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  • PoliticsThe Guardian

    Trump’s hush-money trial enters fourth day after difficult jury-selection process

    Prospective jurors were grilled on myriad facets of their life, with one raising concerns her identity had been discovered

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  • HealthThe Telegraph

    Frontotemporal dementia: What is it, symptoms and stages

    Frontotemporal dementia is one of the most common types of dementia that hits before the age of 65. Although symptoms typically begin in the late 60s, it can strike as young as 30 or as old as 90.

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  • HealthThe Telegraph

    Dementia treatments: Medication, therapies and lifestyle

    Dementia is the biggest health challenge facing the UK’s ageing population with 900,000 currently living with the disease and predicted to increase to 1.6 million by 2050. Now, for the first time, a new group of drugs called monoclonal antibodies have been shown to slow down the decline in thinking and memory in Alzheimer’s patients, the most common form of dementia.

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  • HealthThe Telegraph

    Do I have dementia and how to test for it

    Getting a dementia diagnosis is a long and complicated process, which can be a postcode lottery. In some cases where patients are under 65, it can take four years from recognising symptoms to receiving a diagnosis.

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  • HealthThe Telegraph

    Lewy body dementia – signs, symptoms and treatment

    For years, Des O’Sullivan struggled to pinpoint what felt wrong. When his symptoms started, Des was in his early 50s, a busy publishing consultant whose career rested on meeting budgets and deadlines. “At work, things I found straightforward became difficult. I was still good with words, but my maths had gone to hell. I couldn’t put my finger on precisely what was wrong.”

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  • HealthThe Telegraph

    How to reduce your risk of dementia

    A team of ageing experts, sleep scientists and psychologists at Monash University in Melbourne, are conducting a major study called BetterBrains to see whether personalised lifestyle interventions can help slow signs of cognitive decline. They are examining 40 to 70-year-olds with a family history of dementia over the course of two years.

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  • NewsThe Northern Echo

    North East jobs as energy company plans revolutionary heating system

    New company, Bring Energy, launches to accelerate the expansion of low and net zero carbon heating and cooling to local communities across the country.

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