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Pioneering hair transplant therapy gets Government green light

Government gives green light for firm to BANK people’s frozen hair follicles for pioneering transplant therapy to combat baldness A company has been given permission by the Human Tissue Authority  Cells within the follicles can be multiplied in the lab and stored for future use The cells are injected back into the scalp to produce […]

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Father claims he gets just ten hours of sleep A WEEK

Father who claims he gets just ten hours of sleep A WEEK calls insomnia a ‘blessing’ after learning to play the piano, write poetry and speak French while the world sleeps Neil Epstein has learnt to survive without sleep for up to two days at a time Claims it gives him two years of ‘extra […]

Health Problems

Microneedle technology gets green light

Innovators at Cardiff Medicentre have pioneered microneedle technology that could end certain types of injections. Picofluidics Ltd – based at Cardiff University’s medtech incubator—has completed rigorous proof of concept tests. Working with scientists from Coventry University and backed by funding from Innovate UK, Picofluidics is preparing to go to market. Thinner than human hair, microneedles […]

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Man Gets 'Bowling Ball' Lump Extracted From His Neck

Why do these videos keep popping up on Facebook? We’ll tell you why – people enjoy watching gross things being extracted from the human body. It’s that simple. If you aren’t aware, Dr. Pimple Popper (a.k.a Dr. Sandra Lee) is an American dermatologist who records all the crazy popping procedures she performs on her patients. Lee has […]