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When a celebrity dies, it can feel like losing a loved one. Why do we get so invested in parasocial relationships? | Bianca Denny

But working with Jodie* presented a unique challenge – she'd never met the person she was grieving. Jodie was reeling after the recent death of a well known singer. Despite not knowing the singer personally, Jodie's…

Only 3% of US sickle cell patients receive red blood cell exchange for disease, researchers find

That treatment is called a red blood cell exchange, a procedure that discards a patient's damaged red blood cells while simultaneously mixing the patient's remaining plasma, platelets and white blood cells with red blood…

Does avoiding misery make you happy?

He cycles through one inventive but futile pitch after another – in a house, with a mouse, in a box, with a fox, on a train, in the rain – until the narrator, caving just to get some peace, tastes the dish and discovers…

In an interview with BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, the prime minister said "broken social care will in the end break the NHS" and that he would not look in the other direction. Burnham went on to say that he will develop a…

‘It’s like the Scottish Upper East Side’: shame and snobbery as American students blamed for St Andrews classism

But in the two weeks since she published her story on LinkedIn, it has resonated with hundreds of others. "Working-class students have been made to feel ashamed of their home life at university," the former comparative…

Pennsylvania measles outbreak spreads, with 55 new cases reported since Wednesday

In a news release , the DoH said that 890 measles cases had been confirmed across 39 counties in the state so far for the year. The outbreak had resulted in 173 hospitalizations in the state and four measles-associated…

Gen X is drinking more as younger Americans cut back on alcohol, study finds

For the first time since before the pandemic, the percentage of US adults who drink any alcohol decreased between 2022 and 2024, according to the report in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. People from 50 to 64…

Schoolchildren without smartphones penalised with higher bus fares

Critics argue that by only making discounts available through an app, operators are undermining government guidance to keep mobile phones out of schools. Adele Kightley's 11-year-old daughter faces paying an extra £546 a…

Drones could speed up getting defibrillators to people having cardiac arrests, study suggests

In the UK alone, there are more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests a year where emergency medical services attempt to resuscitate the individual, according to the British Heart Foundation. However, fewer than…

‘They accepted the money but didn’t take care of my child’: what Luna Wong’s death reveals about the treatment of international students in the UK

She had a particular way of observing the world, which she expressed through photography. Her pictures were mostly landscapes, ordinary corners of Hong Kong, but she could spot an image nobody else would have seen in the…