February 14, 2025
Health & Fitness
February 14, 2025
Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London …
Eleanor Maguire, a cognitive neuroscientist whose research on the human hippocampus — especially those belonging to London taxi drivers — transformed the understanding of memory, revealing that a key structure in the brain can
February 14, 2025
Meet the Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5…
In early February, Vishvaa Rajakumar, a 20-year-old Indian college student, recently won the Memory League World Championship, an online competition pitting people against one another with challenges like memorizing the order of 80 random
February 14, 2025
NIH Research Grants Lag Behind Last Year’s by $1 B…
Federal research funding to tackle areas like cancer, diabetes and heart disease is lagging by about $1 billion behind the levels of recent years, reflecting the chaotic start of the Trump administration and the
February 14, 2025
Addenbrooke’s surgeon in Cambridge suspended…
Lewis Adams BBC News, Cambridgeshire Jozef Hall/BBC Staff at Addenbrooke’s Hospital raised concerns about care provided by their colleague A specialist surgeon has been suspended from a world-renowned NHS hospital after nine children under
February 14, 2025
UK men and women can expect to live longer, data s…
Boys born in the UK in 2023 can expect to live on average to the age of 86.7, and girls to 90, latest data suggest. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says figures show
February 14, 2025
Baby milk should have plain packaging in hospitals…
Baby milk formula should have plain packaging in hospitals, the regulator has said following a probe into the market. Baby milk brands often provide hospitals with formula below cost, because once parents start using
February 14, 2025
The funny, kind, 12-year-old who took a fatal over…
Eleanor Lawrie and Michael Buchanan Social affairs, BBC news Rachel Halliwell When 12-year-old Semina Halliwell was lying in hospital, she asked the consultant if she was going to die. Semina told him she had
February 14, 2025
RFK Jr sworn in as US Health and Human Services ch…
Robert F Kennedy Jr, one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet picks, has been sworn in as the next US Health and Human Services Secretary. The former presidential candidate will now oversee key
February 14, 2025