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WASHINGTON (news agencies) — An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than today’s treatments — by lowering levels of a brain protein called tau, researchers reported Tuesday.Tau is one part of a toxic duo fueling Alzheimer’s but prior attempts to develop drugs that can target the protein have failed. Two Alzheimer’s drugs, lecanemab and donanemab, try to clear buildup of the better-known amyloid protein and can modestly slow cognitive decline.The new findings suggest Biogen’s diranersen did more than lower tau levels. The study of about 400 people found signs that it also slowed…
Getty ImagesHoward Lutnick was appointed US commerce secretary by President Trump in 2025A British man has told the BBC how he unearthed evidence indicating that his former employer, Howard Lutnick – now US commerce secretary – failed to disclose a business relationship with the paedophile financier, Jeffrey Epstein.Simon Andriesz, previously a managing director at a Wall Street firm, discovered an email chain from 2018 in which Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a start-up business they were both involved in.Andriesz shared his findings – from the millions of released Epstein files – with US politicians on the influential…
Getty ImagesScott Mills previously hosted the BBC Radio 2 breakfast showDJ Scott Mills was the highest-paid presenter at the BBC before he was sacked earlier this year, according to the corporation’s annual report.The 53-year-old was paid around £745,000 before his exit in March, when it emerged he had been accused of historical sexual offences. Mills co-operated with a police investigation and was not charged.Other top earners at the BBC included Greg James, Stephen Nolan, Laura Kuenssberg, Vernon Kay and Alan Shearer, but Gary Lineker dropped significantly after leaving two months into the financial year.The latest annual report also shows the…
Getty ImagesThe lives of NHS staff and patients were put at risk in the pandemic because of a lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), with almost £10bn of taxpayers money wasted in a scramble to buy more, the Covid inquiry has said.The chair Baroness Hallett described the “vast” waste in pandemic procurement, amounting to £9.9bn – two-thirds of the £14.9bn the UK and devolved governments spent on PPE.The country entered the pandemic with its stockpile of masks, gowns and gloves in a “perilous state” and was “simply not ready to compete” in the global race to secure new supplies,…
Facebook/Karovic LjubisaThe pair were returning from holiday in Thessaloniki, Serbian media reportsA woman who held the legs of her husband as he was nearly sucked head-first out of a Ryanair cabin window on Friday said “half of his body was sticking out of the plane.”Svetlana Grković, who was travelling with her husband Ljubisa Karović from Greece’s Thessaloniki to Germany’s Memmingen, told Greek public broadcaster ERT he was “outside up to his chest” for two minutes. “I immediately reacted and grabbed his legs. I thought: ‘If we die, we die together,'” Grković told Serbian outlet Nova. With the help of two…
Getty ImagesYastika Bhatia celebrates her century during day three of the Test match at Lord’sOn Monday afternoon, India cricketer Sneh Rana delivered the ball at London’s iconic Lord’s cricket stadium, completing a journey for the Indian women’s cricket team that has been half-a-century in the making.The bandana-wearing off-spinner, who hails from a small town in northern India, floated one outside the off stump. England’s Sophie Ecclestone, having just completed a flamboyant half-century, pressed forward, only for the ball to dip, grip and sneak between bat and pad into the stumps. Rana blew a kiss skywards as her teammates rushed towards…
House of Commons/RCMPInky Mark and some of the firearms found in his Manitoba homeEx-Canadian MP Inky Mark has been arrested after police found a trove of guns, ammunition and an antique cannon along with thousands of dollars in cash in his home.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) seized 439 firearms from his house near Dauphin, Manitoba, last week during a firearms trafficking probe. At least three of the guns were illegally trafficked, RCMP said.Mark, 78, has been charged with firearms trafficking and several other gun-related offences, including possessing unauthorised devices and unsafe storage, which officials say threaten public safety.Manitoba follows…
John LaurensonNathalie using the Yuka appWith a packet of biscuits in one hand and her smartphone in the other in the biscuits sucrées aisle of her local Hyper U supermarket west of Paris, Nathalie sees red. Literally.”Look at that!” she says showing me her phone. 0/100 is marked in red lettering.”This is one of Malo’s [her 12-year-old son’s] favourites but it’s not only full of sugar and saturated fats, there are four additives as well including one health risk,” she says.Nathalie clicks on the additive in question: E450. “A mineral which, taken in excess, can lead to bone marrow and…
Layla KornotaLayla Kornota was diagnosed with ADHD as a childPhone alarms are what get teaching assistant Layla through her day. She has four alarms to wake up, one to get dressed, another to pack her work bag, and so on. “There’s a million different ones. Different times of the day,” says the 30-year-old as she scrolls through the alerts on her phone.”It feels like overkill to a lot of people, but I have these markers that I need to hit,” says Layla, adding that the process helps keep her ADHD brain focused and establish a routine.But that sense of control…