Watching TV during painful procedures could reduce the amount of medication needed and speed up recovery by distracting the brain Headsets are being used in hospitals to simply allow patients to watch TV Doctors say this can reduce amount of medication and speed up the recovery Distracts patients in procedures that are under a local anaesthetic and sedation Until recently, the […]
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Amazon is a veritable treasure trove of everything a person could need or want. Books? Check. Groceries? Check. Sex toys? Check. Though it may seem seem strange to buy sex toys from the same place you stock up on milk (or at least, on kitchen appliances), Amazon’s called the “everything store” for a reason. Plus, where else offers overnight shipping on […]
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Private companies have won £15BILLION of NHS contracts since 2015, research reveals amid political row over ‘health service for sale’ Private firms awarded contracts worth £3.6bn last year alone, up 89% since 2015 GMB report comes after Jeremy Corbyn blasted Tories for trying to sell off NHS He claimed they put the health service on table at post-Brexit talks with […]
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Fascinating scans of six patients reveal how humans can survive with just HALF a brain The patients aged 20-30 had a hemispherectomy as a child to treat epilepsy Scientists found their brain had rewired to pick up the slack of the missing half Some connections were even stronger than normal, to the team’s shock The patients also behave normally in […]
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Fox News Flash top headlines for Nov. 15 Fox News Flash top headlines for Nov. 15 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com A rare syndrome caused a 44-year-old man’s eye to eerily resemble the flaming Eye of Sauron from “The Lord of the Rings.” The case came to light when the man, who was not identified in a […]
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Electric toothbrushes should NOT be used as sex toys because they could cause injuries, gynaecologist warns after hearing women have come up with novel use for them Anne Henderson, an esteemed UK gynaecologist, said to avoid the practice She warned neither the handle nor the head are suitable for pleasuring yourself Using the gadgets for sexual pleasure is an ‘interesting […]
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Vitamin D is created by the body from direct sunlight on the skin when being outdoors.From around late March/early April to the end of September, most people should be able to get all the vitamin D they need from sunlight. But between October and early March people don’t get enough. READ MORE Vitamin D deficiency symptoms: The sign in your […]
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If you need a flu shot or to get up to date on other vaccinations, then the solution may be as close as your local drugstore. Pharmacists are making a major contribution to the “immunization neighborhood,” says William Schaffner, MD, an infectious disease specialist and professor of preventive medicine and health policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in […]
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Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and other institutions in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and Singapore, have identified 1,178 biomarkers in men’s genomes—the complete set of genetic material inherited from one’s parents—that predict how an individual person’s prostate cancer will grow. The finding suggests that predicting how a person’s cancer will evolve may lie in their […]
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In a large-scale study, scientists from the Robert Koch-Institute have been exploring for years, as it is to the health of children and adolescents in Germany. New analyses show, in particular, how often minors of pain are plagued, what is the role of migration background and family income for the health play, and at what age children are particularly accident-are […]
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