• The Bodyweight Workout You Do NOT Want To Underestimate

  30-08-2017 16:34
  "I've destroyed super-fit clients using nothing but their own weight as resistance."
  
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• Bolton mother vomits 60 times a day due to gastroparesis

  30-08-2017 16:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shimmi Munshi, 40, from Bolton, Lancashire, has even been doubted by doctors over her symptoms - which are similar to the eating disorder. She suffers from gastroparesis.
  
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• The dangers of looking at pictures of skinny women

  30-08-2017 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings, based on the response from a group of remote villagers without access to the internet, were the same for photos of plus-sized models. The study was led by Durham University researchers.
  
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• Exactly What To Do If Your Toenail Falls Off

  30-08-2017 15:53
  It happens to the best of us.
  
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• Just 20 minutes less sitting a day improves cholesterol

  30-08-2017 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland argue that even busy parents can set an example to their children by being less sedentary rather than worrying it is taking their time away from them.
  
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• Being a couch potato past 50 could leave you disabled

  30-08-2017 15:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For those that cannot tear themselves away, the effects could be mitigated by doing more than seven hours a week of exercise, say the team at George Washington University.
  
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