Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Shingles vaccine tied to fewer dementia diagnoses, study in Wales suggests

A person with only hands and legs visible using a walker on a wood floor.

A new study out of Wales has found those who received the shingles vaccine were 20 per cent less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years than those who did not receive the vaccine.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/shingles-vaccine-dementia-wales-1.7500368?cmp=rss

Amazon among bidders to acquire TikTok as deadline looms for a buyer to be found

A silhouetted hand holds a phone where the screen is black with the Tiktok music note logo lit up in the middle of it.

As the weekend deadline approaches for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer to avoid being banned in the U.S., bidders for the short-video social media site are piling up, including Amazon.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-tiktok-bidding-1.7500275?cmp=rss