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Study shows making love several times a week can cut levels of homocysteine This is a harmful chemical in the blood which can trigger cardiac problems Benefits women less because sexual arousal isn't as dependent on blood flow Researchers called on doctors to advise at-risk male patients to have more sex Regular sex really is the best medicine for preventing life-threatening heart disease – if you're a man, scientists have found. New research shows making love several times a week can slash levels of homocysteine, a harmful chemical in the blood which can trigger cardiac problems. It's thought men getting sex often have better circulation and healthier blood vessels. This is crucial for preventing a build-up of homocysteine. But scientists say women benefit much less because sexual arousal is less dependent on having a healthy blood flow, which is a key factor in keeping homocysteine under control. Researchers behind the study called on doctors to advise m...

Worries about North Korea and terrorism aside, Sen. Bob Corker said Thursday "our biggest threat is ourselves." Corker told CNBC his top concerns are passing a health-care bill and avoiding an "almost inevitable" fiscal disaster. "We have $20 trillion in debt and we're continuing to do things that make that worse every day," Corker said on " Squawk Box ." "And I believe unless something abruptly changes very soon, we will have a fiscal calamity, and it's going to make all the other ills that we're dealing with in the nation pale." Lawmakers will meet again on Monday after their Fourth of July break. A top priority is dealing with the Republicans' attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Corker blames some states that are concerned with Medicaid cuts outlined in the bill as "holding us hostage" from ever being able to pass a bill. On the numbers side, Corker said spending would increas...

To state the obvious: Partisan video clips are not designed to make the other party look good. There’s an art to these things. You compile the worst moments by the other team, or by an opponent, and try to make them go viral. But a strange, flailing campaign by the Republican National Committee to demand a Democratic fix for the Affordable Care Act goes unusually far in misrepresenting what the opposition party is doing or saying. The RNC’s push began on Wednesday with a series of tweets at Democrats such as Hillary Clinton, demanding they put up plans of their own. Clinton responded, predictably, by linking to the ACA plan she ran on in 2016, which included fully funding insurance subsidies and letting younger people buy into Medicare. Unbowed, the RNC released a compilation of Democrats being asked by talking heads why they would not work with Republicans to fix the ACA.  Most analysis of the video  has been that it’s simply bizarre. As Republicans know, ...

At an event Wednesday night, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was met by about 150 protesters who oppose the Senate's efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. On a hot evening, they stood outside a hotel in McKinney, a north Dallas suburb, shouting "shame on Ted" and "save Medicaid." The by-invitation, town hall-style event was held one day after the senator's appearance in McAllen was  disrupted by protesters  concerned about health care as well as immigration. Cruz is holding several town halls across Texas during the current congressional recess; he will also be in San Antonio and Austin this week. The audience Wednesday night was mostly veterans who are friendly to the senator. The event was sponsored by the conservative group Concerned Veterans For America. There were just four to five questions from the audience and all were screened in advance. The Texas senator spent much of the event advocating for more health care choices for veterans...

(CNN) Sen. John Hoeven is the latest Republican senator to come out against party leaders' plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, sharing his reservations at a roundtable in North Dakota this week. According to the  Bismarck Tribune , Hoeven participated in a discussion at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine on Wednesday. There, he told constituents that he "doesn't support the (health care) bill as it stands," though the Tribune noted that Hoeven also expressed confidence that the bill could be improved, and cited premium costs as an area of concern. Hoeven's reservations add him to  a growing list of Republicans  who are withholding their support, further imperiling legislation that already faced long odds. He is at least the tenth GOP senator to say he'll oppose the bill in its current form. With a slim majority in the Senate, Republicans can only afford to lose two of their 52 senators for the bill to pass under reconciliation. Hoev...

Real household disposable incomes in the UK are falling at their steepest rate since 2011, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. The amount that families have to spend - after tax and benefits are taken into account - fell by 2% in the first quarter of 2017, compared to 2016. The ONS said  that was the biggest decline for more than five years. It added that the main reason for the fall was the rise in inflation, which hit 2.3% in the year to March. The real household disposable income measure is adjusted for inflation, meaning that rises in the cost of living result in lower disposable income. Over the same period,  wages rose  by just 2.1%. The fall in the value of sterling since the Brexit vote has increased the cost of imports, including food, so boosting inflation. Real household income per head has now fallen for three months in a row - the first time that has happened since 2013. The TUC said the government needed to create better-pa...

The European Union and Japan have formally agreed an outline free-trade deal. The agreement paves the way for trading in goods without tariff barriers between two of the world's biggest economic areas. However, few specific details are known and a full, workable agreement may take some time. Two of the most important sectors are Japanese cars and, for Europe, EU farming goods into Japan. Analysis: Damian Grammaticas, BBC News The EU and Japan have done two deals for the price of one: a trade deal and a complementary "Strategic Partnership". One will create a major free-trading economic bloc, the second will see them co-operate in other areas like combating climate change. Both are "in principle" deals, some details to be agreed, so there could still be hurdles. But the signal this sends, bringing two of the world's biggest economic powers together, is unmistakeable. EU-Japan negotiations began in 2012 then stalled. It was Donald Trump's ...