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Does Medicare pay for Alzheimer's drugs? The answer is complicated and changing

There are no drugs or treatments to cure Alzheimer’s disease, but emerging drugs may slow disease progression.

Fortune

Deadly virus now 'highly likely' to hit UK in new climate change warning

A potentially fatal virus that is killing almost half of patients is now 'highly likely' to hit the UK alongside other illness spread by insects, that are 'marching north' because of climate change.

Daily Record

Dengue fever warning to Brits heading off to popular holiday resorts this summer

Brits planning to travel abroad are being warned about the risks of potentially deadly dengue fever - a disease spread by Asian tiger mosquitoes and which has been detected in the likes of Ibiza and southern France

Daily Mirror

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Measles and whooping cough outbreaks in South Africa: a sign of low vaccination coverage, experts warn

The concentrated global effort to use vaccination as a public health intervention began in 1974. Since then, vaccination has changed our lives. Worldwide, in the decades 2000-2020, childhood vaccination led to the reduction of deaths in children under 5 by 50% to 5.4 million deaths per year. Vaccination currently averts…

The Conversation

People with any of these 21 health conditions may be due up to £691 each month

There are now 3.3m people claiming PIP with thousands more on Adult Disability Payment.

Daily Record

Study links inflammatory bowel disease to increased risk of stroke

IBD, which causes chronic inflammation of the intestines, includes Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and unclassified inflammatory bowel disease.

The Independent UK

“Viking Disease” Might Have Actually Come From This Ancient Human Cousin

New research finds that the genetic origins of Dupuytren's contracture were inherited from Neanderthals.

Inverse

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I suffer from the world's most beautiful disease - and also the most expensive to treat

My name is Antonio and I suffer from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA, for friends). My life expectancy was only a few years when I was born, almost half a century ago. And all because I “got” a rare, neurodegenerative disease, which is among the genetic diseases with the highest associated…

The Conversation

Districts in Kerala told to ramp up monsoon disease surveillance

The Hindu

Heavy drinking linked to lower muscle mass – here’s what you need to know

Heavy drinking has long been associated with various health problems, including cirrhosis of the liver, cancer and heart disease. But our latest study has found that these aren’t the only issues that excess drinking can cause. We found that heavy drinkers had lower levels of muscle mass than those who…

The Conversation

Ernakulam has a fourth of State’s dengue cases

Nearly one-fourth of dengue cases reported in the State over the past two weeks are in Ernakulam, indicating the alarming spread of the vector-borne disease in the district.

The Hindu

Coronation Street star shares extra emotion behind on-screen death story amid own heartbreaking personal loss

Jane Hazlegrove has shared how she has been struggling with grief amid the soap's hard-hitting Motor Neurone Disease storyline

Manchester Evening News

IISc. researchers design fluorogenic probe to detect enzyme linked to early stage of Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, results in memory loss and compromises cognitive abilities in many people beyond the age of 60

The Hindu

Alzheimer's could be detected by taste and smell long before signs of memory loss

A new research study conducted by UK scientists is looking into a new smell and taste test that could help detect Alzheimer's disease long before its initial symptoms.

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Daily Mirror

Barbara Windsor's ex-husband Ronnie Knight - who was infamously jailed for £6m robbery - dies

Barbara Windsor's ex-husband Ronnie Knight, who was jailed for a £6m robbery has died, aged 89 after battling with Parkinson's Disease

Salon

Toxic air requires new social contract

Last week’s hemispheric wildfire smog exposed just how unprepared we are for the climate crisis

Nottingham Post

New smell and taste test for Alzheimer's could detect disease long before memory loss

It could help detect those who need further tests

Tribune News Service

Mandy Cohen as CDC director? Republicans in Congress tell Biden she’s ‘unfit’

North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd, Rep. Dan Bishop and other Republicans are citing Dr. Mandy Cohen’s track record during the COVID-19 pandemic in opposing her as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Republicans grill outgoing CDC director as she prepares to exit

WASHINGTON — During what’s likely to be her last appearance before skeptical congressional Republicans on Tuesday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky once again asked for more data and workforce authorities — and, once again, she was sharply dismissed.

Dublin Live

Christy Dignam RIP: Aslan and President Higgins lead tributes as legendary singer dies

The Aslan frontman died earlier today following a decade long rare blood disease

The Hindu

Health dept. urges people to desist from self-medication for viral fevers

The Health department has warned people to desist from self-treatment as this is the season of viral fevers, which could be vector-borne diseases like dengue and Zika, leptospirosis or respiratory infections like Influenza.

Inverse

Do You Get Sick All the Time? These Two Factors May Influence Your "Immune Resilience"

An international group of researchers found immune resilience as a factor that influences life span and the development of numerous infectious diseases.

Daily Record

Eating a 'rainbow diet' may prostate cancer risk, according to scientists

Research has shown that mean with prostate cancer had low levels of specific minerals, vitamins and pigments that are found in certain food groups.

Manchester Evening News

'I was set on a round of golf, but my wife forced me to go to the doctors instead' - Man City legend Mike Summerbee reflects on cancer battle and recovery

Prostate Cancer UK have launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the disease, with help from Manchester City legend Mike Summerbee.

Daily Mirror

Man left with life-threatening syndrome after tick bite means he can no longer eat meat

Craig Smith was diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome brought on from a tick bite - he is one of many Americans to get a positive diagnosis of the potentially life-threatening disease

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