The low-down on prostate cancer
Only men have a prostate gland. The prostate is usually the size and shape of a walnut and grows bigger as you get older. It sits underneath the bladder and surrounds the urethra – the tube men urinat ...
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An anthology of poetry and two plays by a major 20th century English playwright
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest books The Zoo of the New: Poems to Read Now Selected by Nick Laird & Don Paterson (Particular Books imprint of Penguin Books £25) The poems in this anthology are ...
Senior moment – March
Memory sorting Scientists have discovered “clock cells” buried in the brain that add time tags to memories. These hippocampus cells could explain one of neuroscience’s enduring puzzles: how we recall ...
Why not become a house sitter?
According to Public Health England life expectancy has risen to its highest ever level and a recent report published by the Resolution Foundation think tank reveals that nearly one in seven Britons wi ...