“This is the 2025 tracking of performers who have had to cancel shows for some sort of illness or being sick. After the popularity of last years thread. I have decided to do it again this year and this time we are starting from the start of the year not several months in so it is likely the list will be bigger this year.”
This is the 2025 tracking of performers who have had to cancel shows for some sort of illness or being sick. After the popularity of last years thread. I have decided to do it again this year and this time we are starting from the start of the year not several months in so it is likely the list will be bigger this year.
Disability claims skyrocket, raising new puzzle alongside 'excess mortality'
Along with a baffling rise in "post-"pandemic mortality rates that has insurers stymied, the number of Americans claiming disabilities has skyrocketed since 2020, adding another "puzzling factor" that could impact corporate bottom lines.
So many 'Christmas colds' circulating. I have been alive for over 64 years, and do not remember this level of illness over the holiday period, but by next year this will be considered perfectly normal and (mis)remembered as the way it always was. It's already happening this year.
“So many 'Christmas colds' circulating. I have been alive for over 64 years, and do not remember this level of illness over the holiday period, but by next year this will be considered perfectly normal and (mis)remembered as the way it always was. It's already happening this year.”
Ambulance Chief Execs highlighted that their teams are ‘under severe pressure’ from seasonally high sickness rates, citing Covid, flu & norovirus as the main culprits.”
New research illuminates link between chronic infection and Alzheimer’s Disease, paving the way for potential antiviral treatment - PolyBio Research Foundation
Yet another major study places infection at the heart of Alzheimer’s disease.
What we know as Max George shares surgery update after heart issue
Yet another young musician with dangerous heart condition of unknown etiology.
“The 36-year-old singer has been diagnosed with a 2:1 atrioventricular block. According to the NHS, a heart block is where the heart beats slower or has an abnormal rhythm and often is a problem caused by the electrical pulses that control your heart beats.”
THIS IS NOT NORMAL! In the past year in my social and work circles I’m seeing at least 20% of work colleagues constantly sick; 3 friends dead in their 50’s and 60’s; 31 year old friend in hospital with suspected pulmonary embolism; ⬇️
“THIS IS NOT NORMAL! In the past year in my social and work circles I’m seeing at least 20% of work colleagues constantly sick; 3 friends dead in their 50’s and 60’s; 31 year old friend in hospital with suspected pulmonary embolism; ⬇️”
“Kennard won't be available to play on Saturday. He's dealing with an illness right now, and he will need to miss a game or two while he recovers. Scotty Pippin Jr. is a prime candidate to see more work while the veteran is out of the lineup.”
Kennard won't be available to play on Saturday. He's dealing with an illness right now, and he will need to miss a game or two while he recovers. Scotty Pippin Jr. is a prime candidate to see more work while the veteran is out of the lineup.
My brother is now on statins at the ripe old age of 35 after multiple Covid infections. He is too thin, if anything. Exercises regularly and eats well and we have no family history of high cholesterol, but he is now on statins for life? I’ve at least gotten him to mask while…
“My brother is now on statins at the ripe old age of 35 after multiple Covid infections. He is too thin, if anything. Exercises regularly and eats well and we have no family history of high cholesterol, but he is now on statins for life? I’ve at least gotten him to mask while flying now but damn. How are people just accepting this?”
Most people I know are suffering from new health conditions acquired these last 2-3 years since we let COVID rip. Specifically the precise things that health officials warned us COVID will do.
“Most people I know are suffering from new health conditions acquired these last 2-3 years since we let COVID rip. Specifically the precise things that health officials warned us COVID will do.
There is qualitative and quantitative data on this. There is no way to worm around it.”
A lesion model of envy and Schadenfreude: legal, deservingness and moral dimensions as revealed by neurodegeneration
“Here, we profit from a relevant neurodegeneration model to disentangle the brain regions engaged in three dimensions of Schadenfreude and envy: deservingness, morality, and legality. We tested a group of patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), patients with Alzheimer’s disease, as a contrastive neurodegeneration model, and healthy controls on a novel task highlighting each of these dimensions in scenarios eliciting Schadenfreude and envy. Compared with the Alzheimer’s disease and control groups, patients with bvFTD obtained significantly higher scores on all dimensions for both emotions. Correlational analyses revealed an association between envy and Schadenfreude scores and greater deficits in social cognition, inhibitory control, and behaviour disturbances in bvFTD patients.”
Here, we profit from a relevant neurodegeneration model to disentangle the brain regions engaged in three dimensions of Schadenfreude and envy: deservingness, morality, and legality. We tested a group of patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), patients with Alzheimer’s disease, as a contrastive neurodegeneration model, and healthy controls on a novel task highlighting each of these dimensions in scenarios eliciting Schadenfreude and envy. Compared with the Alzheimer’s disease and control groups, patients with bvFTD obtained significantly higher scores on all dimensions for both emotions. Correlational analyses revealed an association between envy and Schadenfreude scores and greater deficits in social cognition, inhibitory control, and behaviour disturbances in bvFTD patients.
New study shows how dementia affects the brain's ability to empathize
“Patients with frontotemporal dementia often lack the ability to empathize. A study at Karolinska Institutet has now shown that these patients do not show the same brain activity as healthy individuals when they witness the pain of others, a finding that it is hoped will increase understanding of this specific dementia disease.”
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Patients with frontotemporal dementia often lack the ability to empathize. A study at Karolinska Institutet has now shown that these patients do not show the same brain activity as healthy individuals when they witness the pain of others, a finding that it is hoped will increase understanding of this specific dementia disease.
Health officials investigate mystery disease in southwest Congo after 143 deaths
“The deaths were recorded between Nov. 10 and Nov. 25 in the Panzi health zone of Kwango province. Symptoms include fever, headache, cough and anaemia, provincial health minister Apollinaire Yumba told reporters over the weekend.”
The deaths were recorded between Nov. 10 and Nov. 25 in the Panzi health zone of Kwango province. Symptoms include fever, headache, cough and anaemia, provincial health minister Apollinaire Yumba told reporters over the weekend.
Unknown disease kills 143 people in south-west DRC, local authorities say
“Unknown disease kills 143 people in south-west DRC, local authorities say
Infected people described as having flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches”
Unknown disease kills 143 people in south-west DRC, local authorities sayInfected people described as having flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches
