Poor nutrition linked to height gap of 20cm between world’s tallest and shortest adolescents
For example, in countries including Chile, the UAE and Mauritius, children had optimal height at age 5, but were more...
Day: November 5, 2020
Governments should pay public to get coronavirus vaccine, says Oxford scientist
Governments should pay people to get a coronavirus vaccine in order to achieve herd immunity, an Oxford University scientist has...
BAME health workers need extra care during second Covid wave, says minister
Black, Asian and minority ethnic health workers require extra care during the coronavirus second wave, a minister has said as the...
‘Covid graphs were wrong and death toll will not surpass first wave’
Although the central forecasts remain unchanged, forecasting 750 deaths a day and 4,290 hospital admissions by December 8, the upper...
Second lockdown will end on December 2, Boris Johnson pledges
The Prime Minister was asked whether he would be able to rely on his own MPs for subsequent measures or...
the gyms refusing to shut during lockdown
Businesses across the UK have refused to close their doors on the first day of the second lockdown. Non-essential services,...
I ran a marathon in every country for my cancer-stricken friend
A former banker, Butter is now a full-time runner, making a living through sponsorships and speaking tours. He didn’t hate...
Matt Hancock says people can break national coronavirus lockdown to travel abroad for assisted dying
People can break lockdown in order to travel abroad for assisted dying, Matt Hancock has confirmed. The Health and Social...
What essential shops will stay open during lockdown?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a month-long lockdown from November 5 after being told the NHS was on course...
The NHS ‘may well have been the single biggest problem over Covid’
The health service’s “lack of capacity and lack of flexibility” has been “very, very alarming” over the coronavirus pandemic, according...
City-wide Covid testing could allow people to ‘go about their business’, says Government adviser
City-wide Covid-19 tests could free millions of people from self-isolation, a Government adviser has suggested, allowing people to "go about their...
NHS algorithm wrongly predicted postponing cancer treatments during first Covid wave
However, new analysis published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that increasing the wait to surgery from six to 12...
Politicians had no firm grasp of the scientific evidence before imposing lockdown again
SIR – Is there any evidence that a single case of Covid has been transmitted by a player on an...
