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Researchers have revealed that a strange brain disorder, known as primary progressive aphasia (PPA), is likely to be mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease in its early phase. The reason for confusion is that PPA syndrome makes a patient forget words, but in case of Alzheimer’s disease, patients lose their memories and not words only.

Researchers said that they are on the quest to discover improved diagnostic methods for this very obscure disorder. The new methods will be aimed at assisting patients, who are very clear in their thoughts, but are not able to orally express their feelings for gaining proper care.

Valentine's Day is a day of love, but it's also a day to raise awareness among people about life-saving organ donations. It's National Donor Day which urges people to register for organ donation and take part in all types of donations, such as organs, tissues and blood.

Julie Kilkeary knows the importance of organ donation. When she was about to give birth to a child, she was told about signs of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Mrs. Kilkeary and her husband were left with a hard choice to make: let their daughter Faith pass, or prepare for three open-heart surgeries when she will be 3 years old.

Michigan governor Rick Snyder has demanded for expansion of Medicaid coverage for Flint residents. The federal government should think about enlarging the coverage for individuals under 21 and pregnant ladies who have been exposed to lead-contaminated water in the city, Snyder said in a statement on Sunday.

Flint has more than 15,000 residents, who will be benefited if federal government listens to him and accept his proposal, as per Snyder’s statement. He also said that Michigan will help in the issue by lining up doctors and health experts, and providing some essential services.

A new report has suggested that mental health care quality in the United Kingdom is going through a bad phase. Health care is lacking, underfunded and ruining many people’s lives, the report published by a taskforce set up by NHS England concluded.

Only a few people in the country are getting help on time. There are many sufferers who have received lesser care than required and funding constraints have put more pressure on current staff. Only 15% people are actually getting the help they need.

One of the most common sexually transmitted infections is caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). The HPV 16 strain of the virus infection causes cancer to two out of every three people with oral cancer in the United States and the stats are similar for most western nations. Males are twice likely to get infected with HPV than women, claims a new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the US capital on Friday.

Veteran puzzle and game maker Tony Fisher has constructed possibly the biggest Rubik’s Cube in the world. Each side of this Rubik’s Cube measures approximately five feet, with its weight somewhere around 220 pounds. It probably struck to the game maker that solving Rubik’s Cube of a normal size is quite simple, so he went ahead that took it to a level ahead.

This enormous version of Rubik’s Cube has been has been built by Fisher himself and he commenced this project in January 2016. It took him just several weeks to create this giant puzzle, a video of which has been posted by him online.