Turkish man sets Covid record by testing positive for 14 straight months
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A Turkish man has tested positive for Covid at least 78 times over the past 14 months, leaving him the unwanted record…
Statins side effects are overblown and less common than feared: As few as 6% of patients taking the cholesterol-busting pills will suffer muscle pains, finds largest ever study
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Side effects from statins are overblown and much less common than thought, the largest study of its kind suggests. Read More
Two glasses of wine have more calories than a BURGER: Bottle of plonk can contain up to 59g of sugar, analysis shows
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Most of us try to stick to lean, nutritious meals when watching our weight. Read More
Love drugs are coming and they bring big ethical problems with them
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Reading Time: < 1 minute LOVE is unpredictable and complex. After spending many years researching its layers, I remain in awe of how it engages every mechanism…
Scientists cure HIV in a woman using umbilical cord blood
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A US patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV…
One dead and several hospitalised after Champagne spiked with ecstasy
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Reading Time: < 1 minute One man has died and eight have been hospitalised after a three-litre bottle of Moët & Chandon Champagne was spiked with ecstasy…
NHS long Covid mobile testing units could be rolled out in areas worst hit by pandemic
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A trial of the testing programme in Essex is focusing on spirometry, a diagnostic test for lung conditions such as chronic obstructive…
Pharmaceuticals in rivers threaten world health - study
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Pollution of the world’s rivers from medicines and pharmaceutical products poses a “threat to environmental and global health”, a report says. Read…
Potentially toxic levels of pharmaceutical drugs found in rivers across the world
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Potentially toxic levels of pharmaceutical drugs were found in a quarter of river locations that were examined across the world, a…
Risk for myocardial infarction increases among people with HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The risk for myocardial infarction has increased in recent years among people with HIV in the United States, data presented at the…