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The best of the long read in 2024
Nicholas Saunders was a pioneer of the counterculture with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a desire to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a total reworking of the way Britain eats.Doctors are pushing the boundaries of…
Revisited: Are the Oldest People in the World Really That Old? – podcast
In this September episode, Madeleine Finlay speaks with Dr. Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford, who recently won an Ig Nobel Prize – awarded for scientific research that…
Vigorous exercise can harm your heart, experts reveal… but tell us what to do instead
Exercising ten hours a week in the gym, walking long distances with a weighted backpack, cycling intensively for long distances... would you be willing to exercise that hard in the hope of living a long and healthy life?A new trend among…
The incredible breakthrough that could cure type 1 diabetes and other immune disorders. Experts…
The immune system is our unsung hero when it comes to staying healthy and disease-free.Without us even noticing, a defense mechanism is mounted 24 hours a day against malicious organisms (everything from cold and flu viruses to harmful…
Going out with friends can help you live longer, aging experts claim, while loneliness could have…
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High school student finds cancer-fighting bacteria in goose poop as part of a class project
A Chicago high school student discovered a cancer-fighting drug from an unlikely source. Camarria Williams, 13, came across some goose poop in a neighborhood park and eagerly picked it up to be analyzed at the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery…
The flu and RSV outbreak is canceling Christmas events and closing schools early before the holidays
More than a dozen states have been upgraded to “high” or “very high” levels of respiratory virus activity, with some forced to close schools and cancel holiday events. Oregon and Louisiana are seeing very high levels of flu, Covid, RSV and…
NHS begins world’s first trial of AI tool to identify risk of type 2 diabetes
The NHS in England is launching a world-first trial of a 'game-changing' artificial intelligence tool that can identify patients at risk of type 2 diabetes more than a decade before they develop the condition.More than 500 million people…
Dermatologist reveals why some people have stinky body odor while others have NONE
Bad body odor could be in your DNA, dermatologists revealed. Although almost everyone sweats, it turns out that your genes can determine how much you sweat and how smelly you become. Heather Kornmehl, a dermatologist from Texas, informed…
VA will restart implementations as part of the modernization of the EPD
More than 18 months after the Veterans Administration halted new deployments of its Oracle electronic health records system to make critical improvements to the EHR and improve patient safety at five VA health systems, the agency announced…