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The most underrated dystopian thriller on HBO Max ignores a simple scientific reality

'Maze Runner's experiment seems to mimic real-life rodent mazes — but not very convincingly, experts say.

Inverse

14 symptoms of pancreatic cancer you’re most likely to ignore

A pancreatic Cancer UK specialist nurse outlines easy-to-ignore signs of the disease

The Independent UK

Scots mum fears 'Corsa Cannibals' targeted car after front of vehicle ripped off

Mum-of-three Hayley, from Edinburgh, uses the car to take her eldest son who has Crohn’s disease to hospital for vital treatment.

Daily Record

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Family devastated as man dies from rare disease 'nobody has ever survived'

Jason Tolson died on New Year's Day from a rare condition that has no cure

Wales Online

US Approves New Drug to Treat Alzheimer's Disease

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a highly anticipated new drug designed to slow cognitive decline in patients in mild and early stages of Alzheimer's disease. The FDA approval of the drug, Leqembi, also known as lecanemab, comes just days after the regulatory agency was harshly criticized…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Man died suddenly from rare disease on New Year's Day leaving family heartbroken

Jason Tolson succumbed to Anti-MDA5 Dermatomyositis at the age of 30, with his grieving father in law saying: 'The prognosis is very bleak because it is so rare they don't know how to treat it'

Daily Mirror

Mum saved son's life after donating kidney to stranger whose family gave one back in return

Dan Hogben's mother donated one of her organs to a stranger, whose family donated one back for her son

Wales Online

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China reports three COVID deaths for January 6

China reported three new COVID-19 deaths in the mainland for Jan. 6, compared with five deaths a day earlier, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday.

Reuters

The FDA approved the first Alzheimer’s drug that may really work. A Penn physician explains why you probably can’t get it, yet

The FDA on Friday authorized the use of the Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab, the first drug clearly shown to slow the progress of the debilitating brain disease.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

RSV recedes and flu peaks as a new COVID variant shoots 'up like a rocket'

RSV and the flu appear to be receding in the U.S., but COVID is on the rise, new data suggests, driven by holiday gatherings and an even more transmissible omicron subvariant that has become dominant.

WEKU

Warning wombats on brink of being critically endangered as burrows wash out, diseases spread

In an effort to protect wombats during the floods, one animal conservationist has built burrows for the species as it struggles with habitat loss, disease and pneumonia.

ABC News

Man, 30, died suddenly after catching rare disease 'nobody has ever survived'

'The prognosis is very bleak because it is so rare they don't know how to treat it'

Manchester Evening News

FDA approves Alzheimer's drug that appears to modestly slow disease

An Alzheimer's drug that removes the substance amyloid from the brain has received a conditional approval from the FDA. A large study found the drug decreased the loss of thinking and memory by 27%.

WEKU

New hope for Alzheimer’s sufferers as FDA gives fast-track approval to experimental drug

The study also showed that Leqembi carries a risk of brain swelling and bleeding

The Independent UK

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Alzheimer’s drug that slows disease progression approved by FDA

U.S. health officials have approved a new Alzheimer’s drug that modestly slows the brain-robbing disease

Axios

FDA grants fast-track approval to experimental Alzheimer's drug

The FDA approved lecanemab, which has shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

The Independent UK

Alzheimer's drug that modestly slows disease OK'd by FDA

U.S. health officials have approved a new Alzheimer’s drug that modestly slows the brain-robbing disease

Daily Mirror

Rob Burrow set to unveil new fundraising racehorse Beep Beep Burrow at Doncaster

The former rugby league star, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019, will be at Doncaster to see the horse named after him make its debut

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Daily Mirror

Man, 30, dies on New Year's Day from rare disease that no one has EVER survived

Jason Tolson had so much of his life still ahead of him when he died on New Year's Day after a battle with a disease of which there are not thought to have ever been any survivors

Daily Record

Man suddenly dies of rare disease 'nobody has ever survived'

Jason Tolson passed away on New Years Day after a battle with an aggressive immune disorder.

Daily Record

DWP provides up to £156 each week for people with these 70 neurological conditions

Thousands of people across the UK are receiving between £24.45 and £156.90 every week through PIP.

The Conversation

China's COVID situation is dire – but it shouldn't pose a big risk to other countries

China is currently in the midst of a severe wave of COVID infections and deaths. We don’t know exactly how bad it is because of significant gaps in official reporting, but by all indications, things are dire. News reports suggest hospitals and mortuaries are overflowing.

Edinburgh Live

East Lothian locals issued with urgent advice after bird flu outbreak confirmed

Issuing a message to those in the area on social media on Friday (January 6), officials in East Lothian said a number of birds had been affected locally by the disease.

The Independent UK

World’s first vaccine for honeybees gets US government approval

Vaccine is incorporated into the royal jelly by worker bees who feed it to the queen bee

Dynamite News

Researchers Find Two Protein Pathways Downregulated In Postnatal Heart

Published on Thursday in Stem Cell Reports, researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School discovered two signalling pathways that are downregulated in human hearts after birth. Read on for details:

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