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• Kim Kardashian Says She Has Body Dysmorphia, but What Does That Really Mean?

  10-10-2017 23:48
  
  [brightcove:5556380727001 default]Kim Kardashian is all about a perfectly posed selfie and expertly contoured face. But even she experiences a self-esteem plunge when she hears negative comments about her body. On the most recent episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kim opened up about the toll being in the public eye has had on her body image.In the episode, unretouched bikini photos of Kardashian went viral online. While dealing with the fallout, she a
  
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• Childbirth is not prolonged by an epidural

  10-10-2017 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Those who had the injection during the second stage of labour were told the delay could raise the risk of excessive bleeding and infection, or their baby being delivered with forceps.
  
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• Pediatricians need to know how to treat heroin addiction

  10-10-2017 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The number of teenagers dying from drug overdoses is rising, according to the CDC. But few pediatricians know how to treat opioid use disorder, creating a lack of care for addicted children.
  
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• This Actress Just Shared A Naked Selfie 1 Week After Her C-Section

  10-10-2017 23:18
  She's keeping it real.
  
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• 'I Started Eating 600 More Calories Per Day And It Totally Changed My Body'

  10-10-2017 23:17
  Ditching her low-cal diet helped Kimberley French see major muscle gains.
  
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• Mindfulness affects on physical and mental health

  10-10-2017 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia, studied if mindfulness and meditation helped physical and mental health. They found no evidence that the practices were beneficial.
  
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• 11 Women Share What Getting A Mammogram Really Feels Like

  10-10-2017 21:50
  "Seriously, so much squishing! But it didn't hurt."
  
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• What It's Really Like To Come Out, According To 4 Women

  10-10-2017 21:34
  "All of a sudden, I had to answer questions and try and explain myself to everyone."
  
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• Fever in pregnancy causes heart, facial birth defects

  10-10-2017 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fever in early pregnancy can lead to heart and facial defects in a fetus, a new study from Duke University reveals. Researchers say that taking acetaminophen may prevent defects.
  
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• 'These Leggings Instantly Sculpt My Butt and Legs'

  10-10-2017 21:18
  They hold up during any and every workout, too.
  
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• 'I Shared My "Harvey Weinstein" Story On Twitter—And The Response Was Overwhelming'

  10-10-2017 21:18
  Speaking up is a powerful thing.
  
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• 10 Protein Powders That Will Help You Lose Weight​

  10-10-2017 21:10
  ​Spend less time staring at labels, and more time losing lbs.
  
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• MPs to debate use of controversial vaginal mesh implants

  10-10-2017 20:36
  Parliament will discuss risks associated with implants after women report debilitating complications, including perforated organs and chronic painThe use of controversial vaginal mesh implants will be debated by MPs next week, amid concerns over the traumatic complications suffered by some patients.Parliament will discuss the risks associated with the implants, which are widely used to treat incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, common conditions in women who have had children. During the past
  
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• Fertility MoT tests 'a waste of money'

  10-10-2017 20:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Measuring how many eggs a woman has left cannot predict likelihood of getting pregnant, experts say.
  
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• More than half of police killings left undocumented

  10-10-2017 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The death certificates of more than half of the 1,166 people killed by police in 2015 did not disclose that police were involved, a new Harvard University study found.
  
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• The need to tackle London’s toxic air | Letters

  10-10-2017 19:45
  Jeremy Simons of the City of London Corporation wants to see existing diesel private hire vehicles removed from fleets as soon as possible, and Tompion Platt of Living Streets wants more children to be able to walk to school
  It is of real concern to read that nearly 95% of London’s population live in areas exceeding WHO limits for particulate matter (Report, 5 October). Inner London’s location, its dense road network and high buildings mean that it suffers from poorer air quality tha
  
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• GelrinC gel could stop your knees becoming arthritic

  10-10-2017 19:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A high-tech gel to prevent the damage that leads to arthritic knees is being tested. The treatment aims to encourage the growth of cartilage.
  
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• 7 Little Things You Can Do During Sex To Boost Your Bond With Your Partner

  10-10-2017 19:13
  Strengthen your relationship with these simple bedroom bonding tips.
  
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• Woman describes her sudden onset of synesthesia

  10-10-2017 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Out of the blue, Vanessa Potter, from the UK, lost her sight entirely, and her body felt like ice. As she recovered, her senses mingled – hearing and touch changed the way she saw colors.
  
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• 'Smart drug' keeps your brain sharp at high altitudes

  10-10-2017 18:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report from Third Military Medical University in China found that a drug called oxiracetam could prevent altitude sickness, which Kylie Jenner (pictured) suffered from on a trip to Peru in May.
  
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• I’ve been a doctor for years – why am I still called a ‘junior’?

  10-10-2017 18:37
  We’re often thought of as baby-faced, inexperienced and panic-stricken – but junior doctors are the backbone of the NHS, and a new campaign aims to see this reflected in our job titleToday marks the start of a campaign by the Royal Society of Medicine to abolish the terms “junior doctor” and “trainee doctor”. It is hoped that acknowledging doctors’ experience within their job title will be a cost-neutral way of boosting morale and giving them “the
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Says This Is How She Makes Her Long-Distance Relationship Work

  10-10-2017 18:34
  Khloe's boyfriend Tristan Thompson lives in Cleveland.
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Says This Is How She Made Her Long-Distance Relationship Work

  10-10-2017 18:34
  Khloe's boyfriend Tristan Thompson lived in Cleveland.
  
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• New York woman has a hairball removed from her stomach

  10-10-2017 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT:The anonymous patient, from New York, had surgery to remove another hairball a decade ago. She admittedthat she had begun to eat her own hair again.
  
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• I’m proud to be called a junior doctor. Titles are the least of our problems | Rachel Clarke

  10-10-2017 17:57
  If the chief medical officer wants to boost rock-bottom morale, instead of giving us a ‘modern name’, she should give us more doctors, more beds and more resourcesUntil Jeremy Hunt chose to weaponise the term, I didn’t give my status as a junior doctor a second’s thought. Sure, it was a bit of a misnomer. I’m the wrong side of 40 and a mother of two, after all. But to me, the doctor bit was all that mattered. After six years of study, I was, at last, a doctor &ndash
  
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• Scientists develop an implant that can grow with a child

  10-10-2017 17:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a growable implant for use in a cardiac procedure called a valve annuloplasty.
  
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• NHS won't cope with rise in demand without more money, boss tells MPs

  10-10-2017 17:40
  Simon Stevens adds to pressure on Theresa May over NHS England funding by saying government will have to fund pay rise
  The health service must receive more money in next month’s budget if it is to cope with the rapidly rising demand for care, the boss of the NHS in England has warned Theresa May.
  Simon Stevens told MPs on Tuesday that the funding the government has earmarked for the NHS in the next two years is not enough and needs to be “amended”.Continue reading...
  
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• NHS England boss calls for extra budget funds to cope with rising demand

  10-10-2017 17:40
  Simon Stevens tells MPs that ‘pencilled-in funding’ for health service over next two years looks ‘extremely challenging’The health service must receive more money in next month’s budget or it will not be able to cope with rapidly rising demand for care, the boss of the NHS in England has warned Theresa May.
  Simon Stevens made clear to MPs on Tuesday that the sums the government has earmarked to fund the NHS in the next two years are not enough and need to be “
  
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• 8 Signs You Need To Take A Mental-Health Day Right Now

  10-10-2017 17:32
  Sick days are for more than just the flu.
  
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• Trying on Halloween costumes could give you head lice

  10-10-2017 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors see an increase in head lice during the Halloween season. The crawling bugs travel from items including wigs and masks such as what Heidi Klum wore when she was Jessica Rabbit in 2015.
  
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• Woman, 37, has a huge HAIRBALL removed from her stomach

  10-10-2017 17:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT:The anonymous patient, from New York, had surgery to remove another hairball a decade ago. She admittedthat she had begun to eat her own hair again.
  
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• If You've Been Super-Gassy Lately, These 5 Habits May Be To Blame

  10-10-2017 17:11
  Are you overdoing it with certain foods?
  
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• Want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness: are Beveridge’s five evils back?

  10-10-2017 17:04
  It’s 75 years since the Beveridge report paved the way for the welfare state, and the UK is again plagued by the problems he aimed to eradicate – from insecure jobs to malnutritionThis November marks the 75th anniversary of the Beveridge report – the founding document of the modern welfare state and the answer to the question: what would Clement Attlee do? The Attlee government’s radical agenda, after all, basically enacted every recommendation made by eccentric patrician
  
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• Human intestines have been grown in the lab

  10-10-2017 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Human intestines have been grown in a lab and successfully transplanted into rats in Boston, Massachusetts. The discovery could help to solve the organ donor crisis for intestines.
  
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• Exactly How To Peel An Orange Without Creating A Giant Mess

  10-10-2017 16:56
  This method is foolproof.
  
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• Missing breakfast cuts more than 300 calories a day

  10-10-2017 16:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the universities of Loughborough and Bedfordshire found fastinguntil lunch causes people to eat around 353 fewer calories a day, which could cause weight loss.
  
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• Forked tongues and tattooed eyeballs: should body modification be regulated?

  10-10-2017 16:42
  Body art parlours are springing up everywhere, but the legislation to govern what can and can’t be done is lacking, leaving some reputable artists up in armsGraham had his tongue cut in half without any anaesthetic. “It was uncomfortable, but I’m good with pain,” he says. “Some people take it better than others.” And he would know. More than a decade later, he has given lizard-like tongue snips to countless more customers as a tattoo and body modification
  
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• These 6 Mushrooms Will Satisfy All Of Your Savory Cravings

  10-10-2017 16:39
  They're good for way more than stir-frys.
  
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• World's biggest tumour removed from Mumbai woman's kidney

  10-10-2017 16:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Manju Devi, 28, from Mumbai, had complained of a 'lump' on her right side for three years before a scan revealed a huge 31cm by 19 cm mass.
  
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• Adding fat to your salad makes it healthier

  10-10-2017 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Iowa State University found tucking into a plate of lettuce and cucumber with a drizzle of oil could increase the absorption of eight nutrients linked to human health.
  
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• Can prosecco ever be hangover-free?

  10-10-2017 15:55 via bbc.co.uk
  As claims abound of a prosecco that leaves you feeling fine the morning after, we ask if they're true.
  
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• Parents of teenage daughters are most likely to divorce

  10-10-2017 15:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Jan Kabatek and Dr David Ribar, Research Fellows at the University of Melbourne, explain why divorce risk increases with children's ages (stock image).
  
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• The best way to tell how someone is feeling

  10-10-2017 15:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People tend to read others' emotions more accurately when they listen and don't look, according a new study by researchers from Yale University in Connecticut (stock image).
  
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• Lab slices up brains to find a cure for Parkinson's

  10-10-2017 15:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Imperial College London dissect brains that are donated by members of the public, and include both those with and without the condition to allow for comparisons to be made between tissues.
  
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• Contraceptive implant nearly cost Walsall woman her life

  10-10-2017 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tasha Hughes, now 20, from Walsall, suffered a massive build-up of fluid on her brain, called intracranial hypertension, a year after having an implant fitted in her arm when she was just 17.
  
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• Colombian man's face is rotting following botched surgery

  10-10-2017 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jerson Trujillo, 28, from Neiva, five hours south of Bogota, went under the knife in his quest to look like a woman - but the procedure went wrong. He has been left with a heavily disfigured face.
  
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• 'Home first' model aims to stop patients being stranded on hospital wards

  10-10-2017 14:40
  The quicker older people get out of hospital, the less likely they’ll end up in residential homes or back on a wardWith winter looming, health and care teams are being urged to radically overhaul discharge procedures to prevent patients being left stranded on hospital wards. New approaches are yielding striking results that could help avert a beds crisis – and improve older people’s chances of continuing to live independently.
  The latest thinking on hospital discharge is to get
  
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• There may finally be a way to stop abuse by anti-abortion protesters| Rupa Huq

  10-10-2017 14:30
  A London council may extend asbo powers to deal with those who harass women as they enter NHS services, in a move that could be replicated across the countryOstensibly, women’s rights have long been enshrined in law; the purpose of the 1970 Equal Pay Act is self-explanatory. The Equality Act of 2010 in theory outlawed male colleagues’ wandering hands by legislating against workplace harassment. But reality often jars with legal niceties.Reproductive rights are one area where parity i
  
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• Will anti-malaria pills give me nightmares and heartburn? 

  10-10-2017 13:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SPONSORED. As part of a weekly series, in association with LloydsPharmacy, Suresh Bagga from LloydsPharmacy Online Doctor answers your common medicine queries
  
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• Love Island's Chris Hughes' breaks down in tears

  10-10-2017 12:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 24-year-old, from Cheltenham, has overcome a crippling battle with anxiety and panic attacks in the past. He broke down in tears at an event to mark World Mental Health Day.
  
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