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(CNN)It's been two and a half weeks since a wedding in Maine sparked an outbreak of the coronavirus among guests. Since then, the virus has spread so fast, Maine Center for Disease Control and Preve…

Alzheimer's zapped: Scientist launch landmark trial to treat dementia by sending electric currents deep into the brainImperial College London and UK Dementia Research Institute got a $1.5m grantIt came from US philanthropists, including Bill Gates, to trial the new technologyResearchers chose 24 patients with early-stage Alzheimer's to have the therapyAfter dozens of failed trials for dementia…

Reports of people catching the novel coronavirus a second time are starting to trickle in, months into the pandemic.A Belgian woman was reported to have a mild second case, three months after her first illness.And an older person in the Netherlands with a weakened immune system caught the coronavirus twice too, a leading Dutch researcher…

Adrian Rogers, pictured with wife Amanda Rogers, had his potentially life-saving surgery cancelled. (SWNS)Adrian Rogers, 46, has become the first known cancer patient to reveal his terminal diagnosis after his potentially life-saving surgery was cancelled in the height of the coronavirus pandemic.Rogers, from Retford in Nottinghamshire, was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in July…

The nation’s testing efforts will be further overwhelmed once influenza, R.S.V. and other seasonal viruses arrive.Doctors won’t be able to diagnose patients on a hunch. “The flu season is a bit of a ticking time bomb,” said one expert. “We are all waiting and trying to prepare as best we can.”Credit...Bryan R. Smith/Agence France-Presse —…