Hundreds of thousands of older people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s may, in fact, be suffering from a different disease. According to new research, the condition, known as Late, affects a fifth of people over 85. Like Alzheimer’s, Late leads to memory loss, cognitive decline and mood disorders (although its progress tends to …
The Trump administration has been holding migrant children -whether they came to the U.S. alone or were forcibly separated from their guardians – in a network of makeshift tent camps. An unnamed official at the Department of Health and Human Services told NBCNews that housing costs $775 per child per day. That’s more than a …
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Annual global sales of plastic bottles, glass bottles, cans and cartons are expected to reach 1.9 trillion in 2019. Volunteers who took part in 229 clean-up events on beaches and river banks in the UK found 49,000 pieces of packaging litter. Of this, 15.5% were Coca Cola bottles, and 10.3% were produced by Pepsi. Other …
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You have probably heard about the problem of anti- biotic resistance. This resistance is at last crumbling, but there is another problem – of economics. The issue is that pharma firms must recoup their investment in developing drugs, but antibiotics are the antithesis of a bestseller. They are taken for days or a few weeks, …
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Prime Minister Teresa May has called the visit of President Trump to London “a significant week for the special relationship and an opportunity to further strengthen our already close partnership”. She stressed the need to build closer trading ties (she is a out to depart, unmourned). Trump’s US ambassador in the UK, Woody Johnson, has …
