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In 2023, neurologists at a memory clinic in China diagnosed a 19-year-old with what they believed to be Alzheimer's disease – ...

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File this under 'That's not supposed to happen!'. In an experiment published in 2023, scientists observed a damaged section ...

In cases of a condition called jaundice, a compound called bilirubin turns a person's skin and eyes yellow. It's usually a ...

Despite the profound human, social and economic costs of alcohol abuse, existing treatments have failed to provide meaningful ...

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