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• Outbreak of EYE syphilis is not slowing down, CDC warns 

  03-11-2017 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 200 people across 20 states were diagnosed with the sexually-transmitted disease in their eyes between 2014 and 2016, according to data from the CDC.
  
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• The Scary Type Of Pregnancy That Could Rupture Your Fallopian Tube

  03-11-2017 23:10
  Sometimes it even leads to death.
  
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• NFL Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti pledges brain to science

  03-11-2017 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Miami Dolphins legend, 76, was diagnosed with dementia in May, and his doctors suspect he also suffers CTE, a disease which scientists believe is caused by football.
  
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• 8 Thoughts Every Woman Has During Cuffing Season

  03-11-2017 22:59
  'Tis the season...to find a temporary relationship.
  
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• Children with SMA may walk again thanks to treatments

  03-11-2017 22:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ruby Sun, six, and her brother Landon, three, of Wisconsin both suffer from a genetic disease that renders them unable to walk and kills more infants than any other. But two new treatments offer hope.
  
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• People Who Do THIS At Least Once A Week Have More Sex

  03-11-2017 22:18
  Interesting...
  
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• People Are PISSED At Ivanka's Comments During A Speech She Just Gave

  03-11-2017 22:14
  Here's why.
  
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• Time on social media is not linked to poor mental health

  03-11-2017 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spending more time on social media may not be linked to the surge in mental health concerns among young adults, according to a new study from two Florida universities.
  
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• Three cups of coffee a day may help people live longer

  03-11-2017 21:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A North Lisbon Hospital Centre study that followed more than 2,300 patients for 12 years found those who drank plenty of the beverage slashed their risk of dying by a quarter.
  
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• Prostitute hospitalized after swallowing a condom whole

  03-11-2017 21:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dang, a 48-year-old Vietnamese woman, denied sex work when police raided the 'health spa' in Taichung City, Taiwan, on March 14. But she soon became critically dehydrated.
  
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• Exactly How Each Form Of Birth Control Affects Your Period

  03-11-2017 21:24
  It will definitely alter your flow.
  
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• Amazon Has An Incredible Deal On The Best Electric Toothbrush

  03-11-2017 21:12
  It's more than $100 off right now.
  
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• Labour demands inquiry into delayed payments to trainee GPs

  03-11-2017 20:52
  Hundreds of doctors in England have not received salaries, according to BMA, as a result of errors by CapitaLabour is demanding an inquiry into how trainee GPs did not receive their salaries from a private firm that is meant to pay them on behalf of the NHS.
  Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, has urged Jeremy Hunt to act after the Guardian disclosed that the delays had led to some family doctors being unable to pay their mortgage and having to seek help from a charity.Related: Hundr
  
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• 'Nerve centre' of Alzheimer's disease discovered

  03-11-2017 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from the University of Lund in Sweden say the disease starts in the brain's 'default mode network' – an area that remains active even when we are daydreaming.
  
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• Nordstrom's Fall Sale Has Tons Of Hot Leggings Under $50

  03-11-2017 20:40
  Round out your workout wardrobe with pairs discounted up to 40%. The sale ends November 12—GO!
  
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• You could be forced to pay your GP £70 to squeeze you in

  03-11-2017 20:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Doctaly has 25 practices following a 'successful' pilot scheme in London. It's now secured expansion capital and is rolling out nationally. Critics brand it a 'two-tier health system'.
  
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• ​Try This Filling Vegetarian Meal Plan For Weight Loss

  03-11-2017 20:30
  New research shows it could help you drop more pounds.
  
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• Cold weather UK: SIX ways to keep elderly people safe when temperatures drop this WINTER

  03-11-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  COLD WEATHER can be dangerous for older people. Here are six ways to protect the elderly against low temperatures this winter.
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Just Got Kim Kardashian To Talk About Her Farting Habits

  03-11-2017 19:59
  And she reveals so much more.
  
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• US rate for gun deaths is up for the second straight year

  03-11-2017 19:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US rate for gun deaths increased for the second straight year, after 15 years of no real change, the latest CDC report shows. In 2016, more than 38,000 people were killed by guns.
  
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• Men seeking medical weed bombard licensed gynecologist

  03-11-2017 19:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Liang Bartkowiak, of Atloona, Pennsylvania, says she was shocked, since she's an obstetrician-gynecologist who treats women exclusively, and she can only prescribe oils.
  
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• California doctor pops a stye next to patient's eyeball

  03-11-2017 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clip shows Dr Michael Lewis, from California, use a syringe twice to break the skin of an unnamed woman with a stye. Despite the needle poking close to her eyeball, she does not even flinch.
  
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• Prepare yourself for gorging season with these diet tips

  03-11-2017 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Personal trainer Joe Masiello and nutritional experts Irina Popa and Amy Shapiro in NYC offer their tips for fitness, diet and hangover cures during the holidays. Hint: put away the stretchy pants.
  
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• Depression symptoms higher in those following vegetarian diet, study finds

  03-11-2017 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  DEPRESSION symptoms have been found to be more likely in vegetarians, according to new analysis.
  
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• Are You Making This Huge Weight Loss Mistake?

  03-11-2017 18:37
  Here's what you need to know.
  
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• 3 Foot Symptoms That Could Signal A Bigger Health Problem

  03-11-2017 18:37
  Toes keep getting numb? Here's what it could mean.
  
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• Directors at 'unsafe' mental health trust got pay rise

  03-11-2017 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Four directors got pay rises at a mental health trust dubbed "the undisputed worst" in the country.
  
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• Parents of brain-damaged baby ask judges to allow new assessment

  03-11-2017 18:05
  Lerne Haastrup and Takesha Thomas do not accept advice of doctors to switch off machine keeping eight-month-old Isaiah aliveThe parents of a brain-damaged baby will ask the high court on Monday to allow an independent expert to assess their son’s likely quality of life, refusing to accept the advice of his doctors that his ventilator should be switched off.Isaiah Haastrup is eight months old, cannot breathe for himself and has cerebral palsy following a disastrous birth at King’s Col
  
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• Parents ask high court to allow independent expert to assess brain-damaged baby

  03-11-2017 18:05
  Lerne Haastrup and Takesha Thomas do not accept advice of doctors to switch off ventilatorThe parents of a brain-damaged baby will ask the high court on Monday to allow an independent expert to assess their son’s likely quality of life, refusing to accept the advice of his doctors that his ventilator should be switched off.Isaiah Haastrup is eight months old, cannot breathe for himself and has cerebral palsy following a disastrous birth at King’s College Hospital. The trust accepts t
  
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• The 4 Best Foods For Your Pet, According To Veterinarians

  03-11-2017 17:45
  Even Fido deserves the best.
  
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• Recognising that mind and body are not separate opens door for new treatments

  03-11-2017 17:33
  As a trial for a radical schizophrenia treatment begins, the link between biological factors and some mental illnesses is becoming clearer than everDescartes’s notion of dualism – that the mind and body are separate entities – is wrong, but has proved surprisingly persistent, and until recently dominated attempts to understand mental illness. When the brain stopped working properly, a psychological origin was sought.Undoubtedly, life’s experiences and our personalities sh
  
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• This Woman Allegedly Bragged About Rubbing Used Tampons On Her Roommate's Backpack

  03-11-2017 17:27
  WTF?!
  
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• 3 Genius Ways To Use A Mini Band, According To Expert Trainers

  03-11-2017 17:01
  Get the most out of your workouts.
  
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• Radical new approach to schizophrenia treatment begins trial

  03-11-2017 16:52
  Exclusive: as evidence emerges that schizophrenia could be an immune system disease, two-year trial will use antibody drug currently used for MSBritish scientists have begun testing a radically new approach to treating schizophrenia based on emerging evidence that it could be a disease of the immune system.The first patient, a 33-year old man who developed schizophrenia after moving to London from Cameroon a decade ago, was treated at King’s College Hospital in London on Thursday, marking
  
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• Psoriasis and eczema sufferer's diet cure helps thousands

  03-11-2017 16:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Hanna Sillitoe, 38, from Manchester, found relief with an anti-inflammatory diet. She published a book to help others and has shared their amazing before and after pictures.
  
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• Diary of a GP: ‘You know you'll soon be notified of a premature death’

  03-11-2017 16:15
  A UK doctor tells of the intense pressure of inner-city practice – and the fear of leaving work alone after an ex-patient’s threatsIt’s supposed to be my day off, but instead I’m at home filing up to 50 laboratory results, x-rays, ultrasounds and scans before starting to sift through the 70 letters that have arrived in my email inbox. This is alongside getting the kids up, dressed and to school on time. Related: Health reform should start by looking at the first and last
  
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• Is your bathroom plughole making you sick?

  03-11-2017 16:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Dangerous 'biofilms' are easily created in the U-bend. These are considered to help fuel lethal bacteria to thrive, experts at the University of East Anglia found.
  
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• Since breaking up with my girlfriend, I worry I will never find another partner

  03-11-2017 16:00
  I am plagued by a sense that my loneliness might be terminal and that love and romance will pass me by. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy relationship with my girlfriend, whom I met as an undergraduate at university, ended a few years ago, largely because of mental health issues I was going through. It was my first and, to date, only relationship and lasted less than two years. I was devastated for a long time.Since then, I have recovered from the psychological problems I was having. I h
  
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• This Hilarious Photo Of Drew Barrymore Proves That Even Celebs Have Awkward Phases

  03-11-2017 15:59
  Drew at age 12 is all of us at age 12.
  
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• When Is the Beaver Moon?

  03-11-2017 15:50
  
  This article originally appeared on TravelAndLeisure.com.It's one of nature's most arresting sights: a full moon slowly rising in the east as the sun sets in the west. Yet few people bother to look at this highlight of the lunar month.November's full moon is known as the Beaver Moon, or sometimes the Hunter's Moon or the Frost Moon, and its rising this year is extra special because the moon will be closer to Earth than usual. This slightly bigger, brighter full moon is sometimes called a “
  
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• Persistent cramps are a symptom of colorectal cancer – but is a CURE on horizon? 

  03-11-2017 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  COLORECTAL cancer patients could soon benefit from a new, 100 per cent effective, nuclear medicine treatment, that doesn’t have any side effects.
  
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• Surrogate mother of 'twins' finds one is hers

  03-11-2017 15:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Jessica Allen became pregnant with her own child while she was carrying another baby as a surrogate.
  
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• This Mountain Climber Variation Burns Fat And Sculpts Muscle All At Once

  03-11-2017 15:00
  We dare you to give it a try.
  
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• The 7 Best Shoes For Nurses (And Anyone Else On Their Feet All Day)

  03-11-2017 14:48
  Keep your feet happy with these comfortable kicks.
  
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• Full statutory inquiry to be held into tainted blood scandal

  03-11-2017 14:40
  Inquiry into how contaminated blood infected thousands moved from health department to Cabinet Office after pressure from families
  An inquiry into how contaminated blood transfusions infected thousands of people with hepatitis C and HIV has been moved from the Department of Health to the Cabinet Office after pressure from families, Downing Street has announced.The inquiry, ordered in July after years of pressure from MPs and campaign groups, will be held as a statutory public inquiry under the 2
  
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• Lib Dem MP condemns outsourcing firm over GP trainee salary delays

  03-11-2017 14:33
  Norman Lamb calls for inquiry into Capita delays that have left doctors unpaid and in need of handouts from charitiesA former health minister has condemned the private firm that has left hundreds of GP trainees in the lurch by not paying their salaries.Norman Lamb demanded on Friday that the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, investigate how Capita had made blunders that have forced some young doctors to rely on charity handouts. Related: Hundreds of trainee GPs facing hardship as outsourcing firm f
  
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• 'I Lost 170 Pounds By Making These Gradual Changes To My Eating Habits'

  03-11-2017 14:30
  Kellie Brotherton says consistency was the key to her success.
  
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• Indian man who ate 639 nails is saved by doctors

  03-11-2017 14:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A video captures the moment doctors carried out an operation after the bizarre discovery. The 48-year-old schizophrenic patient in India regularly gobbled down nails and also eat soil.
  
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• Health reform should start by looking at the first and last days of life | Richard Vize

  03-11-2017 14:09
  Report proposes a new approach to primary care, putting people at the heart of everything the NHS doesWith ever-growing pressures from funding, staff shortages, demand and targets, is it possible to bring joy back to the healthcare workforce and put patients at the centre of their care? A group of healthcare leaders think it is.
  Frustrated by the difficulties of getting back to what really matters in healthcare but convinced there was a way forward, two dozen people from health and social care g
  
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• Acid reflux: Avoid THESE foods to prevent heartburn and leaky stomach acid

  03-11-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  HEARTBURN is a common condition, and is caused by stomach acid leaking out and heading back up the gullet. This condition, otherwise known as acid reflux, is triggered by certain foods, including cheese and oranges.
  
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