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New Alzheimer's drug slows cognitive decline – and may be available as early as next year

Lecanemab is the first drug to help improve the symptoms of Alzheimer’s by slowing the disease. These are very promising results, although the only data we have at the moment is from the drugmaker’s press release.

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Six lesser-known Parkinson's symptoms as Jeremy Paxman opens up about diagnosis

The former Newsnight star has revealed his doctor spotted his Parkinson's disease while watching him on University Challenge.

Daily Record

Heart disease: Sitting down for too long can increase risk, expert warns

Reducing the time you spend sitting down is 'just as important' as regular exercise and can help slash your risk of developing heart disease, claims nutritionist Daisy Whitbread

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What is Parkinson’s disease? Jeremy Paxman says it ‘makes you wish you hadn’t been born’

The former BBC journalist is one of thousands to put his name to a charter calling on the Government to do more to support those with the disease

Evening Standard

Swansea City legends unite to raise funds in memory of Lenny Johnrose

A star-studded event will take place this month to raise funds for Swansea's Former Players' Association and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Wales Online

Ice bucket challenge helps to fund FDA-approved motor neurone medication

Millions of dollars raised during the ice bucket challenge craze of 2014 have been used in the development of a new FDA-approved treatment.

The New Daily

WHO to request cholera vaccines for Haiti, expects further spread

The World Health Organization is setting up tents to treat cholera in Haiti and will also request a supply of oral vaccines against the disease that has unexpectedly returned to a country paralysed by a gang blockade, a WHO spokesperson said.

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Mayo Clinic expert offers perspective on experimental Alzheimer's disease drug

According to drugmakers Eisai and Biogen, a Phase 3 clinical study on a potential new Alzheimer's disease drug shows promise. The study findings show that the drug, lecanemab, reduced clinical decline of people with Alzheimer's disease by 27% compared with a placebo after 18 months of treatment.

Tribune News Service

This pharmacist is taking a loss to share the monkeypox vaccine. Here’s why

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Pucci’s Pharmacy co-owner Clint Hopkins heeded his conscience and the Sacramento County public health team’s call for help with vaccinating people at high-risk of contracting monkeypox.

Tribune News Service

French health chiefs call for at risk citizens to get second Covid booster jab

A top French health official on Monday urged millions of people to get a second booster shot against the coronavirus as the country braces itself for another wave of the disease.

Radio France Internationale

NT government releases plan to address banana freckle disease outbreak in the Top End

Julie-Ann Murphy and Alan Petersen, whose Northern Territory farm is one of 42 properties the disease has spread to, say the loss of their crop will be devastating.

ABC News

COVID-19's alarming effect on the heart

The SARS-CoV-2 virus may damage some patients' hearts, a study in Immunology suggests

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Cardiovascular disease looks different in women than men

DEAR DOCTORS: I'm a 38-year-old woman in good health. I kept getting a tight chest while running, so my doctor did some tests. He said my heart looked fine. But when I went for a second opinion, I was diagnosed with microvascular disease. I've never even heard of that before.…

Bangkok Post

Texas researchers receive $149 million for large study of Alzheimer’s in racial, ethnic groups

FORT WORTH, Texas — The National Institutes of Health is giving $149 million to researchers at the University of North Texas Health Science Center to pay for researchers to study the biology of Alzheimer’s disease in multiple racial and ethnic groups.

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Primary school teacher 'thankful to be alive' after thinking cancer was a common cold

Venessa Taylor, 54, from London has been struggling to find a stem cell donor to save her life with a transplant to avoid the disease recurring

The Conversation

A deadly disease has driven 7 Australian frogs to extinction – but this endangered frog is fighting back

Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field.

Daily Record

Early Parkinson's symptoms as BBC presenter diagnosed with condition after struggling to open packaging

Former BBC Radio 4 presenter Mark Mardell revealed he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease after struggling to open Waitrose packaging.

The Hindu

Govt. releases ₹4 crore for controlling leaf disease in arecanut plants

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Young woman in Limerick dies of meningitis as public warned of symptoms

The department said that person-to-person spread of meningococcal disease was “very unusual, especially with others who are not a household or physically close personal contact”.

The Hindu

CM grants ₹1 crore aid for treatment of two-year-old girl

She has been suffering from a liver disease

The Conversation

Some coronaviruses kill, while others cause a common cold. We are getting closer to knowing why

It’s hard to imagine a time when “coronavirus” wasn’t a household word. But for a long time, this family of viruses had merited very little attention. Believed to be ubiquitous among animals and avian species, the first coronavirus to infect and cause disease in humans was only isolated and identified…

Los Angeles Times

Bird flu spreads to Southern California, infecting chickens, wild birds and other animals

MENLO PARK, Calif. — After proliferating globally, a historic wave of avian flu has entered Southern California, where it is worrying farmers and bird lovers and could add to complications with supply chains and food prices.

Los Angeles Times

New declarations that ‘the pandemic is over’ once again miss the larger point, experts say

LOS ANGELES — “The pandemic is over.”

Chronicle Live

Turkey could be off the table this Christmas as millions are culled due to bird flu outbreak

Farmers have warned there may be shortages over the festive period if the deadly disease continues to spread

Miami Herald

Haiti confirms cholera deaths as fuel shortage, protests hamper access to clean water

After more than three years without a single confirmed case of cholera, Haiti is confirming the deaths of at least eight people from the deadly waterborne disease.

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