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‘I’m beaming again after brain tumour therapy gave me my life back’ | UK | News

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A 15-year-old girl once stricken with a brain tumour is enjoying her childhood again – one of over a thousand patients treated by the UK’s first NHS proton beam therapy centre. In the five years since The Christie Hospital’s High-energy Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) Centre opened in Manchester in late December 2018, over 1,250 gravely-ill … Read more

Dementia warning: Toothbrush habit is linked to increased risk of disease, says new study

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Researchers from the National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan used data to study the association and inform evidence-based clinical advice in the future. Chia-Shu Lin, lead author of the study and a professor in dentistry, said to Newsweek: “Most systematic reviews consistently concluded on the role of oral microbiome (the ‘ecosystem’ of the micro-organisms) … Read more