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Alarming 17-fold spike in number of Brits left undiscovered after dying at home: Experts blame massive rise on ‘societal breakdown’ Experts said ‘concerning’ trend showed the rise of social isolation among Brits READ MORE: Babies of non-English parents died or harmed by language barriers Societal breakdown has led to a massive…
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Excess consumption of red meat, whether processed or not, is linked to a greater risk for developing type 2 diabetes. This association was confirmed by a new study published last month in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a data analysis of nearly 217,000 people who were monitored for three…
Older adults are willing to up the fiber in their diet, but need help, a new study has shown. Researchers at the University of Reading have suggested an effective strategy for improving dietary fiber intake among the UK’s aging population. Currently, most people in the UK eat less fiber than…
Reviewed Potty training, getting kids to sleep and toddler tantrums are just some of the challenges parents of young children face. And four in five parents in a new national poll say they go to the same place to discuss such parenting issues: social media. Nearly half of parents rate…
The approval of two malaria vaccines—the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine in 2021 and the R21/Matrix-MTM vaccine in 2023—will help control, and eventually help eradicate, a disease that causes more than 600,000 deaths annually. Nearly 2 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have been vaccinated with the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine. It will be…
Contrary to the commonly held view, the brain does not have the ability to rewire itself to compensate for the loss of sight, an amputation or stroke, for example, say scientists from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University. Writing in eLife, Professors Tamar Makin (Cambridge) and John Krakauer…
The Biden administration’s first major step toward imposing limits on the pharmacy benefit managers who act as the drug industry’s price negotiators is backfiring, pharmacists say. Instead, it’s adding to the woes of the independent drugstores it was partly designed to help. The so-called PBMs have long clawed back a…
Time flows in a continuous stream—yet our memories are divided into separate episodes, all of which become part of our personal narrative. How emotions shape this memory formation process is a mystery that science has only recently begun to unravel. The latest clue comes from UCLA psychologists, who have discovered…