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• Amber, 27, proves being disabled is no barrier to love

  06-01-2018 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amber, from Kent, was left paralysed down her right side and meant she was unable to speak for a month. She was forced to abandon her psychology degree.
  
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• You don’t have to be poor to be hooked on drugs or alcohol but it helps

  06-01-2018 19:15
  The Tories have excluded public health from their ‘ringfenced’ NHS spending, and dismissed addictions as diseases of choiceDry January ought to be the season to talk about drunks. According to what passes for the public health debate, unfortunately, most of society thinks there’s little to say.If you drink yourself to death, while taking care along the way to abuse your family, friends and unlucky strangers who cross your path, that’s your fault. You believed Ernest Hemin
  
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• DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR on your vegan detox

  06-01-2018 16:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  January is the month when we all go a bonkers and throw our biology textbooks out of the window to convince ourselves that the answer to our festive over-indulgence is a ‘detox’.
  
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• Max Zeumer reveals top tips to get your gym groove back

  06-01-2018 15:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fitness tops the list ofpost-New Year's goals almost every year, but starting - and sticking with it - is harder than working out for many. New York trainer Max Zeumer shares back-to-the-gym tips.
  
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• Proton beam therapy cancer treatment centre opening in UK

  06-01-2018 11:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The first high-energy proton beam therapy centre run by the NHS is soon to open in Manchester.
  
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• 'Game changer' cancer treatment centre coming to UK

  06-01-2018 11:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The first high-energy proton beam therapy centre run by the NHS is soon to open in Manchester.
  
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• My charity sees the toll of job losses on mental health - we struggle to meet demand

  06-01-2018 11:40
  I work in one of the poorest areas of the north east. At a time when we’re needed most, we’ve seen our funding cut by 60%As chief executive of a small mental health charity in one of the poorest areas of north east England, I don’t sleep well. We deliver frontline recovery services in Redcar & Cleveland and in 2011 our funding was cut by 61% in one fell swoop. We used to get £350,000 from the local authority; now we manage on £135,000. Meanwhile, mass unemployme
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the deaf parent

  06-01-2018 10:00
  I worry I’m stopping my child from having the life yours haveWhat’s going on? Am I missing out on something? Or should I say on something else: all the opportunities for small-talk that might make me feel more comfortable and confident in asking if your child wants to come to ours for tea, because our kids are friends. I am bamboozled. I feel the opening gambit has been lost.My audiologist is great. He tries everything, but it’s about how the brain processes the reduced am
  
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• Alcohol-free gin and tonic that won't break Dry January

  06-01-2018 09:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Over five million people in the UK took part in Dry January last year. In response big alcohol manufcaturers are bringing out 'dry' versions of their products to tempt those shunning booze.
  
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• Weight loss exercises for arthritis: Try these three easy moves to tighten up abs

  06-01-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  WEIGHT loss regimes can be difficult to follow at the best of times, but attempting some exercises while having arthritis can be virtually impossible. If you’re looking to tighten up your abs, pain-free, here are three moves for you to try.
  
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• 'Australian flu': spread prompts handshake ban in Northern Ireland churches

  06-01-2018 03:54
  Catholic diocese of Down and Connor suspends ‘sign of peace’ during services and calls for sanitary measures around holy communionA Catholic diocese in Northern Ireland has suspended the “sign of peace” handshake in its masses due to the risk of infection from a strain of the flu first seen in Australia in the southern hemisphere’s 2017 winter. At least 170,000 cases were confirmed at the end of the Australian winter, more than twice as many as in 2016. Health offic
  
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• The world's most obese man's attempt to lose weight

  06-01-2018 02:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Juan Pedro Franco was declared the heaviest man alive in 2017, but he has lost weight since.
  
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• Get your gym groove back: Trainer reveals top tips

  06-01-2018 02:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fitness tops the list ofpost-New Year's goals almost every year, but starting - and sticking with it - is harder than working out for many. New York trainer Max Zeumer shares back-to-the-gym tips.
  
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• Former college football player believes he has CTE

  06-01-2018 02:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Drew Bouché, 38, from Wisconsin played football from eight years old until college and suffered countless concussions. He experiences daily headaches and other systems of CTE.
  
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• Proton beam cancer treatment to start in Manchester in 2018

  06-01-2018 01:43 via bbc.co.uk
  The first NHS-run unit of its kind in Manchester will improve treatment for cancer patients.
  
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• Rare case of sexually transmitted Zika reported in LA

  06-01-2018 01:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a first for the California county, a Los Angeles woman has contracted Zika by having sex with a man who was infected with the virus. It is rarely sexually transmitted, and women are at worse risk.
  
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• Eye cancer cluster affects dozens in North Carolina

  06-01-2018 01:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nearly two dozen cases of ocular melanoma have been diagnosed in and near Huntersville, North Carolina, and researchers have not found any environmental or genetic link.
  
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