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Chronic fatigue syndrome or ME may be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, according to doctors. They have also suggested that taking certain fish oil supplements may help to alleviate some of the symptoms associated with the condition. Chronic fatigue syndrome affects an estimated 243,000 people of all ages in the UK. It causes a wide range of symptoms including muscle pain, memory loss, and severe exhaustion which can last many years and leave victims bed-ridden. Dr Basant Puri and colleagues at Hammersmith Hospital in London used state-of-the-art scanning technology to assess chemical activity in the brain. They...

Veterans deserve our respect The student council at the University of Guelph banned any recognition of Remembrance Day You probably didn't know Pte. John Smith Berry of the 48th Highlanders of Canada. I didn't either. But no doubt, like all of us, he had family and friends who knew and loved him. But most of those are likely gone now. So too were the hopes and dreams that Berry, like all young people, must have harboured, dreams which died with him on that battlefield in Italy on October 5, 1944. There is a brass plaque in his honour, and several...