I’m not going to say Government would impose lockdown again, top civil servant tells MPs
In April, experts from the Department of Health, the Office of National Statistics, the Government's actuary department and the Home...
Day: July 21, 2020
Coronavirus vaccine could be rolled out before it gets authorisation from regulators
Professor Sarah Gilbert, the lead researcher of the vaccine development programme at the University of Oxford, said trials were currently...
Chris Whitty and Jeremy Hunt clash over UK’s abandonment of mass testing and tracing in March
When dealing with the question of why a test, trace and isolate system similar to South Korea was not modelled...
Coronavirus deaths drop by almost one third in a week, ONS figures show
The ONS said the pandemic is likely to have brought forward the deaths of some vulnerable or elderly people, which...
People are injecting themselves with bleach because of fake news, says senior MP
Coronavirus misinformation on social media has resulted in people injecting themselves with bleach, a senior MP has revealed as he urged...
Hospitals feared testing staff for coronavirus to avoid sending them home, MPs told
Hospitals failed to test staff for coronavirus because they feared having to send too many workers home, when almost half were...
Everything you need to know about sunscreen (and why Mark Zuckerberg wears so much)
UVB is "the chief cause of skin reddening and sunburn, tends to damage the skin's more superficial epidermal layers." While...
Inquiry into Britain’s worst maternity scandal examining more than 1,800 cases
A report found her death was avoidable and criticised two midwives for failing to realise the birth was high risk...
Coronavirus vaccine could be ready by end of year if 50,000 people can take part in trials
The Oxford team is one of 23 laboratories around the world working on a vaccine. Professor Sarah Gilbert, the lead...
Can bariatric surgery turn the tide on Britain’s obesity crisis?
An “emotional eater” since childhood, Claire Parker was 44 when she had a gastric bypass, where a small part of...
Brush your teeth to cut cancer risk
A link between bacteria commonly found in the mouth - such as that tannerella forsythia and porphyromonas gingivalis - and...
