Author: James Martin

Heart disease claims around 160,000 lives in the UK each year. While prevention will always be better than treatment, new research suggests statins might not be the only effective medicine for a certain type of heart disease. In fact, a readily available supplement could also come to the rescue.While many experts agree that supplements aren’t necessary unless you’re deficient, a new study makes a strong case for a popular product.Research, published in the European Heart Journal, found that this product was capable of “dramatically” reversing signs of heart disease in certain patients.The commercially available supplement, called tricaprin, has been found to…

I refuse to spend hundreds on my children’s birthdays – we have adventures in the woods and pizza parties insteadKirsty Ketley, from Surrey, refuses to spend hundreds on children’s birthdaysShe said her children prefer smaller parties rather than big celebrationsThe mother-of-two, based in Surrey, usually spends £40 per partyVisit Metro.co.uk to read the full version of this article By Metro Reporter Published: 02:41 EST, 9 January 2023 | Updated: 08:40 EST, 9 January 2023 Whenever Kirsty Ketley takes her children Leo and Ella to friends’ birthday parties, she knows she’s going to open the door to some kind of expensive entertainment…

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There are moments in a season that can provoke profound self-reflection in a club. Nice’s shock 1-0 defeat to Le Puy-en-Velay Foot 43 Auvergne in the round of 64 of the Coupe de France represents one of those moments, laying bare the incoherence of Ineos’ project.Flashback to last May and Nice, under the stewardship of now-PSG manager Christophe Galtier, were playing in the Coupe de France final against Nantes. The club’s failure to jump over the first hurdle by beating third-tier side Le Puy-en-Velay in this year’s campaign shows just how poorly their team has been constructed.The first flaws in…

Peer to peer technology has evolved to accommodate payment systems, as exemplified by Bitcoin. It is a digital currency that can be used for personal and business transactions at a reasonable cost. Sometimes referred to as the currency of the internet, Bitcoin isn’t subject to any central authority. Created some five years ago, it has grown in leaps and bounds with many speculators asserting that this rise will continue in the foreseeable future. More about Bitcoins Bitcoin is descriptive of the actual technology in play. These coins represent the currency itself and are the ones transacted. They are sent or…

Comment on this storyCommentFor most of the past year, investment risk in the housing market has been focused on the for-sale segment. That was largely because the huge run-up in home prices during the pandemic led to a mentality of “what goes up must come down,” coupled with long memories of the housing bust in the late 2000s. But the data we’ve gotten over the past several months suggest that it’s the rental part of the housing market that’s setting up for a hard landing.Declining rents in 2023 should be the base case at this point, with the only question now being how…

Two women killed in Russian missile attack on village market, say officialsThe death toll from this morning’s Russian missile attack on a market in Ukraine’s eastern village of Shevchenkove has now risen to at least two, according to officials.A 60-year-old was among two women killed after the missile slammed into the village market in Shevchenkove, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of the city of Kharkiv.In a statement, the regional prosector’s office said:According to the investigation data, around 09:10 on January 9, the occupiers launched a missile attack on Shevchenkove town in Kupyansk district. An enemy missile hit the territory of…

Seattle public schools have sued the tech giants behind TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat, accusing them of creating a “mental health crisis among America’s Youth.” The 91-page lawsuit filed in a US district court states that tech giants exploit the addictive nature of social media, leading to rising anxiety, depression and thoughts of self-harm.  “Defendants’ growth is a product of choices they made to design and operate their platforms in ways that exploit the psychology and neurophysiology of their users into spending more and more time on their platforms,” the complaint states. “[They] have successfully exploited the vulnerable brains…

With Christmas only just over, shoppers have been shocked by the sight of none other than Easter Eggs available on supermarket shelves – several months ahead of the big day. Despite this happening every year, the reason behind the premature display remains a mystery to most.However, according to an expert, it’s actually a sneaky psychological trick that convinces shoppers to spend more money, as they buy the products now, then again in several months’ time closer to Easter.Speaking to the Mirror, Dr Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, a consumer psychologist from Anglia Ruskin University, has explained how shoppers think that by buying products in advance they are…

CNN  —  Although still rare, MIS-C after Covid-19 has been more common and more severe than previously reported, and there are significant racial disparities in cases, according to a study published Thursday in JAMA Network Open. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children – which primarily emerges after a Covid-19 infection – causes inflammation in various parts of the body and can affect major organs including the kidneys, brain, lungs and heart. It can be serious, or deadly. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently has relied on voluntary case reporting from local health departments for MIS-C surveillance. Through November,…