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• Mother-of-four killed by the flu after refusing Tamiflu

  30-01-2018 23:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amanda Franks, 38, was killed by the flu on January 17 after being diagnosed just three days prior. The mother-of-four from New Hampshire declined taking Tamiflu due to the side effects.
  
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• 'I Used To Be A Bodybuilder—Until I Got An Ostomy Bag'

  30-01-2018 23:38
  One woman shares how major surgery helped her discover a new way to work out.
  
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• Will Butt Implants Really Give You The Bigger Booty Of Your Dreams?

  30-01-2018 22:55
  Butt augmentation procedures are on the rise—but are they totally overrated?
  
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• Does Farting Burn Calories?

  30-01-2018 21:54
  A popular internet rumor claims each toot torches 67 calories.
  
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• Former 'Glee' Star Mark Salling Found Dead In Apparent Suicide

  30-01-2018 21:02
  Mark was due to be sentenced to prison on child pornography charges in March.
  
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• Anti-diarrhea drug linked to soaring rate of deaths

  30-01-2018 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Loperamide, sold as Imodium, slows down the movement of the gut to make stool less watery using an opioid, which induces a high akin to OxyContin.
  
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• Suffering a blow to the head raises the risk of dementia

  30-01-2018 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Umea University, Sweden, discovered the devastating disease is six times more prevalent among victims of a traumatic brain injury, after analysing data of 995,000 people.
  
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• Do You Really Have The Flu—Or Is It Something Else?

  30-01-2018 19:42
  There's another virus that mimics many symptoms of the flu.
  
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• Sexist Trolls Told This Record-Breaking Teen Skier to “Make Me a Sandwich”—So She Fired Back

  30-01-2018 19:37
  
  Jade Hameister recently made history—and a mean ham and cheese sandwich.Earlier this month, the 16-year-old Australian skier took a record-breaking trip to the South Pole and posted what could very well be the most epic clap back of all time. It all started in 2016, when Hameister did a TEDx Talk in which she shared her story about becoming the youngest person to ski to the North Pole from anywhere outside the last degree.Her talk attracted thousands of views&mdash
  
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• NHS leaves one in four mothers alone during labour or childbirth

  30-01-2018 19:09
  Care watchdog says NHS England maternity care improving but standards still not being metWomen’s experience of NHS maternity care is improving but almost one in four mothers are still being left alone during labour or birth, a major new survey reveals.More mothers were satisfied with how they were looked after when they gave birth in England, in-depth research by the Care Quality Commission, the NHS care watchdog, has found.Continue reading...
  
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• Where are the most successful areas for quitting smoking?

  30-01-2018 19:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cumbria had the lowest rates of successful quitters, while Slough had the highest percentage across England for those were were able to quit, according to new NHS data.
  
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• Life expectancy increases are slowing around the world

  30-01-2018 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from John Hopkins University found that between 1950 and 1959, the average person's life expectancy increased by 9.68 years compared to 1.89 years between 2000 and 2009.
  
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• Bill Gates reveals his father suffers from Alzheimer's

  30-01-2018 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The billionaire Microsoft co-founder revealed that his father, 92, suffers from Alzheimer's. Gates has invested $100 million in research to find a cure for the neurodegenerative disease.
  
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• Your brain signals really DO sync up with your friends

  30-01-2018 18:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research by Darmouth College in New Hampshire found similarity in neural activity patterns between friends, with the similarities even extending to friends-of-friends.
  
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• Super Bowl 2018 stadium preventing spread of the flu

  30-01-2018 18:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Super Bowl coordinators are disinfecting attractions at the Super Bowl Experience at US Bank Stadium in Minnesota leading up to the big game this Sunday.
  
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• 10 Things You Need To Know About The 'Yoga Twins' Murder Trial

  30-01-2018 18:29
  This story is twisted.
  
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• Doctor reveals when you should seek help for your headache

  30-01-2018 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Michael Munger, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, warned that headaches - considered the worst kind of pain - can be a sign of brain tumours and aneurysms.
  
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• Kim Kardashian Is Posting Tons Of Nudes And All We Can Think Is: Damn, That Takes Confidence

  30-01-2018 18:12
  What do you think of her barrage of controversial pics?
  
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• Your February Sex Horoscope: It's Time To Explore Your Sexuality

  30-01-2018 18:00
  Get ready for some extra lovin'.
  
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• Map shows the worst places in the UK for misdiagnoses

  30-01-2018 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: NHS England had 7,629 successful claims brought against it during this period. The largest spike was seen in 2016/2017 when there were 1,534 awards.
  
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• California woman caught meningitis from CANNABIS

  30-01-2018 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 48-year-old woman in California developed potentially fatal meningitis after smoking marijuana that had been contaminated with a fungus from growing in Central California soil.
  
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• Pocket-sized scanner gives 'complete look' of human genome

  30-01-2018 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Breakthrough 'MinION' device, developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, brings us closer to the day when family doctors will order up genome scans during a regular check-up.
  
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• Just promising NHS money 'not good enough'

  30-01-2018 17:21 via bbc.co.uk
  More reform - not just extra money - is needed to ensure the NHS stays relevant, says Lord Darzi.
  
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• Amazon joins up with US firms to enter healthcare sector

  30-01-2018 17:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Amazon, JP Morgan and Berkshire are looking at ways to subsidise healthcare costs for US employees.
  
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• Scientists blast five weight loss supplements

  30-01-2018 17:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Here, in a piece for The Conversation, three nutritional scientists based at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, have blasted the five popular supplements.
  
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• 7 Kitchen Gadgets That Make Healthy Meal Prep A Breeze

  30-01-2018 17:00
  You don't have to spend hours on Sunday getting meals ready for the week—as long as you have these healthy kitchen tools on hand.
  
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• Pakistani baby girl has brain bulging out of her neck

  30-01-2018 16:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zareena Mangro, from Pakistan, was born with occipital encephalocele. This is a rare condition in which brain fluid bulges out of the skull bone. She was born with a small golf ball mass that grew rapidly.
  
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• Amazon, JPMorgan and Buffett launch new healthcare company

  30-01-2018 16:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Warren Buffett announced the new plan on Tuesday in a press release where he described current healthcare groups as 'tapeworms' and the cost of healthcare in America as 'ballooning.
  
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• Rochdale ambulance worker's petrol paid for by stranger

  30-01-2018 16:36 via bbc.co.uk
  The ambulance worker says he was "blown away" by the random act of kindness.
  
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• Amazon and Warren Buffett to create 'reasonable cost' healthcare company

  30-01-2018 16:31
  Business giants partner with JP Morgan to help employees find care‘The ballooning costs act as a hungry tapeworm on the US economy’Amazon is diving into healthcare, teaming up with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the New York bank JP Morgan to create a company that helps their US employees find quality care “at a reasonable cost” and tackle the “hungry tapeworm on the American economy”.The business giants offered few details on Tuesday and said t
  
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• Soya milk is the healthiest alternative to cow's

  30-01-2018 16:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from McGill University found that out of the four most popular non-dairy alternatives, soy milk has the greatest nutritional profile due to its high levels of anti-cancer compounds, known as isoflavones.
  
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• Utah father-of-five math teacher given just weeks to live

  30-01-2018 16:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mac Frischknecht, 56, is a beloved math teacher from Utah who is suffering from a rare and incurable brain disease that has begun wiping his memory and taking over cognition.
  
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• Mother-of-three battles flesh-eating bacteria from the flu

  30-01-2018 16:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Christin Lipinski, 37, of Arizona, has had 10 surgeries to remove 30 percent of the infected tissue in her body from a flesh-eating bacteria that she contracted after catching the flu.
  
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• This Is How The 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Will Affect Your Horoscope

  30-01-2018 16:00
  It's a BIG deal.
  
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• Russian mother gives birth to a 13lb 4oz baby

  30-01-2018 15:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unnamed mother had the baby without anymedical assistance in the small town of Dagestankiye Ogni in south-west Russia. The woman is now recovering in hospital.
  
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• Singer who performed for Obama given five months to live

  30-01-2018 15:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Destinee McEwen, of Detroit, Michigan, collapsed during a high school performance, she was given pain medication and sent her home. Years later she was diagnosed with a rare heart cancer.
  
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• Halo Top Just Announced 7 New Dairy-Free Flavors

  30-01-2018 15:30
  Vegans, rejoice!
  
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• Girl 'almost' cured of epilepsy after eating avocados

  30-01-2018 15:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leafy Liu's parents were worried after her fits became more frequent and severe and medication failed to stop them. They tried the keto diet which is high in fat and found it worked.
  
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• Wearing goggles could help you sleep and lose weight

  30-01-2018 15:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Specs are no longer just for seeing with — there are now a range of high-tech smart ‘goggles’ to treat a host of conditions, from diabetes to vertigo. 
  
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• 'Yoga Girl' Rachel Brathen: 'A Fight With My Husband Changed My Entire Life'

  30-01-2018 15:00
  Rachel says it inspired her to open up in a whole new way.
  
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• Why Instagram-Famous Trainer Alexia Clark Doesn't Post Bikini Photos

  30-01-2018 15:00
  "It has never been about 'look at my body.'"
  
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• Massy Arias: 'My Abusive Relationship Left Me Severely Depressed'

  30-01-2018 15:00
  The 29-year-old trainer says fitness helped her through a terrible time.
  
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• How The Tone It Up Girls' Karena Dawn and Katrina Scott Became The O.G. Fitness Influencers

  30-01-2018 15:00
  "When we worked out, we laughed, we fumbled, we joked; we made it a date, we'd go grab a glass of wine after class."
  
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• Anna Victoria: 'I Used To Eat Fast Food Three Times A Day'

  30-01-2018 15:00
  The Instagram-famous fitness star says Instagram helped her feel connected to a healthy community—and motivated her to change.
  
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• ​We're Proclaiming March 1 #NationalWorkoutBuddyDay!

  30-01-2018 15:00
  Get ready to celebrate (and tag!) your go-to workout buddy.
  
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• Boots slash price of morning-after pill across the UK

  30-01-2018 14:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The move by Boots was described as a 'good news' for British women who were paying up to five times as much for the emergency contraception as their European peers.
  
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• Motivational music does not improve athletic performance

  30-01-2018 14:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Germany have found that listening to motivational music does not improve overall performance during sports activities or exercise, despite its common use in these scenarios.
  
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• At last, an abortion referendum. Women’s protest has won over Irish politicians | Emer O’Toole

  30-01-2018 14:15
  Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin have shifted from anti-abortion stances. If we can convince them, we can convince our families and friendsOn Monday night, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar confirmed that Ireland will hold a referendum on abortion in late May. The electorate will be asked if they want to repeal or retain the eighth amendment to the constitution, which effectively bans terminations. In the case of repeal, people will also be asked to approve an addition to the constitution allowing th
  
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• People know when they are dying and prefer to be alone

  30-01-2018 14:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Glenys Caswell, a senior research fellow from the University of Nottingham, many people dislike being fussed over when they are unwell, with death being no exception.
  
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• Trump may be many things but he’s not a ‘nutter’ – and I should know | Clare Allan

  30-01-2018 14:09
  I’ve been sectioned and know plenty of ‘nutters’ but none is a bombastic bully like Trump. Politics and psychiatry don’t mixThere is no question that Donald Trump makes many people, myself included, profoundly uncomfortable. His politics are repulsive enough, but it’s more the way he conducts himself personally. Above all, it’s the apparent belief that he can bulldoze his version of reality through clear evidence to the contrary – that, a year on from hi
  
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