I’m stuck in here with nowhere to sit outside as I can’t walk to the park anymore. I need my mum staying with me and she’s on the couch – there’s no spare bedroom. I just feel trapped up here. Every morning they have the diggers digging the road. I’veContinue Reading
Glioblastoma is one of the most poorly survived cancers. April stock/Shutterstock Glioblastoma is the most common and deadliest form of brain cancer. Patients face a bleak prognosis – the average survival after diagnosis is between 12 and 15 months. And just 6.9% of patients survive beyond five years, making itContinue Reading
Health authorities have announced the first case of Clade1b mpox has been identified in the UK. Since January 2024, there have been around 1,000 deaths out of 33,000 suspected cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Centre for Disease Control. So far sustained transmission has only beenContinue Reading
Parents are trusting ChatGPT for medical advice over actual doctors and nurses, a new study found. Researchers at the University of Kansas also found that parents also say AI-generated text is credible, trustworthy and moral. “When we began this research, it was right after ChatGPT first launched — we hadContinue Reading
The first UK case of a potentially deadly strain of the mpox virus has been detected in London. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the risk to the UK population from the clade 1b mpox strain “remains low”. The person involved had been on holiday in Africa and travelledContinue Reading
Federal officials announced Wednesday that the H5N1 bird flu virus had been found in a pig for the first time in the US. The pig was found on a backyard farm in Crook County, Oregon, the Department of Agriculture reported. The animal, which is one of five on the farm,Continue Reading
Transcranial direction current stimulation may help improve depression symptoms in hard-to-treat cases. ArtemisDiana/ Shutterstock Up to a third of people diagnosed with depression do not respond to antidepressants or therapy. In such cases, patients may be prescribed neuromodulation therapy, which modulates brain activity in order to reduce depression symptoms. OneContinue Reading
Weekend bouts of exercise may be just as good for you as working out during the week when it comes to slowing down mental decline, researchers say. The findings, which come a month after another study found being a weekend exercise “warrior” cuts the risk of developing more than 200Continue Reading
More than eight million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. About 1.25 million people died of TB last year, the new report said, adding that TB likely returned to beingContinue Reading
“People have forgotten what life is all about,” Robert De Niro’s character says in the film Awakenings after being revived from the shut-down state he had been in for 30 years. “They’ve forgotten what it is to be alive.” Based on a true story told by Dr Oliver Sacks, AwakeningsContinue Reading
