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From the landscape scarred by centuries of mine workings to the humble single-storey whitewashed cottages dotted along the hillside, Wanlockhead doesn’t seem much like a major visitor attraction.I’ve arrived in the centre of this tiny Scottish village surrounded by relics of its industrial past. It’s a chilly, windswept place lurking among a range of dark, smooth mountains.But it has a big claim to fame, for this scattered settlement, harbouring just 150 hardy souls, is Scotland’s highest village. It attracts thousands of visitors a year – who come to see what it’s like living at 1,531ft (466 metres) above sea level.Like…
Now this is a road trip.Meet the couple who are part way through a drive around the entire planet.Nick Chazee and Mathilde Vougny have so far clocked up 110,000km (68,350 miles) across Australia, Europe and South and North America in a very sturdy Land Rover Defender 110 that they’ve converted into a mini home on wheels.In a chat with MailOnline Travel they reveal the countries with the most welcoming people, the ones with the best and worst roads – and how Instagram has helped keep their spirits buoyant.Two of the countries that surprised the couple the most were Honduras and…
While Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, finding accommodation can leave visitors the exact opposite.Disneyland enthusiast Juliet Nuzzo is no stranger to the whimsical park – and often shares her tips and insiders knowledge about how to navigate the tourist hotspot.Nuzzo recently detailed her ‘stay or skip’ hotels in the Anaheim area of California for those wanting the Disney experience without having to fork out for the park.’After visiting over 25 hotels in Anaheim, these are the three that I would actually return to,’ she shared.All of Nuzzo’s recommendations are highly rated by other Disney and Anaheim enthusiasts, all with…
Katie Spinks’ first three pregnancies went without a hitch. She gave birth naturally to two beautiful healthy girls and one boy and described their births as ‘magical’.So when she the Virginia mother, 35, went for an induced labor at 39 weeks, she assumed it would be like the previous three.But she suffered a rare complication likely caused by drugs used to encourage contractions, leading to her uterus to tear and cause catastrophic internal bleeding.As she fought for her own life, her unborn baby was starved of oxygen and blood flow for nearly 30 minutes, causing irreversible brain damage.As a result, Jolene -…
Stress and anxiety may partly explain why colon cancers are surging in younger generations of Americans, a study suggests.Researchers from the Sichuan University of China found that when under frequent stress, a number of healthy bacteria that live in the gut start dying off, making it easier for cancer to move in.When these bacteria die off, tumors grow more quickly, they found, leading to more aggressive, rapidly growing colorectal cancers. These findings come amid an uptick in colon and rectal cancers in young people in the US and UK – which experts have previously attributed to diet. Data from JAMA Surgery showed colon cancer is…
By Roger Dobson Published: 19:41 EDT, 12 October 2024 | Updated: 20:10 EDT, 12 October 2024 A handful of nuts a day could keep dementia away, according to a trailblazing study.Eating just 30g of unsalted and unprocessed nuts lowers the risk of developing the condition by 12 per cent, the team of Spanish and Portuguese researchers found.The benefits are most marked for women, those over the age of 60 and those without other risk factors such as obesity or high alcohol conspumption.The survey analysed more than 50,000 Britons over seven years using data from the UK Biobank study and Oxford…
By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 21:08 EDT, 12 October 2024 | Updated: 21:20 EDT, 12 October 2024 GP surgeries could soon benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) software that cuts the toll of appointment ‘no-shows’ by a third.Every month, more than a million people do not turn up to their GP appointments.In 2022, then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak proposed a £10 fine for missing appointments but was forced to backtrack after the scheme was criticised by GPs.Now an AI system, piloted at a Norfolk GP practice, could be rolled out to tackle the issue. GP surgeries could soon benefit from artificial…
By Meike Leonard Published: 21:09 EDT, 12 October 2024 | Updated: 21:21 EDT, 12 October 2024 A common diabetes drug could cut the debilitating side-effects of prostate cancer medicines, pioneering research has found.Hormone therapy – which involves taking tablets that limit the production of the male sex hormone testosterone – is one of the most common and effective prostate cancer treatments.However, it can also cause weight gain and raise the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.But type 2 diabetes drug metformin has been shown to halve weight gain and lower blood sugar and cholesterol in patients when taken…
By Meike Leonard Published: 21:10 EDT, 12 October 2024 | Updated: 21:21 EDT, 12 October 2024 Regular meals of fish could lower the risk of developing the incurable hearing condition tinnitus, a study has found.A team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in the US researched 73,000 patients for incidence of the disorder, which leaves millions of Britons with a constant buzzing or ringing noise in their ears.Over a 30-year period, those who ate more than two servings of fish a week had an almost 25 per cent lower risk of developing tinnitus than those who ate fish rarely…
Until recently, the future for Sara Sjölund seemed, at best, uncertain. Having been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018, at the age of just 38, the businesswoman from London had undergone a raft of treatments, to no avail.Radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery – all failed to halt the cruel march of the disease that hits more than 12,000 Britons a year and vanishingly few survive. Despite her medical team’s best efforts, her cancer – a type known as an astrocytoma – kept growing.While the outlook for many cancers, from breast to skin and even lung cancer – once considered a death sentence…