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• Women want more babies than they will have

  13-02-2018 23:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As fertility rates decline and more couples opt to remain childless, the 'ideal' number of children people want stays above national fertility rates. But the growing gap may be a good thing, an exert says.
  
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• Google search results for abortion services promote anti-abortion centers

  13-02-2018 22:04
  When users seek facilities for the procedure, Google Maps often presents ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ that discourage abortionsGoogle searches for abortion services direct users to anti-abortion centers across the US, according to a new report that has sparked concerns from reproductive rights’ groups. In response to the question “Where can I get an abortion near me?”, Google Maps frequently suggests “crisis pregnancy centers”, which are often non-medical
  
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• Chemicals found in food packaging linked to weight gain

  13-02-2018 21:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study led by Harvard’s School of Public Health looked at the affect of chemicals called perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) on weight regulation after weight loss.
  
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• Kidney stones cases are on the rise, especially in women

  13-02-2018 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study by the Mayo Clinic looks at the prevalence of kidney stones in more than 10,000 residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota, over three decades from 1984 to 2012.
  
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• Gigi Hadid's Hashimoto disease explained

  13-02-2018 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Model Gigi Hadid, 22,took to Twitter Sunday to say Hashimoto's disease, a thyroid condition, is responsible for her weight fluctuating over the past few years.
  
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• 5 Myths About Sexual Assault That Just Aren't True

  13-02-2018 20:46
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• Crystal Whitley on life support after two strains of flu 

  13-02-2018 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Crystal Whitley, 35, of Mullin, Texas, is on life support after contracting two strains of the flu virus. She was diagnosed with sepsis, double pneumonia, and MRSA,
  
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• 'Punished for a crime I hadn't committed'

  13-02-2018 20:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Joanna is one of at least 9,000 non-smokers in the UK diagnosed with lung cancer every year.
  
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• Going vegan can prevent overweight people from diabetes

  13-02-2018 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Following a plant-based diet can boost insulin sensitivity in fat people, found researchers at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington DC.
  
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• Transgender woman becomes first in the world to breastfeed

  13-02-2018 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 30-year-old woman, who is not identified, told Mt Sinai's Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery that her partner was pregnant but did not wish to breastfeed, and she hoped to try instead.
  
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• Screening for ovarian cancer is not recommended

  13-02-2018 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Although the notoriously hard-to-spot disease kills 14,000 a year as it is often diagnosed too late, a panel has found that routine screening would lead to too many false positives.
  
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• Here's how to fix body pain by adjusting how you sleep

  13-02-2018 19:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts John de Caestecker from University Hospitals Leicester and Chartered physiotherapist Sammy Margo give their recommendations for the healthiest ways to sleep.
  
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• Medical test will reveal if you're in love or 'faking it'

  13-02-2018 18:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Fred Nour, a psychologist based in Mission Viejo, California, said scientists will soon develop a non-invasive procedure to accurately determine whether or not someone is truly 'in love'.
  
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• Enoch Powell failed to introduce tests for cervical cancer | Letter from Sir Harold Evans

  13-02-2018 18:40
  Letter from Sir Harold EvansThe thalidomide families are right to protest against any honouring of Enoch Powell (It isn’t just racism that should bar Powell from a blue plaque, Letters, 12 February). As I relate in My Paper Chase, he also would do nothing as minister of health to introduce tests for cervical cancer in the early 1960s.The gynaecologist Mr Stanley Way at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, had proved how thousands of lives would be saved, but he was ignored until w
  
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• How Pitcairn made history on votes for women | Brief letters

  13-02-2018 18:39
  Votes for women | Obtaining the pill | Henry Moore sculpture | Asma Jahangir | Ballet reviews | EvolutionIn 2013 Pitcairn islanders celebrated 175 years of women’s right to vote (Letters, 10 February). Pitcairn may be small and remote but the islanders are justifiably proud of this contribution to world history.
  Liz Timms
  Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland• In 1972, I wasn’t able to have an evening appointment at my local family planning clinic for the pill as I wasn’t mar
  
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• Scientists find 'switch' that puts weight on after diet

  13-02-2018 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team in Melbourne, Australia believe they have found the protein 'switch' that causes the body to pack on the pounds after a diet, and this could have implications for the worldwide obesity crisis
  
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• Twelve-year-old boy nearly killed by toy ball bearings

  13-02-2018 18:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twelve-year-old Freddie Webster, from Yorkshire, almost died after swallowing several ball bearings he and his friends were using as make-believe earrings
  
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• Two-Month-Old Baby Allegedly Suffers 35 Broken Bones; Foster Father Charged

  13-02-2018 18:18
  
  A 26-year-old foster father is facing neglect and battery charges in Indianapolis, where he is accused of squeezing the limbs of a 2-month-old girl. Doctors allegedly determined that she had more than 35 broken bones.A probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE confirms the charges against Kyle Rice, who investigators say admitted causing the infant’s injuries.The arrest comes just weeks after the premature baby, born with traces of marijuana in her system, was left in Rice’s care,
  
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• Kanye West and Jay-Z blamed for rise in use of MDMA

  13-02-2018 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of South Florida researchers name-checked the three stars on the back of their new study which shows hip-hop music is coaxing black listeners into using the drug.
  
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• Texas conjoined twin girls separated after nearly 2 years

  13-02-2018 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Surgeons in Houston, Texas successfully separated Anna and Grace Richards's shared heart tissue, diaphragm and liver in last month, hospital officials announced Monday.
  
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• US drug companies accused of being 'cheerleaders' for opioids

  13-02-2018 17:18
  Senate committee scorches Purdue Pharma and other firms‘These financial relationships were insidious, lacked transparency’The five biggest companies making prescription opioids have been accused by a US Senate committee of spending $10m on patient advocacy and medical groups to encourage use of the addictive drugs, which are at the root of a public health crisis in America. Related: Meet the Sacklers: the family feuding over blame for the opioid crisisRelated: When it comes to the op
  
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• Oral pregnancy test has been linked to birth defects

  13-02-2018 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Aberdeen found that when embryonic zebrafish are given components of the test, the animals display significantly reduced movement.
  
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• Campaigners hit back at Donald Trump’s criticism of NHS

  13-02-2018 15:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The post by NHS Million, which attracted fierce reaction on social media, revealed a woman in the US was charged $39.35 (£28) for skin-to-skin contact with her newborn baby.
  
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• Here's how to spot smartphone addiction and how to detox

  13-02-2018 15:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The topic of smartphone addiction has received an increasing amount of attention in recent years as research shows that Americans check their phones 80 times per day on average.
  
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• Pakistan gang 'stole spinal fluid from women'

  13-02-2018 15:04 via bbc.co.uk
  The gang obtained the fluid from more than 12 women, including a teen, to sell on the black market.
  
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• 5 commonplace supplements to revive flagging libido

  13-02-2018 14:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Losing libido is a natural thing for people suffering from overwork, tiredness, or just the hormonal changes. Nutritionist Rick Hay from Healthista reveals what supplements can help
  
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• New antibiotic has literally been unearthed

  13-02-2018 14:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from The Rockefeller University in New York found an antibiotic family, known as malacidins, can kill several 'superbugs' without causing any side effects in rats.
  
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• IQ of friends age 11 changes our intelligence as adults

  13-02-2018 14:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Florida International University in Miami found that spending time with intelligent children at age 11 improves our IQ later in life because we absorb their knowledge and skills.
  
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• Non-smoker's lung cancer

  13-02-2018 14:01 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC legal correspondent, Clive Coleman, says his sister's diagnosis came too late to save her.
  
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• NHS denies 1 in 3 dementia patients best standards of care

  13-02-2018 13:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This means tens of thousands miss out on counselling sessions, home visits from specialist nurses and activities such as dance and art.
  
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• Arthritis DMARD drugs could half dementia development risk

  13-02-2018 13:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cheap drugs that are often used to treat rheumatic conditions like arthritis may also be halve the change of developing against dementia, researchers have shown in a recent study
  
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• Marijuana eases pain in over 90% of elderly patients

  13-02-2018 13:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel found that among those over 65 suffering discomfort, 93.7 per cent report improvement after six months of taking cannabis.
  
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• Motor neuron disease tears through Welsh family

  13-02-2018 12:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A family from Clydach, Wales, have lost five members of their family to motor neurone disease. However, Mandy Duguid is determined to aid in funding for research into the disease
  
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• Teenager dies from meningitis - despite not having rash

  13-02-2018 12:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lewis Hilton, 19, from Greetland, near Huddersfield, was killed by meningitis W - a deadly strain that he wasn't protected against. He was given a jab against four other strains in September.
  
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• One of Britain's oldest nurses fears a privatised NHS

  13-02-2018 12:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Aileen Coomber, of Worthing, West Sussex, has lived through some the greatest changes in medicine, but she's worried about the increasing privatisation of the NHS.
  
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• Share your NHS stories and memories with the BBC

  13-02-2018 11:52 via bbc.co.uk
  As the NHS turns 70 we want to hear from doctors, nurses, porters and patients, past and present about your memories and experiences
  
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• 'I missed serving my country': the military veterans joining the NHS

  13-02-2018 11:22
  Step into Health works with 50 trusts to match the skills of former military personnel to careers in the health serviceRichard Lloyd had dedicated 28 years to the armed forces when he moved with his family to Cumbria to run a guesthouse. But after four years he found something was missing. “I missed the cut and thrust of being in a big team. I missed that camaraderie, and doing service for the country,” he says. Lloyd had spent his working life stationed in Iraq and assisting with pe
  
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• Specialist units not GPs should control pain killer use

  13-02-2018 11:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors are doling out opioids such as tramadol and oxycodone in huge numbers, driving an escalating crisis in addiction to prescription drugs.
  
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• Woman claims a gastric band 'destroyed her life'

  13-02-2018 10:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In September 2013, Hazel Orchard, 58, fromthe Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, paid £10,000 for a laparoscopic gastric bypass after decades of unhealthy eating left her unable to wash or dress herself.
  
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• When will men live as long as women? By 2032, say experts

  13-02-2018 10:00
  Women in developed countries have historically outlived men. But the life expectancy gender gap is closingIn developed countries, the gender gap has long favoured women by one measure at least: life expectancy. Throughout the past 100 years women have significantly outlived men, on whom war, heavy industry and cigarettes – among other things – have taken a heavier toll. Related: Life expectancy gap between rich and poor US regions is 'more than 20 years'Related: South Korea’s i
  
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• Curb GP role in controlling painkiller use

  13-02-2018 09:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors are doling out opioids such as tramadol and oxycodone in huge numbers, driving an escalating crisis in addiction to prescription drugs.
  
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• More than 12 million US women are living with depression

  13-02-2018 09:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eight percent of all Americans suffer depression, and women are twice as likely to struggle with the mood disorder as are men, according to new data released by the CDC.
  
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• Doctors told not to hug patients in case they complain

  13-02-2018 08:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors are being urged not to comfort patients with a hug in case they complain. They are being warned to ‘err on the side of caution’ as a well-meaning embrace ‘could easily be misinterpreted’.
  
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• Prescription of opioid drugs continues to rise in England

  13-02-2018 07:05
  Doctors give patients drugs such as tramadol despite risks of addiction and ineffectiveness when treating chronic painThe prescription of opioid drugs by GPs in England is steadily rising, especially in more deprived communities, even though they are potentially dangerous and do not work for chronic pain, a new study reveals.The study shines an alarming new light on the legal use of opioids in England; potentially inappropriate yet sanctioned by doctors. It also reveals a north-south divide. Nin
  
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• New antibiotic family discovered in dirt

  13-02-2018 04:51 via bbc.co.uk
  The compounds are called malacidins and can kill several stubborn infections, including superbug MRSA.
  
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• Cold open water plunge may provide instant pain relief

  13-02-2018 04:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Doctors suggest a short, sharp cold water swim may offer an alternative to strong painkillers.
  
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• Decades-old dissection shows details of the nervous system

  13-02-2018 02:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A nervous system that was dissected in 1925 and kept intact is on display at a museum in Missouri. It is one of only four in the world that has been kept in one piece upon dissection.
  
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• Beauty supplements promising young skin waste of money

  13-02-2018 02:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Beauty supplements that promise younger, firmer, glowing skin may be a waste of money, a study claims. British Nutrition Foundation researchers say a balanced diet is more important.
  
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• What makes us happy?

  13-02-2018 02:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists are researching how life's ups and downs affect our mental health.
  
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• Orthorexia: My 'healthy food' eating disorder

  13-02-2018 02:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Here's what extreme "clean-eating" did to one woman.
  
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