Fifteen people were detained after the Mexican Navy seized 7,200kg of drugs, in two separate high-speed chases on 23 August. In a statement, Mexico’s government said the seizure of “presumably cocaine” was the largest captured during their administration. Footage released by the navy shows how the operations took place off the coast of Mexico in
Three years ago Ray Weaver was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease – just weeks after taking early retirement from a career in education. It was a cruel blow. The disease is incurable and caused by the loss of nerve cells in the brain, leading to a drop in levels of a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine regulates
Amid Mariah Carey’s heartbreaking announcement that her mother Patricia and sister Alison died on the same day over the weekend, Dailymail.com is taking a closer look at Alison’s life. Carey, 55, told People in a statement Monday, ‘My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of
By Jacinta Taylor Published: 20:35 EDT, 24 August 2024 | Updated: 20:45 EDT, 24 August 2024 A second Alzheimer’s drug is expected to be blocked for use by the NHS, it has been reported. Donanemab – hailed by scientists as the ‘best ever’ treatment for the disease – has been shown in trials to slow
Patients have been warned against going private for a new ‘miracle’ Alzheimer’s drug after reports emerged that two people in the US have died of suspected side effects in the past year. The drug, lecanemab, has been shown to slow the decline in the degenerative brain disease by around six months. Last week, the infusion
Back in the days when she was a hardworking schoolgirl with a bright future, Jasveen Sangha had a few words of advice for her fellow pupils at Calabasas High School. ‘It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper,’ the British-born teenager wrote in the Californian school’s 2001 yearbook, quoting Hollywood actor Errol
The first drug proven to slow down Alzheimer’s disease is being denied to dementia patients – unless they pay to go private. Regulators yesterday made two landmark decisions – granting a licence for lecanemab in the UK but then refusing to give it to NHS patients on cost grounds. It means those eligible in England
British scientists may have paved the way for a jab that protects againt drug-resistant gonorrhoea. Experts are on the hunt for a vaccine for the sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which is becoming increasingly difficult to treat. Strains of the bug have adapted so that the antibiotics medics use to routinely treat
A drug that restores brain metabolism in mouse models of Alzheimer’s also improved cognitive function. The discovery could help researchers find additional pathways to combating the symptoms of this brain disease, beyond the telltale amyloid plaques and tau tangles that are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s.A drug that restores brain metabolism in mouse models of Alzheimer’s also
They key to stopping Alzheimer’s disease before it begins could lie in a drug that doctors already use to treat another disease, a landmark new paper suggests. Researchers from Penn State and Stanford used a type of cancer drug to repair one of the early systems that breaks down in dementia – how the brain