Health
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Don’t ever let houseflies sit on your food, researchers say
Scientists have warned people not to eat food that has been left out at picnics to reduce their risk of contracting illness. New research published...
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Kelly Yeoman: Young woman drowning in her own poo
Can you imagine how it would feel to have your body so full of your own excrement that you were slowly suffocating? Yes, what you...
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Researchers make world’s smallest tape recorder from bacteria
In a ground-breaking development, researchers have modified a strain of bacteria found in the human gut to create what is essentially the world’s smallest data...
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Cinnamon helps burn fat cells, finds new research
Scientists at the University of Michigan are claiming that cinnamaldehyde – the essential oil found in cinnamon which gives the spice its distinctive flavour –...
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Three Coffees a Day Brings More Health than Harm, According to Study
Drinking a few cups of coffee a day reduces health risks, experts have claimed. Researchers from the University of Southampton and the University of Edinburgh...
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Italian Doctor Has Performed a Human Head Transplant
The world’s first successful human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse. In an 18-hour operation in China controversial scientist Sergio Canavero, dubbed...
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Two cases of rabies confirmed near Superstition Mountains
Public Health officials in Pinal and Maricopa Counties said the Arizona Department of Health Services State Public Health Laboratory has confirmed at least two cases...
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Brain training game ‘is first to cut risk of dementia’, says new study
A computer game that reduces peoples’ dementia risk by 29 percent is the first to prevent the condition, new research by the University of South...
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Chinese man puts a lock into his penis and has it stuck in bladder (Picture)
A man from south-east China reportedly had a padlock stuck in his bladder after inserting it into his penis. The small lock was said to...
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Bodybuilder Rich Piana Snorted Pre-Workout Powder (Death Report)
Rich Piana, the Instagram famous body builder who died in August at the age of 46, was fond of snorting caffeine-laden pre-workout powder, TMZ reports....
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Sex rarely causes hearts to stop, finds new research
Although it’s a staple trope in film and television, a new study suggests that having a serious heart attack is actually highly unlikely to happen...
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Tearful widow gets to see late husband’s face again (Watch)
Sixteen months after groundbreaking transplant surgery gave a Wyoming man a new face after living a decade without one, he met the woman who had...
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Researchers discover potential treatment to stop glaucoma in its tracks
Researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Toronto have discovered that naturally occurring molecules known as lipid mediators have the potential to halt the...