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Lower back pain may be eased by new nerve inhibitor drug

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Hope for millions who suffer lower back pain after scientists develop a non-opioid treatment that only needs to be administered once every two months  The drug works to inhibit nerve activity and provides chronic back pain relief The type of back pain that the drug works on is a leading cause of disability  They say … Read more

How a Japanese cult tested nerve gas on sheep at an Australian Outback property before fatal attack

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Banjawarn Station takes up a million acres of shrub and grassland on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert in the middle of Western Australia.  It is marginal land to graze livestock but about as isolated as any habitable place that exists on the planet and the perfect location to do things without being watched.  … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Investots need to keep their nerve

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There is no denying it has been a brutal couple of weeks for investors. Panic over coronavirus has badly shaken the world’s financial markets, culminating, on Monday, in the FTSE 100 suffering its sharpest one-day fall since the height of the 2008 crash. With City traders saying, ‘It’s utter carnage out there’, it is understandably … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Hold your nerve even as markets head south

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JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Hold your nerve even as markets head south By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:10 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 23:04 GMT, 29 February 2020 Let’s not beat around the bush. Stock markets are in freefall, and if the doomsters are to be believed, there could be worse to … Read more

‘Life-changing’ operation that brings paralysed limbs back to life could banish pain of nerve damage

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A simple hour-long operation could be ‘life-changing’ for thousands of Britons left permanently disabled due to damaged nerves. The procedure can banish the crippling, constant pain which sufferers describe as being like lying on broken glass, scorched by a flame or stung by bees. The surgery repairs nerves or replaces them with transplanted ones but … Read more