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'I've had purple urine since I was in nappies, but only found out why aged 53'

Tony has Alkaptonuria (AKU), also known as black bone or black urine disease

Wales Online

Mum blamed dizziness on 'overdoing it at gym' before devastating brain tumour diagnosis

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Sue was diagnosed with low-grade acoustic neuroma, a form of brain tumour, after almost a year of blaming her dizziness on 'overdoing it at the gym' and not eating enough

Daily Mirror

People claiming Universal Credit could also be due up to £627 each month on top of benefit

If you need help due to an illness, disability or mental health condition you may qualify for extra financial support from DWP.

Daily Record

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Australia moves to fast-track ban on silica stone benchtops that cause fatal lung disease

Federal government hopes to draft ban to combat silicosis by end of year with support from states and territories

The Guardian - AU

Health officials find link between popular drink and 'deadly' health conditions like heart attack and stroke

“We need to make sure the foods we eat aren’t hidden contributors.”

Irish Mirror

'The Last of Us' Gets One Thing Right about Fungi and Climate Change

'The Last of Us' is a fictional show, but the links it highlights between global warming and fungal disease — like Valley Fever — are very real

Inverse

Next pandemic is a forest clearing away

"We have effectively done nothing to stop the ignition of a future outbreak"

Salon

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Christina Applegate's defiant message at what could be her final awards show

Christina Applegate announced that she has been diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Multiple Sclerosis, which causes the body's immune system to start attacking the nervous system

Daily Mirror

Protect heart health to ward off other major diseases, study says

Academics found that adults with healthy hearts had longer disease-free life expectancies.

The Independent UK

Study reveals why ovarian cancer becomes treatment-resistant in some people

A team of international researchers, led by Australian scientists, has identified why some ovarian cancers become resistant to treatment.

ABC News

Jimmy Carter's final foe: A parasitic worm that preyed on millions in Africa and Asia

ATLANTA — Just a few hours before President Jimmy Carter underwent his first radiation treatment for brain cancer, he spoke of his hope, in the time he had left, to purge the world of a parasitic worm disease.

Los Angeles Times

Deadly new UK strep A variant leading to disease surge in Australia

Latest research finds the invasive variant produces significantly higher levels of a toxin than previous strain

The Guardian - AU

DWP: PIP monthly payments of £627 a month if you have one of 70 conditions

Almost three million people in the UK qualify

Bristol Post

Dept issues reassurance about mRNA jabs' safety

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has moved to dispel concerns about the efficacy and safety of both monovalent and bivalent mRNA vaccines for Covid-19, after reports of adverse side-effects made the rounds on social media.

Bangkok Post

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Dementia isn't a specific disease. Instead, it describes a collection of symptoms that affect a person's thinking and social abilities enough to interfere with daily life. There are more than 55 million people worldwide living with dementia. Of these, 50% to 60% have Alzheimer's disease. Dementia is the seventh leading…

Wales Online

Chidren's nightmares linked to dementia and Parkinson's Disease

The frequency with which we experience nightmares as children is to a large degree determined by our genetics

The Conversation

Bad dreams in children linked to a higher risk of dementia and Parkinson's disease in adulthood – new study

Can children’s dreams foretell events that will happen nearly 40 years into the future? Yes, according to the results of my latest study published in The Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine journal.

360info

This could stop pandemics in their tracks

Cheap, portable sequencers in poor countries could be key to identifying and halting emerging diseases before they have a chance to become a pandemic.

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360info

Why life is about to get better for patients with rare diseases

‘Rare’ diseases are anything but. And with cheaper DNA sequencing, patients’ lives will be transformed.

Inverse

Ohio Train Derailment: Vinyl Chloride Exposure May Have Similar Liver Effects to Heavy Drinking

Research on the chemical vinyl chloride burned in the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment indicates it could cause the same kind of liver disease brought on by heavy drinking.

Wales Online

Man dies at tea shop after choking on roast dinner

The pensioner, who suffered from Parkinson's Disease, choked to death while having lunch in a cafe near where he lived

Reuters

Viruses in Cambodian bird flu cases identified as endemic clade

The viruses that infected two people in Cambodia with H5N1 avian influenza have been identified as an endemic clade of bird flu circulating in the country, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

Inverse

What is Normal Blood Pressure? Less Than Half of Americans Know the Answer

Stunning as it may sound, nearly half of Americans ages 20 years and up have high blood pressure.

Salon

What frontotemporal dementia does to you

Some of the same genetic mutations can lead to FTD, ALS or symptoms of both

The Independent UK

DWP can pay up to £4,800 a year for anyone with these 21 health conditions – are you eligible?

Since September alone there have been 34,962 new claimants for PIP, a state benefit designed to improve living standards for those suffering from long-term physical disabilities or mental health conditions

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