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• Diabetes drug could heart transplant organ rejection

  21-11-2017 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Queen Mary University of London successfully repurposed a diabetes drug to prevent rejection without the side effects of current immunosuppressive drugs.
  
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• Once-conjoined twins are going home for Thanksgiving

  21-11-2017 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Just five months after their 11-hour operation at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, once-conjoined twin girls Erin and Abby Delaney are heading home to North Carolina for Thanksgiving.
  
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• This Holiday Dessert Is The Next Best Thing When You're Too Lazy To Make Pie

  21-11-2017 23:00
  Who has time to make crust, anyways?
  
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• Weatherwatch: the winds that brought good or ill health

  21-11-2017 22:30
  Hippocrates claimed that the wind had different effects on the body depending on its direction – which remained an accepted truth for 2,000 yearsBefore the modern era, much of the interest in the winds focused on their impact on health rather than their value in predicting future weather. Hippocrates, writing around 400BC, claimed that the wind had different medical effects depending on the direction from which it blew. This was an accepted truth for 2,000 years.Hippocrates associated the
  
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• The Best Way To Actually Clean Your Butt

  21-11-2017 22:05
  From wiping to washing, here’s your complete guide to “down under” hygiene
  
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• 'This Foil Sheet Mask Left My Skin Visibly Glowing'

  21-11-2017 21:59
  It also seriously reduced the size of a pimple!
  
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• Researcher deliberately injected Americans with herpes

  21-11-2017 21:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A researcher illegally injected people eight Americans in Illinois with a live herpes virus in an unregulated experiment for a vaccine that is now backed by billionaire Peter Thiel.
  
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• Sugar industry blocked research linking sucrose to cancer

  21-11-2017 21:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The researchers at the University of California at San Francisco say that, had this paper been published in 1968, it would have led to scrutiny and even regulation of sugar by the FDA.
  
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• Doctor's diary This is Going to Hurt wins public vote for book of the year

  21-11-2017 21:00
  Adam Kay’s firsthand account, first published as a rebuke to the health secretary during the dispute with junior doctors, takes readers’ choice awardA doctor’s irreverent and heartbreaking diaries, published as a rebuke to the government in the pay dispute with junior doctors, has been voted the nation’s favourite book of the year. Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt came top in a poll of readers to win the Books Are My Bag readers’ choice award.Voted for by 40,0
  
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• Exactly How To Legally Change Your Name

  21-11-2017 20:47
  Whether you're getting married, divorced, or coming out as transgender.
  
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• Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims

  21-11-2017 20:41
  Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findingsSugar’s demise from childhood staple to public enemy can be seen everywhere. Chocolate bars are shrinking, sugary drinks are set to be taxed and our recommended daily sugar intake has been slashed in half. But the battle against sugar might have begun sooner if the industry hadn’t kept secrets to protect its commercial interests
  
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• ​The Best Sheet Masks For Your Skin Type, According To Experts

  21-11-2017 20:07
  ​Bring on the selfies.
  
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• Coffee warning: FIVE ways drinking a regular cuppa for YEARS could affect your health

  21-11-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  COFFEE keeps us energised and feeling good, but drinking too much in the long run can affect your immune system and leave you deficient in certain vitamins.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt accused of 'astonishing failure' as GP numbers fall

  21-11-2017 19:56
  NHS figures show drop of 1,193 family doctors in past year, despite pledge to increase numbers by 5,000 by 2020 The number of GPs in England has fallen sharply in the past year, despite a government pledge to increase the supply of family doctors by 5,000. The total number of full-time equivalent GPs working in England dropped by 1,193 in the year to September, figures from NHS Digital show.Related: NHS to spend £100m bringing in up to 3,000 GPs from abroadRelated: Record number of GP clos
  
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• Jeremy Hunt accused of 'astonishing failure' after GP numbers fall by 1,190

  21-11-2017 19:56
  NHS figures show drop of 1,193 family doctors in past year, despite pledge to increase numbers by 5,000 by 2020 The number of GPs in England has fallen sharply in the past year, despite a government pledge to increase the supply of family doctors by 5,000. The total number of full-time equivalent GPs working in England dropped by 1,193 in the year to September, figures from NHS Digital show.Related: NHS to spend £100m bringing in up to 3,000 GPs from abroadRelated: Record number of GP clos
  
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• Is the NHS being taken for a ride on drug prices? We need to know | Nils Pratley

  21-11-2017 19:53
  The competition watchdog is investigating, but we need a wider inquiry into pharmaceutical firms’ practicesThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has discovered a rich seam for inquiries – pharmaceutical companies allegedly gouging the National Health Service.Pfizer, together with a small UK company called Flynn Pharma, was fined £90m last December for “excessive and unfair” pricing of an anti-epilepsy drug. GlaxoSmithKline and two small firms were later hit fo
  
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• This 'Game Of Thrones' Star Is Defending The Show's Sex Scenes And Nudity

  21-11-2017 19:45
  She certainly tells it like it is.
  
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• NHS overcharged by millions for key drug, says watchdog

  21-11-2017 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  A 6,000% price rise in an essential thyroid drug led the NHS to overpay, the UK competition body says.
  
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• This 'Real Housewives' Star Encouraged Her Daughter To Flash Her Breasts On Snapchat

  21-11-2017 19:30
  And fans are NOT pleased.
  
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• The Story Behind Rihanna's Viral #FreeCyntoiaBrown Instagram Post

  21-11-2017 19:18
  "Something is horribly wrong."
  
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• This 'Black-Ish' Star Does The Most Adorable Thing With His Girlfriend

  21-11-2017 19:03
  It's official: We're smitten.
  
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• Conjoined Filipino twins to separate despite death risk

  21-11-2017 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Joy and Joyce Magsino, 10, from the Philippines, were born with angular frontal partial craniopagus. New images show the twins in hospital yesterday in preparation for surgery.
  
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• Vitamin D could prevent rheumatoid arthritis

  21-11-2017 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Birmingham build on past studies that show vitamin D strengthens the immune system, however, already-affected joints are 'committed' to swelling.
  
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• Misconception about lone mad scientist can be dangerous

  21-11-2017 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'lone genius' scientist stereotype could be dangerous, as the opinion of a lone commenter may be considered equal with that of hundreds of people who have made the subject their life's work
  
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• Self-harm has surged among teen girls, CDC data shows

  21-11-2017 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rates of teens' self-harm in the US, especially among girls, have been rising significantly in recent years, according to new data on emergency room visits from the CDC.
  
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• 5 Things To Know If You're Experiencing Pain Or Numbness In Your Buttcheeks

  21-11-2017 17:55
  It could be a sign of this common—and often misunderstood—condition.
  
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• Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms could be PREVENTED by taking vitamin D supplements

  21-11-2017 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  RHEUMATOID arthritis symptoms could be prevented by taking vitamin D supplements, as they could help to reduce the risk of inflammation and joint pain, it’s been revealed.
  
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• Best and worst foods to eat before you go to bed

  21-11-2017 17:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The foods you eat before going to bed can have a serious impact on the quality of your sleep. FEMAIL takes a look at those you should avoid, and those to eat to ensure a great night's slumber.
  
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• Black mould and condensation: Could your house be giving you lung disease?

  21-11-2017 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  MOULD and damp in the home could cause a number of respiratory diseases, including asthma, bronchitis and lung disease.
  
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• Impotency drug sales double in run up to Christmas

  21-11-2017 17:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pressure at Christmas can impact on men physically, explains an Oxford pharmacist. Stores expect sales of newly-launched tadalafil – the generic version of Cialis which lasts 36 hours – to rocket.
  
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• Mark Davies on how he nearly died from a heart attack

  21-11-2017 17:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John, the anaesthetist, told me when he came to see me on his Sunday round that I had just been ‘incredibly unlucky’, writes MARK DAVIES.
  
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• How to reduce high blood pressure: THESE drugs could help REDUCE reading

  21-11-2017 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  HIGH blood pressure is a common condition in the UK, but a group of cancer drugs could help get your reading under control.
  
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• Rise in prescriptions for GABA drugs is worrying experts

  21-11-2017 17:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  GABA drugs are increasingly being used to treat nerve pain such as diabetic neuropathy (a complication of diabetes), shingles pain and trigeminal neuralgia (severe facial pain).
  
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• All Of Amazon's Best Smart Home And Electronics Deals (So Far)

  21-11-2017 17:07
  These smart TVs, speakers, and other electronics are on sale starting November 17.
  
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• Is It A Parasite—Or Just A Stomach Bug? Here's How To Tell

  21-11-2017 17:05
  The symptoms are way more familiar than you might think.
  
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• This Is When You Should Eat Your Lightest And Heaviest Meals Of The Day

  21-11-2017 16:52
  If you're trying to lose weight, timing matters.
  
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• This isn’t the start of an NHS crisis – it’s far worse | Jan Filochowski

  21-11-2017 16:45
  The shortfalls are chronic, widespread and growing. I’ve turned failing health trusts around – I can see the service needs a modern-day Marshall planSaying the NHS was already in crisis, as I – and a few other Jeremiahs – did two years ago, meant going out on a limb. Today, hardly anyone says anything else, not least because virtually all our dire predictions have become realities. Even public officials responsible for running and inspecting the NHS, who couldn’t be
  
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• NHS forced to pay extra £34 million on common thyroid pill

  21-11-2017 16:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ontario-based pharmaceutical company Concordia, which manufacturers liothyronine tablets, increased the drug's price per pack by nearly 6,000 per cent from £4.46 to £258.19.
  
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• Scotland's minimum pricing for alcohol to take effect in May 2018

  21-11-2017 16:42
  Shona Robison announces plan to fix level at 50p a unit, aiming to reduce hospital admissions by 8,254 in first five yearsScotland’s minimum pricing policy for alcohol, to be fixed at 50p a unit, will come into force on 1 May 2018, the Scottish health secretary has announced.In a statement at Holyrood, Shona Robison said ministers were keen to introduce minimum unit pricing (MUP) as soon as possible and would be unveiling a consultation paper on its implementation next week. Related: Scotl
  
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• Should You Try A Natural Remedy To Treat Your Migraines?

  21-11-2017 16:22
  We're not just talking about weed.
  
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• Cancer risk factors are different for men and women

  21-11-2017 16:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cigarettes, red meat and alcohol carry a higher cancer risk for men than women. Women should be more wary of excess body weight than men, the American Cancer Society report found.
  
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• Madagascar plague death toll rises to 195 according to WHO

  21-11-2017 15:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some 2,267 people have been struck down by the 'medieval disease' in Madagascar, which is a rise of 64 casualties since the 2,203 cases reported on Friday. Ten countries are on 'high alert'.
  
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• Prediabetes symptoms: Condition on the rise could lead to DEADLY stroke - do you have it?

  21-11-2017 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  PREDIABETES - the stage before a type 2 diabetes diagnosis - is on the rise, and could lead to increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
  
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• Minimum alcohol pricing in Scotland to start in May

  21-11-2017 15:47 via bbc.co.uk
  The move will raise the cost of the strongest, cheapest alcohol by setting a minimum price of 50p-per-unit.
  
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• The Exact Abs Workout That Alison Brie Swears By For A Toned Core

  21-11-2017 15:30
  She got her "Glow" bod with good old-fashioned hard work.
  
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• Automated checkouts 'miserable' for elderly shoppers

  21-11-2017 15:15 via bbc.co.uk
  "Intimidating" checkouts and a lack of seating are "shutting out" the elderly from shops, a charity says.
  
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• Anti-ageing skincare: Office workers risk premature ageing doing THIS, expert warns

  21-11-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  ANTI-AGEING skincare routines should include suncream, an expert has warned, as office workers are at risk of being ravaged by harmful computer rays. The light is just as damaging as ultraviolet rays - the skin cancer-causing light from the sun.
  
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• Ray James: ‘I want those still in care to tell their truths to people like me’

  21-11-2017 15:00
  Six years after the Winterbourne View abuse scandal, Ray James’ new job is to ensure people with learning disabilities can move on from long-stay unitsRay James wants to feel uncomfortable. It’s the best way, he thinks, to make health and care leaders take action to break the logjam that keeps almost 2,500 people with learning disabilities and autism in specialist hospitals in England six years after the Winterbourne View scandal. The Panorama exposé of systematic abuse of pat
  
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• Drug firm Concordia overcharged NHS with 6,000% price rise, says watchdog

  21-11-2017 14:50
  CMA accuses Canadian firm of overcharging by £100m on thyroid drug with price per pack rising from £4.46 to £258 in 10 yearsConcordia International, the Canadian drug company, has overcharged the NHS by more than £100m in the past decade for a life-changing thyroid drug, according to Britain’s competition watchdog.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had provisionally found that Concordia had “abused its dominant position to overcharge the NHS&r
  
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• Toddler slowly going BLIND from cancer has treatment

  21-11-2017 14:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zailian Kaipeng, from India, was in 'constant pain' since he was two months old. His family thank the public after his swollen eyes have already drastically reduced due to treatment.
  
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