A talented teenager tragically took his own life after being told he had failed his maths GCSE before his parents were told he had actually passed the next day, an inquest heard. Alex Henshaw ...

GCSE exams in 2025 are scheduled to start from the week commencing Monday, 5 May and finish on Wednesday, 25 June. These are the most up-to-date exam dates set by each exam board, but they might ...

Try these quizzes based on GCSE past papers and quick-fire questions. By working your way through the questions created by experts, you can prepare for your exams and make your GCSE revision more ...

After swallowing, the bolus enters the esophagus, where gravity and muscle contractions help move it down to the stomach through a process called peristalsis. Peristalsis is the slow contraction ...

Following a voluntary act of a swallow, the two sphincters relax and open and a contraction wave or peristalsis sweeps behind the bolus autonomously. The contraction wave sweeps through the entire ...

This includes consuming fiber and other substances that help soften stool, or speeding up the movement of your intestine (known as peristalsis). Constipation occurs when the muscular contractions of ...

Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV, United States We have developed a novel approach for high-resolution confocal imaging across multiple ...

One way to help ease constipation is to drink a soothing cup of hot tea. Hot liquids are thought to promote bowel movements by encouraging peristalsis (intestinal contractions). Two herbal teas in ...