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When humanity comes together, extraordinary things can happen.A contestant who appeared on the British game show Deal or No Deal was flooded with financial support after coming out with his life-limiting condition.After winning just £5 in the revived ITV program, Brad Wale’s fellow contestant Rochelle Brown launched a fundraiser to help him achieve his dream. And within days, thousands of donations poured in, smashing the £20,000 target, the BBC reported.Brad Wale, a contestant who appeared on the British gameshow Deal…

Toyota, as a manufacturer, is known for making reliable cars. Their first product in the Indian market was the Qualis MPV, available from 2000 to 2004. It was later replaced by the Toyota Innova, another superhit product from the Japanese car manufacturer. Finding a well-maintained Qualis these days is quite difficult, but we have featured many Qualis on our website that have been cleanly modified in the past. In this video, a rusty old Toyota Qualis has been neatly restored and brought back to its former glory. The…

To think is to be alive. Yet not everyone who thinks agrees with this famous Descarte truism.Some people with a rare neuropsychiatric disorder, known as Cotard's syndrome, simply cannot fathom their existence.Oftentimes, those who suffer from Cotard's delusion think they are walking corpses. Others think of themselves as bodiless spirits that will live forever.No matter the specific variations, patients with Cotard's experience a profoundly distorted reality, in which they deny the existence of their bodies and their…

Bronny James, University of Southern California basketball player and son of NBA star LeBron James, was hospitalized for cardiac arrest on Monday, but is currently in stable condition. The 18-year-old USC freshman was admitted to an intensive care unit following the heart-related medical emergency, which took place while he was in a university basketball practice, a James family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. A cause of the medical incident was not provided, but the…

Julian Sands’ cause of death has been deemed undetermined due to the condition of his body, six months after the British actor went missing while hiking in California.The determination was made nearly a month after Sands’ body was recovered from the Mount Baldy area, and six months after the A Room With a View actor was reported missing by his family after he went hiking.No other factors in his death were found during the coroner’s investigation, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino county police department told the…

AFib History gives long-term visibility into the amount of time your heart shows signs of AFib, also known as AFib burden, so you can share this information with your physician for richer conversations. Apple Watch users in India can now keep a track of Atrial fibrillation (AFib) history. The feature was already available for international markets but as per IANS, Indian Apple Watch users can also now access the feature. For those who do not know, AFib is a chronic heart condition of irregular rhythm where…

A factory sealed, unopened first generation iPhone from 2007, that even has its box and cling wrap in mint condition, sold for an insane and record amount of Rs 1.3 Crs. The iPhone holds special value as it belongs to one of the original engineers who made the iPhone…

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine identified a new gene mutation causing heart failure in children, called infantile dilated cardiomyopathy, and successfully reversed its effects using a drug on heart muscle cells derived from the patient’s stem cells. The findings hint towards the development of treatments to manage this condition, currently treated through a heart transplant, by focusing on the discovered genetic mutations that lead to heart failure.In an effort to determine the cause behind…

A common blood condition associated with an increased risk of several diseases unexpectedly appears to lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease.People with clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) are 10 times more likely to develop blood cancers and twice as likely to end up with heart and liver conditions. So when Stanford University cell biologist Hind Bouzid and colleagues set out to see how this condition messed with Alzheimer's, this was not the outcome they were expecting."We were surprised to find that…

People often jokingly say they've "got a bit of OCD" (obsessive-compulsive disorder) if they are overly organized or tidy. But OCD is actually a severe and disabling disorder characterized by obsessions – recurrent intrusive thoughts, impulses, or images that are unwanted and anxiety provoking. This is often coupled with compulsions, which are ritualistic mental or physical actions.Some people with OCD are engaged in rituals for much of their waking life and cannot even leave their homes. As the condition is difficult to…