Billy Joel’s pop song history lesson that is “We Didn’t Start the Fire” got an update following Brigitte Bardot’s death on Sunday. The 1989 song lists 59 people— both famous and infamous — that the Piano Man immortalized as being important to the mid-century period. And with the French actress’ death at 91, only three of the … Read more
A UK man’s “aggressive” brain tumor was cut down in size by “50%” following a first-of-its-kind treatment for a type of cancer that typically kills patients within 18 months. The experimental trial was tested on Paul Read, a 62-year-old engineer who was diagnosed with glioblastoma – a cancer that kills most patients within a year … Read more
Loneliness has emerged as a significant health threat. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared in May that our “epidemic of loneliness and isolation has been an underappreciated public health crisis.” And new research finds that the number and frequency of social contacts in healthy older adults is linked to brain volume. People with the fewest … Read more