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‘Why can I smell things that aren’t really there?’: DR MARTIN SCURR answers your health questions 

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Three years ago, I started noticing an unpleasant smell that no one else could detect. A neurosurgeon suggested it was phantosmia and that it would go; other specialists have been unable to explain it. I am 53. Have you come across anything like this? Lindsay Bruce, via email. Your symptom, although uncommon, is certainly not … Read more

Scientists trial whether candy could detect an infection because of a loss of taste and smell 

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Could CANDY test for COVID? Scientists trial whether flavored sweets could detect an infection because of a loss of taste and smell Researchers at The Ohio State University are recruiting 2,800 participants and will track them for 90 days  Every day they will be asked sniff and eat one of eight different flavors of hard candy … Read more

Scientist blasts BBC after presenter said physics teachers were ‘grumpy, scary and smell of cabbage’

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Fury at BBC home-schooling programme that tells pupils physics teachers are ‘grumpy, scary and smell of cabbage’ Actor & radio host Cel Spellman said physics teachers were ‘grumpy’ and ‘scary’ Dr Adam Rutherford criticised presenter for ‘ridiculous’ remarks on BBC Bitesize Spellman’s comments have also come under fire by people on social media  By Lydia … Read more

Scientist blasts BBC after presenter said physics teachers were ‘grumpy, scary and smell of cabbage’

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Fury at BBC home-schooling programme that tells pupils physics teachers are ‘grumpy, scary and smell of cabbage’ Actor & radio host Cel Spellman said physics teachers were ‘grumpy’ and ‘scary’ Dr Adam Rutherford criticised presenter for ‘ridiculous’ remarks on BBC Bitesize Spellman’s comments have also come under fire by people on social media  By Lydia … Read more

Sense of smell did not return to a quarter of Covid patients after 2 months

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Nearly a quarter of patients who suffered loss of smell from coronavirus did not see it return two months later, new study found Researchers looked at data from of 2,581 patients from 18 European hospitals  Reveals 24.1% did not regain their smell and taste within 60 days of infection  But the senses did come back to … Read more

Kaitlyn Bristowe updates fans on COVID-19 symptoms saying she’s lost sense of taste and smell

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‘I’ve lost my taste and smell’: Bachelorette alum Kaitlyn Bristowe updates fans on COVID-19 symptoms By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 01:41 GMT, 28 December 2020 | Updated: 01:43 GMT, 28 December 2020 She and her boyfriend spent Christmas suffering from COVID-19. And on Sunday, Kaitlyn Bristowe gave fans an update via Instagram Story. ‘So, … Read more

Google Glass-like device could help prevent Alzheimer’s by stimulating the sense of smell

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Google Glass-like device could help prevent Alzheimer’s by sending electronic pulses through the skin to stimulate the nervous system and sense of smell A wearable that straps around the head could ease or reverse Alzheimer’s  The device is fitted with six electrodes along the forehead, nose and ears It sends electrical pulses through the skin … Read more

Drake is selling scented candles that smell like himself through a new company

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Drake is pulling a page out of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop handbook, debuting new candles that smell like himself. The candles are part of a new company he has launched known as Better World Fragrance House. There are five candles in total, four of which are priced at $48, though the one that smells like the … Read more

Wealthy financier, 70, and his girlfriend, 49, sue boatyard over wobbly rudder and rotten egg smell

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A wealthy power couple are suing a top boatyard over a wobbly rudder and a smell of rotten eggs on their £500,000 luxury racing yacht. Elite financiers David Huber, 70, and Elena Lieskovska, 49, splashed out €562,533 (£504,693) in 2017 on the sleek X4.3 yacht, christened ‘Silver X’. But their prized new acquisition turned out … Read more

Danes living next to mass mink grave complain of overwhelming smell

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Danes living near mass mink graves in Denmark have complained of the smell – as trucks spilled bodies of the culled animals across roads in horrifying scenes.   Police and medics were this week forced to issue a warning about the smell from mass graves at Holstebro and Karup, where trenches have been dug to deal … Read more