In the post-COVID-19 world, more and more people are using hand sanitizer to keep themselves safe from unwanted germs. While the new habit may turn some of us into professional germaphobes, you may be interested in knowing that there are…
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Mum who thought she just had a tummy ache wakes up paralysed from the waist down
When Emese Illes-Toth found herself in agonising stomach pain as she walked to the post office, she thought it was your usual tummy ache. But just five days later, the mum woke up paralysed from the waist down. An MRI…
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3 in 5 adults who thought about suicide received no mental health support in lockdown
During the first month of lockdown nearly a fifth of people reported having thoughts of self-harm or suicide, but only 42% of those thinking about self-harming or suicide and 57% of people who self-harmed had accessed mental health services. This…
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Studies of brain activity aren’t as useful as scientists thought
Hundreds of published studies over the last decade have claimed it’s possible to predict an individual’s patterns of thoughts and feelings by scanning their brain in an MRI machine as they perform some mental tasks. But a new analysis by…
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