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Animals and humans have the ability to follow their own position in space through self-motion cues, even in the absence of any other sensory information. “If you get up at night and want to find your way to the bathroom in the dark, you need—in addition to knowing the arrangement of your own home—a mechanism that tracks your own position […]
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Vitamin B12 is responsible for many important roles in the body, such as keeping the body’s nerve and blood cells healthy and helping to make DNA – the genetic material in all cells. Falling short of the required amount of B12 can therefore have a pronounced effect on the body. There are many reasons why some may develop B12 deficiency […]
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Alzheimer’s disease is more common in rural Appalachian Ohio communities than in other rural areas in the state—raising concerns about access to early, specialized care in a region where many residents face struggles getting the medical care they need, a new study has found. Researchers from The Ohio State University examined 11 years of federal Medicare data, ending in 2017, […]
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Kanye West has returned home to be with his family. A source tells PEOPLE that the rapper, 43, flew home to Los Angeles before the weekend to reunite with wife Kim Kardashian West and their four children: daughters North, 7, and Chicago, 2, and sons Saint, 4, and 14-month-old Psalm. "He is still busy working on his music and presidential […]
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‘What’s that smell? Something’s burning.’ I can still hear the panicked words of the chef running into the kitchen, as I stood red-faced, having not noticed the potatoes in the oven were burning. I was 17 and muddling my way through a weekend job in the kitchen of a village pub. It was the first of a series of realisations […]
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Prancing around the TV studio, moving from one contestant to another, it’s hard to believe Paddy McGuiness suffers with any health problems – but he does. Taking to social media platform Instagram, Paddy shared a picture of himself pointing towards a bandage on his shoulder. He explained in the caption: “Nursing a poorly shoulder today. I had an ultra sound […]
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UK-based UX design and development agency, Sigma, has been selected by health app evaluation and advisor organisation, ORCHA, to improve usability and accessibility of their health apps. ORCHA provides review, accreditation services, reports and advice to developers, detailing what can be done to better meet the needs of health and care providers, including connecting them with specialists in the fields […]
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DR MAX PEMBERTON: To hell with Covid! Children MUST go back to school This past week has been an emotional roller-coaster ride for A-level and GCSE students. I have every sympathy with them, caught up in a maelstrom of infighting as politicians, exam regulators and teachers play the blame game over the results fiasco. But while I don’t doubt the […]
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(HealthDay)—The Trump administration has blocked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from regulating a wide swath of laboratory tests, including ones for the coronavirus. The new policy, which was posted Wednesday and is strongly opposed by the FDA itself, stunned health experts and laboratories because of its timing, the Washington Post reported. The change could result in unreliable coronavirus tests […]
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The brain plays a major role in controlling our blood glucose levels. In type 2 diabetics this glucose metabolism brain control is often dysfunctional. Genetic components for this phenomenon have so far remained elusive. A group of scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) have now shown in the Journal of Clinical Investigations that […]
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