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The litter pickers from The Vale of Evesham Food & Drink Festival received thanks after a vast amount of rubbish was photographed.

The Vale of Evesham Food and Drink Festival has been described as filled to the brim when it took place this weekend.

Wacky Weekender is Worcesters first festival of its kind.

LEBANON — On a recent afternoon in late April, “Felix” lay in a new hospital room in the recently completed patient pavilion at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.Short of breath, but in stable condition, Felix was in a bed in the heart and vascular...

LEBANON — On a recent afternoon in late April, “Felix” lay in a new hospital room in the recently completed patient pavilion at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.Short of breath, but in stable condition, Felix was in a bed in the heart and vascular...

THE owners of a restaurant coming to Worcester have confirmed when they are hoping to open.

In PLOS this week: LRRK2 variants affect transferrin trafficking, survey and phylogenetic analysis of visceral leishmaniasis, and more.

A common gene mutation for Parkinson's disease drives mislocalization of iron in activated microglia, according to a new study publishing December 16th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, by Mark Cookson of the National Institute on Aging and colleagues

The finding may help explain the accumulation of toxic iron in affected brain areas in the disease and provide a basis for the development of therapies designed to correct the iron trafficking defect. Previous data has shown that iron can be deposited in the brain, which can now be linked to a known genetic cause of Parkinson’s disease that may be relevant to novel treatments.

A common gene mutation for Parkinson’s disease drives mislocalization of iron in activated microglia, according to a new study publishing December