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• Exercise pill PPARD burns fat and grows muscle

  17-10-2017 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ronald Evans and his team at Salk Institute in San Diego, California, developed a drug that could burn fat and build muscle without working out. They tested the new drug on mice.
  
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• ​The Best White Elephant Gift Ideas On Amazon Prime

  17-10-2017 23:56
  These picks are hilarious and all under $20.
  
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• 'My Body Fat Was the Lowest It's Ever Been—But So Was My Self-Worth'

  17-10-2017 23:54
  Getting strong was a mental and physical journey for Mikaela Beauchamp.
  
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• Demi Lovato Just Revealed Intimate Details About Her Recent Eating Disorder Relapse

  17-10-2017 23:39
  She's opening up in her new documentary.
  
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• The Healthiest Way To Cook Every Type Of Vegetable, According To Nutritionists

  17-10-2017 23:35
  Please, please stop boiling your veggies.
  
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• Me Too: How Climbing the Mountain I Dreaded Helped Me Confront My Past Abuse

  17-10-2017 23:08
  When I was 14 something terrible happened to me at the top of Highway 9. Years later, I returned with my bike.
  
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• The humble roundworm offers hope for dementia sufferers

  17-10-2017 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study from the University of Iowa found that when worms were taught to sniff danger it protected neurons. This could lead to non-pharmaceutical treatment for dementia and Huntington's disease.
  
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• Strange illness caused Louisville boy to sleep for 2 weeks

  17-10-2017 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wyatt Shaw, seven, fell into a deep sleep for 11 days after his uncle's wedding in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Doctors thought he had a brain infection but tests came out negative. Seizure medication woke him up.
  
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• This 'Stranger Things' Star Just Revealed What Turns Him On—And It's Amazing

  17-10-2017 21:47
  He also shared his biggest fear.
  
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• Apple Watch spots NY man’s life-threatening blood clot

  17-10-2017 21:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James Green, from New York, credits the gadget, which can cost in excess of £1,500, for spotting a life-threatening blood clot in his lungs. His timepiece notified him of a sudden rise in his heart rate.
  
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• GP services in Northern Ireland are 'in crisis'

  17-10-2017 21:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Some patients in Northern Ireland are waiting up to three years to see a consultant about having surgery, following a referral.
  
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• This 'Scandal' Star Walks 6 Miles Per Day—Here's How She Does It

  17-10-2017 20:45
  Bellamy Young swears by these essentials in her gym bag.
  
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• 3 Strange Treatments Doctors Used to Think Were Good for You

  17-10-2017 19:52
  
  [brightcove:5592343939001 default]This article originally appeared on Time.com.The quest for a health is a natural human response to illness, but medical history provides plenty of reason to think twice before you try that miracle cure.Case in point: medieval doctors would press a sacrificed puppy, kitten, rabbit or lamb on top of a tumor because they thought that cancer was like a “ravenous wolf” that would rather “feed off the sacrificed animal rather than the human patient,&
  
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• 'I Wake Up And Go To Sleep Angry—And That's A Good Thing'

  17-10-2017 19:45
  It's okay to get mad. It's what you do with it that matters.
  
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• Cash-strapped NHS chiefs axe routine surgery for the obese

  17-10-2017 19:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  East and North Hertfordshire CCG and Herts Valleys CCG warned only 'exceptional circumstances' will grant obese patients non-urgent surgery. Experts have blasted the decision.
  
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• These Emotional Hair Transformation Stories Will Definitely Make You Tear Up

  17-10-2017 19:25
  "Cutting off my hair felt like I was cutting off that past person that I didn't identify with."
  
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• Las Vegas Victim, 27, Wakes from Coma and Takes First Steps After Being Shot in the Head

  17-10-2017 18:28
  
  This article originally appeared on People.com.A 27-year-old victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting has woken from a coma and taken her first steps — with some help — about two weeks after she was shot in the head during the Oct. 1 massacre at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, PEOPLE confirms.Tina Frost was at the outdoor concert on the Vegas strip that Sunday night when a gunman opened fire from his nearby hotel suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino,
  
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• Leeds United players and staff donate pay to boy's cancer care

  17-10-2017 18:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Toby Nye was diagnosed with a stage four neuroblastoma on his fourth birthday.
  
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• NHS surgery waits run into years in Northern Ireland

  17-10-2017 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Waiting times are increasing as the health services struggles to cope, figures obtained by the BBC reveal.
  
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• Drug therapy 'restores breathing' after spinal injury

  17-10-2017 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  The researchers hope the results in rats could ultimately help paralysed patients come off ventilators.
  
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• Conjoined twins born NATURALLY have separation operation

  17-10-2017 17:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One-week-old Anick and Destin were born in a remote village in the DR of Congo. The girls were joined at the abdomen and share some internal organs. They will return home in 3 weeks.
  
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• Sprouts may make aggressive breast cancers treatable

  17-10-2017 17:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Alabama in Birmingham found compounds in cruciferous vegetables and the herbal drink 'turn off' cancerous genes that influence tumor treatment response.
  
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• Blake Lively Just Revealed The Reason Why Her Relationship With Ryan Reynolds Is So Strong

  17-10-2017 17:43
  It makes sense.
  
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• Could this explain why boys more likely to have autism?

  17-10-2017 17:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Figures suggest four boys are diagnosed with autism to every one girl. Experts at the University of Iowa found male mice with a genetic cause show signs of being on the spectrum - but females didn't.
  
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• Jeyaraj Vadiveloo on how many healthy years we have left

  17-10-2017 17:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, a professor at the University of Connecticut, led a team developing an online calculator to assess a person's 'healthy life expectancy'. Try it here.
  
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• Men may be at-risk of death when receiving blood from mums

  17-10-2017 17:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Sanquin Research in Leiden, the Netherlands, found the most common cause of such deaths is transfusion-related acute lung injury. Women are unaffected by these transfusions.
  
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• Seven hours sleep maximises sleep quality

  17-10-2017 17:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Third Military Medical University in Chongqing, China, found getting more than nine hours shut eye reduces the stability of sperm's DNA by 40% by hindering testosterone.
  
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• One in nine American men has oral HPV reveal new figures

  17-10-2017 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Florida found men were more likely to get oral HPV than women. Actor Michael Douglas said in 2013 that he got throat cancer from performing oral sex on his wife.
  
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• The cures of yesteryear including cocaine for toothache

  17-10-2017 17:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  These and many more weird and wacky remedies have been outlined in a new book, Quackery: A Brief History Of The Worst Ways To Cure Everything, written by a Nebraska doctor.
  
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• The Royal Family Just Announced The Due Date Of Kate Middleton's 3rd Child

  17-10-2017 17:21
  Just as with her other pregnancies, she's suffering from morning sickness.
  
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• Reese Witherspoon Says She Was Assaulted By A Director When She Was 16

  17-10-2017 17:15
  "I felt less alone this week than I’ve ever felt in my entire career."
  
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• What's The Best Way To Track Weight Loss: A Measuring Tape Or Scale?

  17-10-2017 17:10
  We asked the experts.
  
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• Genes that cause OCD identified by scientists

  17-10-2017 17:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings confirm suspicions that thecondition – suffered by David Beckham – is genetic, found a study by The Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the US.
  
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• Sprinkling This Powder Into Your Smoothies Might Help You Lose Weight

  17-10-2017 17:02
  Move over, matcha.
  
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• Type 2 diabetes breakthrough

  17-10-2017 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leicester Diabetes Centre experts found semaglutide helped 71 per cent of patients shed pounds - it is believed this is the first type 2 diabetes pill to instigate weight loss. It also halts the condition.
  
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• Your Vagina Might Be Itchier On Your Period—Here's Why

  17-10-2017 16:52
  We asked the experts what to do about it.
  
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• The Best Yoga Mats, According To Top Yoga Instructors

  17-10-2017 16:31
  ​It’s a crime against yoga to let a bad mat disrupt your practice, so let the pros tell you about the best of the bunch.
  
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• Too much exercise can kill you if you're a white man

  17-10-2017 16:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Chicago assessed workouts over 25 years and made the surprising discovery that very active white men are 86 percent more likely to experience a buildup of plaque in the arteries.
  
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• Indian girl's cheeks swell due to mysterious condition

  17-10-2017 16:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Suman Kumari, 17, from a slum in Delhi, has seen her face slowly become disfigured - but doctors are baffled as to why it has happened. Her swollen face has caused her problems chewing.
  
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• The Secret Ingredients That Helped These 5 Women Lose 20+ Pounds

  17-10-2017 16:00
  The little things really add up.
  
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• AI used to detect breast cancer risk

  17-10-2017 15:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Machine learning is being used to spot whether breast lesions are cancerous or not.
  
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• This Workout Transformed Krysten Ritter's Body From Slender To Badass-Level Sculpted

  17-10-2017 15:30
  We got the inside scoop from her trainer.
  
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• Michigan mother's birth control implant went missing

  17-10-2017 15:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kelly King, 23, from Greenville, Michigan, decided to get the implant removed just a year after it was placed in her arm due to the severe side effects she endured. It made her feel 'crazy', she said.
  
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• Stress is as bad as a high-fat diet for women

  17-10-2017 14:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Brigham Young University found only female mice's guts are affected by stress, which is concerning considering women are more at-risk of depression and anxiety, which is linked to stress.
  
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• What to do if you’re in London and think you have gonorrhoea? Test yourself | Nichi Hodgson

  17-10-2017 14:13
  Make no mistake: the closure of sexual health clinics and promotion of self-testing is a money-saving exercise – when STI rates are rising in the capitalLike any thriving cosmopolis, London is a place of risk and reward. You’re never more than a hot breath away from someone throwing caution to the wind.This happens with the things we shouldn’t be risking as much as with those we should. London has significantly higher rates of STI infection than the rest of the country, for ins
  
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• What to do if you’re a Londoner worried about gonorrhoea? Test yourself, apparently | Nichi Hodgson

  17-10-2017 14:13
  Make no mistake: the closure of sexual health clinics and promotion of self-testing is a money-saving exercise – when STI rates are rising in the capitalLike any thriving cosmopolis, London is a place of risk and reward. You’re never more than a hot breath away from someone throwing caution to the wind.This happens with the things we shouldn’t be risking as much as with those we should. London has significantly higher rates of STI infection than the rest of the country, for ins
  
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• Men sustaining sex injuries has increased by four times

  17-10-2017 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Stephen Makinde, clinical director of the 'Perfect Balance' clinic in Harley Street, men are suffering from wrist fractures, ankle sprains, back problems and even hernias.
  
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• Check the key targets in your area

  17-10-2017 13:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Use our tracker to check whether your local services are meeting strict waiting-time targets for cancer, routine operations and A&E.
  
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• At the call of ‘cardiac arrest’, you swing into action – and try until all hope is gone | Saleyha Ahsan

  17-10-2017 13:41
  The story of a man whose life was saved after more than an hour of CPR doesn’t surprise me. I’ve had similarly emotional, exhausting experiences
  • Saleyha Ahsan is a doctor based in LondonImagine trying to save someone whose heart has stopped. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with rescue breaths is being delivered to maintain essential oxygen flow to the brain. But the heart has not started beating on its own again. How long should the doctor carry on before “making the
  
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• 'I felt so low, I couldn't see a way out'

  17-10-2017 11:31 via bbc.co.uk
  A record number of children seek help from Childline over suicidal thoughts and feelings.
  
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