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Mental Health Football Wales: Team changed our lives, say players
If you want to see another side to the beautiful game, look no further than Mental Health Football Wales.
Played, coached and organized by people with a variety of mental health conditions, MHFW aims to improve participants'…
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Bird flu: Poultry in Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex to be kept indoors
All poultry in Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex must be kept indoors from Wednesday, as part of a ramping-up of measures to prevent avian flu spreading, the government has said.
The affected areas were placed in an Avian…
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WHO alert over India-made cough syrups after deaths in The Gambia
A global alert has been issued over four cough syrups after the World Health Organization (WHO) warned they could be linked to the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia.
The syrups have been "potentially linked with acute…
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Nobel Prize goes to Svante Paabo for Neanderthal work
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Sweden's Svante Paabo for his work on human evolution.
The Prize committee said he achieved the seemingly impossible task of cracking the genetic code of one of our…
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Record avian flu outbreak sees 48m birds culled in UK and EU
Around 48m birds have been culled across the UK and the EU in the last year as a result of the largest outbreak of avian flu on record.
In the UK, 161 cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) were detected in poultry…
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Covid infections rise by 14% in UK and now top a million
Covid infections in the UK are rising and have topped more than one million, according to official estimates.
There has been a 14% rise in people testing positive in the week to 20 September - the biggest increase since the…
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Alzheimer’s drug slows progression of cognitive decline in clinical trial, drugmakers say
A monoclonal antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease called lecanemab slows the progression of cognitive decline by 27% compared with a placebo, drugmakers Biogen and Eisai said Tuesday.
The drug, tested in a Phase 3 global clinical…
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Alzheimer’s drug proves effective in slowing symptoms, says Eisai
Japanese drug maker Eisai Co. said Wednesday that its Alzheimer's disease drug, under development with U.S. firm Biogen Inc., has succeeded in slowing the aggravation of symptoms in a clinical trial, potentially paving the way for patients…
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British health officials warn of difficult winter with flu and Covid-19
British health officials on Wednesday warned that increased circulation of flu and a resurgence in Covid-19 could lead to a difficult winter that increases pressure on the already stretched National Health Service.
Warnings over a…
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla tests positive for Covid-19 again
Albert Bourla, CEO of drugmaker Pfizer, has tested positive for Covid-19 and is "feeling well," he said in a tweet Saturday.
Bourla said he does not have any symptoms.
"While we've made great progress, the virus is still with us,"…
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