Image copyright Pixar The former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios says he has a “blind mind’s eye”. Most people can close their eyes and conjure up images inside their head such as counting sheep or imagining the face of a loved one. But Ed Catmull, 74, has the condition aphantasia, in which […]
Image copyright Courtesy of the Bentley family Image caption Rose Marie Bentley lived until age 99 unaware of her rare condition A US woman who died at 99 of natural causes unknowingly lived with her organs on the wrong side of her body due to a rare congenital condition. Rose Marie Bentley, a pet feed […]
Image copyright SPL Using electricity to precisely stimulate the brain can boost people’s working memory, a study suggests. The team at Boston University, in the US, gave people in their sixties and seventies the working memory of someone in their twenties. The effect lasted at least 50 minutes after the stimulation stopped. But larger studies […]
Image copyright Getty Images People with asthma are being encouraged to use “greener” inhalers by the NHS, if it is suitable for them. Around 70% of inhalers used in the UK are the types that have high levels of greenhouse gases – compared to around 10% in Sweden The National Institute for Health and Care […]
MPs should be ashamed that prescriptions for medicinal cannabis were not being honoured, said Sir Mike Penning. The joint chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on medical cannabis under prescription raised the case of the Appleby family who travelled from Kent to the Netherlands to buy drugs for their daughter. But these was seized […]
Internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle “online harms” such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse, under government plans. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has proposed an independent watchdog that will write a “code of practice” for tech companies. Senior managers could be held liable for […]
Media captionBelle Curran and her mum Stella told the BBC last year about the urgent need for organ donors A 10-year-old girl on a waiting list for an emergency double lung transplant has died before a donor could be found. Belle Curran had the rare condition Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD), which meant she required a […]
Image copyright Getty Images Even light-to-moderate drinking increases blood pressure and the chances of having a stroke, according to a large genetic study in The Lancet, countering previous claims that one or two drinks a day could be protective. The UK and Chinese researchers followed 500,000 Chinese people for 10 years. They say the findings […]
Image copyright Getty Images Even light-to-moderate drinking increases blood pressure and the chances of having a stroke, according to a large genetic study in The Lancet, countering previous claims that one or two drinks a day could be protective. The UK and Chinese researchers followed 500,000 Chinese people for 10 years. They say the findings […]
Image copyright Getty An independent review is to be carried out into chemotherapy given to 14 women who died after NHS Tayside gave lower doses than other Scottish health boards. The health board requested the review after it was criticised in a report by Health Improvement Scotland (HIS). It will be carried out by Dr […]
