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What is brain-eating amoeba and why does it kill

Only five people are known surivors of rare disease

The Independent UK

Belfast teenager diagnosed with brain tumour after her symptoms were put down to stress

"I trusted the medical expertise and advice we were given"

Belfast Live

South Tyneside couple inspire prostate cancer memorial in Newcastle's Eldon Square

Avid NUFC supporter Doug Blythe lost his life to prostate cancer in 2017

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Two Covid strains spreading rapidly across UK as 'vaccine protection wanes'

Professor Denis Kinane, a world-leading immunologist and founder of Cignpost Diagnostics, says mandatory face masks must be reintroduced and has urged people to be careful when out in public.

Daily Record

'People think I'm pregnant but I've got a hereditary disease which has left my kidney functioning at 9%'

Katie Banks, 47, from Swansea has just a 4% chance of finding a match for a kidney transplant

Wales Online

BA.5 Covid-19 infections: What it means for the pandemic and booster shots

The new subvariant is responsible for a massive wave of new infections.

Inverse

Covaxin may help in checking virus load: study

Vaccine likely to reduce the disease severity

The Hindu

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PIP provides up to £627 each month to more than 130,000 people with respiratory conditions

There are 24 main respiratory conditions including asthma being supported by the DWP.

Daily Record

The Daily Biotech Pulse: FDA Signs Off Cancer Therapy Trials For NexImmune, Omega Therapeutics, Endo To Develop Rare Hereditary Skin Disease Candidate

Here's a roundup of top developments in the biotech space over the last 24 hours:

Benzinga

Dikembe Mutombo Has Long Battled Disease in His Native Country. Then COVID-19 Hit His New Home.

The longtime NBA star died of brain cancer Monday. We are republishing this story from 2022, honoring his many humanitarian efforts.

Sports Illustrated

Is monkeypox a pandemic? An epidemiologist explains why it isn’t likely to become as widespread as COVID-19, but is worth watching

Monkeypox is the latest global public health threat to make headlines. Most people who contract the monkeypox virus experience flu-like symptoms and a blistery rash that lasts two to four weeks, but a small percentage of infected people develop sepsis or other severe and potentially fatal complications.

The Conversation

In monkeypox failures, echoes of COVID

The first monkeypox case in the United States was confirmed in mid-May

Salon

Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 Covid strains spreading across the UK amid fears of jab protection wearing off

Cases have been rising over the last few weeks

Nottingham Post

UK Covid infections rise by almost 30% in a week

Around 3.5 million people thought to have disease in first week of July

The Guardian - UK

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Daily Mirror

Teenage girl whose GP said she had 'growing pains' diagnosed with horror rare disease

Abria Lewis, 15, visited her GP after she started complaining of pain in her right upper arm and shoulder when she was 10, but the doctor said it was probably just growing pains

Evening Standard

What is viral haemorrhagic fever? Health experts investigate unexplained nosebleed disease

There have been 13 cases recorded so far, and three people have died.

The Independent UK

Covid warning over symptom of new strain that affects sufferers at night

‘Isn’t that strange?’ scientist says as he shares different disease caused by BA.5

Daily Mirror

Two Covid strains running rampant across UK amid fears vaccine protection waning

A world-leading expert tells The Mirror face masks and testing should return, as he warns the 'troubling' summer surge in cases driven by the immunity-defeating Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 Covid strains is merely the calm before the storm

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Lisa Jarvis: More COVID boosters are coming, but who will take them?

Once a week, typically on the day that the Centers for Disease Control updates its COVID data tracker, I send my dad a text: “Did you make an appointment to get your booster?”

The Hindu

Central team rushed as Kerala reports first monkeypox case

Central team has been rushed to the State to adopt appropriate public health interventions

Financial Times

A new ‘miracle’ weight-loss drug really works — raising huge questions

Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy uses a hormone to regulate hunger. It’s wildly effective, but is it misguided?

WEKU

The omicron subvariant dominating U.S. COVID-19 cases is more vaccine-resistant

The BA.5 strain represented 65% of cases from July 3 to 9, according to data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

The Independent UK

Heart disease risk rises in men as they lose Y chromosome with age, study finds

Studies examining Y chromosome loss have ‘great promise’ for development of personalised medicines, scientists say

The Hindu

India reports over 20,000 new COVID-19 cases, 47 fatalities

Active cases now comprise 0.32 per cent of the total infections.

Reuters

In China's Wuhan, cholera-causing bacteria in turtles strikes nerve

Detection in the Chinese city of Wuhan of a bacteria that caused cholera in a student and was separately found in samples from softshell turtles at a food market has struck a sensitive nerve with ordinary Chinese people, with some relating it to COVID-19.

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