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The UK’s new Minister of Loneliness to battle ‘a poison to humans’
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Last week, British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed an official “minister of loneliness” to the government.
It’s not as bizarre as one might think at first. In fact, experts who study the health effects of chronic loneliness are cheering the move.
Combating a disease whose cause isn’t so outwardly pernicious — like cigarette use or alcoholism — is expected to be a challenging task, but one scientists and doctors say is critical. Isolation from others makes us sick, and can cause direct, often deadly harm to our bodies.
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Would you ever lick the surface of your phone? How about your keyboard? How about the doorknob? EW! We probably go dilly-dallying around the workplace without thinking twice about who and what’s touched the surfaces we regularly encounter. Here are the top 10 places in the office that are as dirty as the toilet seat.
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Andrew Airey lives with Stargardt’s disease, which has deteriorated his eyesight over the past 20 years’eSight’ smart glasses has given Airey the chance to have almost perfect vision. He and his wife recreated their wedding, 15 years later, so that Ai…
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