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• Anti-ageing for 2018: The FIVE trends you will be following next year to turn back time

  31-12-2017 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  ANTI-AGEING isn’t all about what cream you slather on your face. This is how you’ll be turning back time, both inside and out, in 2018.
  
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• Hunt plans helpline for children of alcoholics after Labour MP's story

  31-12-2017 18:17
  Health secretary praises bravery of his opposite number and draws up strategy including national helplineJeremy Hunt is drawing up a strategy including a new national helpline to support 200,000 children being raised by alcoholic parents, after being moved by the personal story of his Labour counterpart.The health secretary praised was he said was the extraordinary bravery of Jonathan Ashworth, who spoke out about an upbringing in which his father would fall over drunk at the school gates. Conti
  
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• How celebrities plan to boost their health in 2018

  31-12-2017 15:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Property expert Kirstie Allsopp, 46, says she will be meditating much more in 2018. She said: 'I need to do more to still my mind. I want to learn the power of “no” and do less.'
  
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• Giving up alcohol for a year salvaged my mental health | Ned Lamb

  31-12-2017 11:00
  My self-worth and confidence were shot to pieces, and something had to change. Quitting drink gave me some control over my lifeAs the clocks strike midnight on New Year’s Eve, I will finish a 12-month stretch of self-imposed sobriety. A year ago I had got to a point where I was drinking and smoking too much and – until the moment when I decided to quit – I was largely in denial about the impact it was having on my health. The scale of my drinking was normal for the social circl
  
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• The appliance of science: hope and fear in tomorrow’s world | Jim Al-Khalili

  31-12-2017 07:00
  As advances in gene editing, energy and AI gain momentum, Jim Al-Khalili predicts their impact on our futureMeteorologists can now reliably tell us if it is going to rain tomorrow, but wouldn’t dream of forecasting rain a year from now. Similarly, scientists find it much easier to predict what the world will look like in the next decade rather than in a century. This is because the technology of tomorrow relies on the science of today – it is only after we have understood a certain c
  
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• Gappy new year: our perception of the passage of time | Daniel Glaser

  31-12-2017 07:00
  Why does a boring party appear to last longer than it actually does? Daniel Glaser explains our emotional inner clockMany of us will spend this evening waiting for midnight to arrive. Some families adopt a global perspective to get them through an extended social engagement. For example, with London-based friends with young children, we celebrate midnight on Tel Aviv time (two hours earlier). Wherever you’re based, studying the internal experience of time presents neuroscientific challenge
  
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• Intensive exercise after a break can damage your knees

  31-12-2017 03:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Middle-aged people taking up exercise after a prolonged break were most at risk, said knee specialist Ian McDermott. Popular ‘interval training’ regimes are a particular danger.
  
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• Are you TATT (tired all the time)?

  31-12-2017 03:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Do you find yourself constantly lacking in energy? Are you TATT (tired all the time) – the medical acronym reported to appear on up to one in five of our GP case files?
  
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• Little Orla’s greatest gift – a family Christmas at home 

  31-12-2017 03:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two-year-old Orla Healy, from Luton, was diagnosed with DiGeorge syndrome – where a small piece of one chromosome is missing – while her mother was pregnant with her.
  
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• Shock new figures reveal hospitals with NO beds spare

  31-12-2017 01:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Almost every hospital in England has dangerously few free beds, doctors warned last night, with many so full in the run-up to Christmas that patients were stuck on trolleys in draughty corridors.
  
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• Fundraising Derbyshire women share cancer stories

  31-12-2017 01:28 via bbc.co.uk
  The women - who have all battled against cancer - are raising money for two charitable causes.
  
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• Pity the drunk tank users – they do deserve help | Barbara Ellen

  31-12-2017 01:03
  Society has created a need for ‘booze buses’ – from cheap alcohol to large measures to mental health issues – so compassion is the correct responseThe chief executive of the NHS, Simon Stevens, is monitoring how drunk tanks, aka “booze buses”, or mobile alcohol recovery units, some of which are already operating around the country, run on New Year’s Eve, to see if they should become a regular feature to take pressure off A&E departments. A national s
  
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• Doctors discover breakthrough which could end UTIs

  31-12-2017 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors say the vaccine, which uses harmless, inactivated versions of bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) to prime the body against them.
  
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• Hard exercise and heart operations DO go together

  31-12-2017 00:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The heart is a muscle and all muscles need exercise. Anyone with a stent is effectively being given a second chance that otherwise would not have existed. Use it, don’t lose it.
  
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