Heart attack victims missing vital treatment because of coronavirus fears
On April 25, Sir Simon Stevens, the chief executive of the NHS, had to launch a new drive to persuade the...
Day: July 14, 2020
New advice on ‘do not attempt resuscitation’ orders follows concerns over ‘blanket’ use in pandemic
The new legal action was threatened by Kate Masters, whose late father David Tracey brought a successful judicial review in...
Breast cancer patients can be treated with one-fifth of current radiotherapy sessions, study finds
Breast cancer patients can be treated effectively with just one-fifth of the gruelling radiotherapy sessions many currently endure, a 10-year...
Your new face mask etiquette guide
It should be self-evident that for a mask to be of any use it needs to cover both the mouth and...
Mothers can pass coronavirus to babies in the womb, study suggests
The baby was born early by Caesarean section because of concerns about his heart rate racing prior to birth, which...
dementia in the time of Covid-19
Stark statistics show that in countries with community transmission of Covid-19, more than 40 per cent of the total confirmed...
Prostate cancer ‘highly likely’ to be caused by HPV in some cases, study finds
For the new research, professors James Lawson and Wendy Glenn, from the University of New South Wales in Australia, reviewed...
Second Covid wave could see twice as many deaths and would require reorganisation of NHS hospitals
A second wave of coronavirus could bring twice as many deaths as the first, experts have warned, in a report...
Middle aged men and women likely to suffer more years of ill health than older people, UCL study says
Although equivalent data does not exist for people born in the 1940s and 50s, the researchers believe the pattern can...
