by John McMillan | Jul 4, 2025 | Health
Nial Wheate, Macquarie University and Slade Matthews, University of Sydney Side effects from taking too much vitamin B6 – including nerve damage – may be more widespread than we think, Australia’s medicines regulator says. In an ABC report earlier this week, a...
by John McMillan | Jul 4, 2025 | Health, Mental Health
Timothy Hearn, Anglia Ruskin University Waking up from a nightmare can leave your heart pounding, but the effects may reach far beyond a restless night. Adults who suffer bad dreams every week were almost three times more likely to die before age 75 than people who...
by John McMillan | Jul 4, 2025 | Ethics, Medical Research
Laurenz Casser, University of Sheffield At some point between conception and early childhood, pain makes its debut. But when exactly that happens remains one of medicine’s most challenging questions. Some have claimed that foetuses as young as twelve weeks can already...
by John McMillan | Jul 4, 2025 | COVID-19, Immune Response
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan History has a cruel way of repeating itself, especially when we fail to appreciate its lessons. COVID-19 is now a global presence, and its emergence has chilling parallels with the deadliest pandemic in recorded human history — one...
by John McMillan | May 2, 2025 | Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia
Michael Hornberger, University of East Anglia Ever heard of Fischer’s disease? No? Maybe that is not surprising, because it doesn’t exist. But it could have. In fact, the disease we now know as Alzheimer’s disease might just as easily have been called Fischer’s...
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