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A study shows that global warming is speeding up the degradation of remains left by the first Norse settlers in the Arctic - including wood, bone - and even ancient DNA

New research has found that despite having nearly identical DNA sequences, an evolutionary shift means that humans are less able to turn "bad" calorie-storing fat into the "good" calorie-burning kind.

The Japanese brew is the finely ground powder of new leaves from shade-grown, 90% shade, Camellia sinensis green tea bushes.

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A woman with dementia has told how she was brutally attacked by a man at a roadside cafe and left with a broken eye socket despite wearing a badge saying “I have Alzheimer’s please be patient”. Joy Watson, 61, was diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease when she was aged 55, featured in the Channel 4 series The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes, and was praised by then-prime minister David Cameron for her work fighting for others in similar circumstances. She told...

Studies show that LGBT+ specific trauma and addiction treatments have a much higher success rate.

However if they were aware, most pet owners would like their animals to give blood to help others according to researchers from the Royal Veterinary College.

People with dementia have spent almost £15 billion of their own money in the last two years waiting for Government care reforms, a charity has claimed. The Alzheimer’s Society said the Government must now publish details of how spiralling social care costs will be met in order to prevent people with dementia draining their own resources. In March 2017, ministers promised a social care Green Paper by the summer, but it has now been delayed several times. The latest from...

Advanced bowel cancer patients who have stopped responding to one of the main drugs used to treat it could be helped by immunotherapy, researchers have found. Researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, have been exploring how tumours become resistant to cetuximab. They looked at 35 people with advanced bowel cancer and found that cancer-killing immune cells were on average six times more active in tumours that had become resistant...