Hospitals may be forced to move Covid patients elsewhere
If hospitals begin to transfer patients it will be the first time since the principle of mutual aid was invoked...
Month: October 2020
Traumatised intensive care nurses ‘sectioned’ in wake of first wave
In April, three front line staff were pictured wearing clinical waste bags on their heads and feet due to a...
The anti-lockdown arguments have failed. Where next for its opponents?
There are two possible answers. The less convincing is the one used to justify the first lockdown, namely flattening the...
Test and Trace app’s ‘delete my data’ button undermines its effectiveness, claim top scientists
Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in health protection at the University of East Anglia who has previously advised the World Health...
‘Fourth tier’ of Covid restrictions beckons as scientists pressure Boris Johnson
Hospitalisations have already breached "reasonable worst case" levels, the papers show, and minutes from Sage warned that the NHS is...
Passing of Nobby Stiles reinforces calls for neurological disease in football to be investigated as an industrial illness
The precise cause of dementia cannot be ascertained while former players are still living, but the Jarvis family donated Alan’s...
Justin Welby tells Boris Johnson not to ‘politicise’ child poverty
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, along with the Archbishop of York and other Christian leaders, has...
What are the potential exit strategies from Covid lockdown?
Devi Sridhar, professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, said it was vital to drive numbers down...
First drug to halt the effects of Alzheimer’s could be available within a year
Further studies are now underway, which offer such doses to all eligible participants from the earlier trials. If successful, it...
Covid cases are not spiralling out of control, says King’s College
New figures released by the ONS also put the number of daily infections far lower than Imperial's figures. The ONS...
Long Covid sufferers ‘face psychiatric problems as well as pain and fatigue’
The guidance says: “Signs and symptoms may arise from any system in the body, often overlap, and may change over...
Pensioner and her leg treated at hospitals six miles apart
A 71-year-old's leg was saved after an eight-inch section of her shinbone was removed, taken for radiation treatment at another...
NHS Covid app risk level changed to force more people into self-isolation
The Telegraph understands that the Government is considering allowing a Christmas window in which families can meet, with lockdowns on...
Boris Johnson under pressure to impose pre and post-Christmas lockdowns
There are fears that, on current infection trends, the whole country will be at Tier 3 by Christmas, and unable...
Advanced prostate cancer sufferers could receive ‘game changing’ drug as NICE forced to review decision
Advanced prostate cancer sufferers could be given a "game changing" drug after NICE was forced to review a previous decision....
Researchers reveal best material for making homemade coronavirus face masks
Reusable vacuum cleaner bags are the best material for making homemade face masks with, the University of Cambridge has concluded...
My mother died of the same cancer
Tracey Emin has never cared for privacy; “oversharing” is the point of her art. There’s an irony, then, to what...
Elderly should live in areas with fewer crossroads to reduce risk of getting lost, dementia study finds
PhD student Vaisakh Puthusseryppady, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: "We think this is because each road intersection represents a...
‘Protect the NHS’ was an unhelpful message, leading GP says
Britain's top GP has said "Protect the NHS" was an "unhelpful" message, warning of the risks of virtual consultations amid a...
Can taking lessons outdoors tackle the children’s mental health crisis?
Five-year-old Alfie* hadn't spoken a word at school all year until he started forest school. Being in nature, he finally...
Russia’s healthcare crisis accelerates rural decline
Life was being made easier for Muscovites – who have comparatively good healthcare – to keep them happy and prevent them protesting...
The hidden health costs of lockdown
As a country we have faced more than seven months of restrictions that have seen our normal lives upended, with...
‘My mother died of the same cancer but I didn’t think I’d have it’
The artist Tracey Emin has revealed that during lockdown she was diagnosed with a potentially fatal bladder cancer. Speaking to...
Children with older sisters in developing countries do better, study suggests
Having an older sister can have as much of an impact on a child's development in low- and middle-income countries...
The ‘Dominic Cummings effect’ on Britain’s start-ups
The pandemic has become the ultimate proving ground for Dominic Cummings’ unabashed campaign to use technology to improve government. As...
NHS staff and families accounted for one in six Covid hospital cases, study reveals
The team at Glasgow University examined data from 158,445 healthcare workers in Scotland aged between 18 and 65 and 229,905...
Covid disruption could mean 50,000 are living with undiagnosed cancer, charity warns
The analysis forms part of a new report entitled "The Forgotten C?", which says the backlog has been caused by...
