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‘I just couldn’t stop crying’: Nadia Essex reveals she’s battled ‘a touch of post-natal depression’ after an emotionally ‘tough’ week By Emily Webber For Mailonline Published: 17:30 BST, 3 August 2020 | Updated: 18:14 BST, 3 August 2020 Nadia Essex has revealed she’s battled ‘a touch of post-natal depression’ after an emotionally ‘tough’ week of … Read more
Spain’s former King Juan Carlos, 82, flees the country into ‘forced exile’ as $100m corruption scandal surrounding him threatens to undermine the Monarchy Spain’s former monarch, King Juan Carlos I, says he is leaving Spain It comes after corruption allegations about him had surfaced in recent weeks Spain’s PM recently said he found developments about … Read more
Britain today recorded its highest number of coronavirus infections in almost six weeks, after nearly a thousand people were diagnosed with the life-threatening disease in just 24 hours. Some 938 Britons tested positive for Covid-19, up a fifth on yesterday’s figure (789) and nearly 40 per cent more than the 678 recorded last Monday. Not since … Read more
The human brain has a limit on how much information it can process at once due to a finite energy supply, a new study reveals. UK neuroscientists say that energy supply to the brain remains constant and can’t exceed an upper limit, however challenging a task is. But as the brain uses more energy in … Read more
Is the Covid-stroke link weaker than doctors thought? Just 2% of Philadelphia coronavirus patients suffered the devastating complication – and less than 1% were under age 50, study finds Of more than 800 patients at a Philadelphia hospital, just 2.4% suffered an ischemic stroke, which occur when blood flow is blocked to the brain The … Read more
Despite not being able to talk, dogs process speech in the same way as humans do, according to a new study. Both dogs and human brains separately process the intonation – how a voice rises and falls – and the meaning of the words spoken. Hungarian researchers used functional MRI – measures brain activity by detecting changes … Read more
Painkillers such as paracetamol and ibuprofen can do ‘more harm than good’ and should not be prescribed to treat chronic pain, health officials have said. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence claims that there is ‘little or no evidence’ the drugs, as well as aspirin and opioids, work. But in draft guidance, published on … Read more
Domestic abuse victim who’s beaten by her partner in their small bedsit on a ‘daily’ basis during lockdown says he’s deleted her Facebook and admits she ‘didn’t care if she woke up in the morning’ Woman abused by her partner said the situation ‘got much worse’ over lockdown Told how he was mentally and verbally … Read more
Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist at King’s College London, said the UK’s mini coronavirus outbreaks are ‘ripples’ caused by a failure to completely flatten the first epidemic The UK’s mini coronavirus outbreaks are just ‘ripples’ caused by the failure to completely flatten the first epidemic and not proof of a second wave, according to a … Read more
Despite not being able to talk, dogs process speech in the same way as humans do, according to a new study. Both dogs and human brains separately process the intonation – how a voice rises and falls – and the meaning of the words spoken. Hungarian researchers used functional MRI – measures brain activity by detecting changes … Read more