Dad's Army:Ian Lavender speaks his lip bleeding during scene We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info In 2018 it was announced that Lavender, 76, was leaving BBC […]

Dustin Hoffman 'snaps' at Charlie Stayt during interview We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The 84-year old survived a battle with an undisclosed type of cancer […]

Studies have shown that being in a hot environment reduces cognitive performance, whereas a brief walk enhances cognition. But what happens when you go for a brief walk on a hot summer's day, as so many students and office workers do during lunch or an afternoon break? Turns out, you might be better off avoiding the heat. In a study […]

Loose Women: Anna Richardson discusses Naked Attraction We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Anna Richardson, 51, will appear on screen tonight at 10pm as she presents […]

New York City public school students will be allowed to remove their masks outside starting next week but must keep them on indoors for now, Schools Chancellor David Banks said Friday. “I am so pleased that we are able to make this exciting announcement and safely allow students and staff to remove their masks when outdoors at NYC public schools,” […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland State Board of Education voted Tuesday to allow local school districts to decide whether students must wear face coverings in school, sending the proposal to end an emergency order to a legislative committee to make a final decision. Citing improvements […]

Charlie Apple had experienced people calling into question his humanity, suggesting he was just a confused kid or even a moral aberration. As a transgender teen, he had accepted that his future could include discrimination, verbal abuse, and violence. The sense of peace he said he felt in transitioning physically, however, was worth the risk. Still, it was especially painful […]

The brain can be divided into so-called gray matter and white matter. The white matter contains the axons that transmit stimuli. For faster stimulus transmission, the axons are wrapped in an insulating layer of myelin, in the same way as a cable is wrapped in rubber insulation to ensure that no electricity is lost along the way. If the myelin […]

A common childhood viral infection causes damage to cells in the bladder which may lead to cancer, a new study has shown. The study, led by researchers at the University of York and funded by the charity York Against Cancer, used laboratory grown human bladder cells to show that the virus—called BK—could be responsible for patterns of DNA damage seen […]

A key transcription factor in T-cell immunology is crucial to the immune system’s “memory” in recognizing threats it has already faced before—and it may be possible to improve this immunological memory in vaccines, according to a new paper by scientists at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI). The Tcf1 transcription factor essentially “preprograms” a particular type of […]