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Why hating creepy crawlies is a sign you're healthy: Sensing unwelcome objects ...

Do cockroaches and rats make you flinch? That doesn't necessarily make you a wimp - it could mean you're less likely to become ill. The reason we flinch is down to a mechanism called the behavioural immune system. It is stimulated by sensing unwelcome ...

Enzyme that triggers muscle wasting could be key to REVERSING signs of ageing

Volunteers underwent physical and biochemical tests, including body composition analysis (how much fat they had), grip strength analysis, biochemical profiling, urine tests and biopsy of the large, outer thigh muscle. The expression of the enzyme was ...

Healing gel made with your own blood contains platelets important for clotting

Blood is largely made up of a clear yellowish liquid, called plasma, but it also contains small, solid compounds - red cells, white cells and platelets. The platelets are important for clotting, but they also contain hundreds of proteins called growth ...

Jolt of electricity that fights migraines AND helps you lose weight

Here, it's usually given via a surgically-implanted electrode, but in recent years external devices have been used, too. It is thought to send messages to the brain which interfere with the chemicals that cause seizures. 'It doesn't always work ...

Part of Jahfari Martin's skull implanted into his STOMACH in op to save his life

After attempting to reduce the swelling by putting the nine-year-old into a medically induced coma, specialists decided to attempt the unusual procedure a bi-frontal decompressive craniectomy and insertion of bone flap into anterior abdominal wall ...

Two Cardiff men dead after kidney transplants infected with parasitic worm

Two patients died after being given kidney transplants infected with a parasitic worm, it was revealed today. Darren Hughes, 42, and Robert 'Jim' Stuart, 67, were each given a kidney from a transplant donor who was carrying the deadly worm in his ...

Woman claims air con saved her life after discovering cancerous lump in breast ...

After a double mastectomy, Ms Delaney found out she couldn't have reconstructive surgery until it was certain she was cancer-free. This flattens the breast tissue against the chest wall and makes it easier to evaluate. Use the Your last line ...