EARWAX

Shoppers horrified to see Pretty Little Thing advertising Airpods covered in EARWAX

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‘I want to vomit’: Eagle-eyed shoppers spot PrettyLittleThing advertising a wireless headphone case using AirPods covered in EARWAX Yasmin Amirah, from Kent, posted a screenshot of retailer’s website on Twitter Images appeared to show the earphones speckled with a brown substance Post since been liked more than 317,000 times and was met with flurry of … Read more

Health: Earwax test to measure glucose levels could allow earlier identification of type 2 diabetes

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Earwax test to measure glucose levels could allow earlier identification of type 2 diabetes, scientists claim The cotton swab-esque probe has been developed by researchers from the UK Cheap to undertake, it is 60 percent more reliable than the current standard It can also be used at home, without clinical supervision like with blood tests Previous studies showed that … Read more

Your EARWAX could reveal how stressed or depressed you are

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Measuring earwax could help reveal how stressed or depressed someone is by providing an easy way to monitor the level of cortisol in the body, researchers claim.  Experts from UCL and King’s College London discovered that cortisol in earwax was relatively stable and so they created a new device that could ‘take a sample and … Read more