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...
Year: 2020
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...
the science that shows why kids should be allowed to keep playing sport
According to a review of outdoor transmission of Covid-19 undertaken by academics at Canterbury Christ Church University the risk of...
Aspirin could be key in helping Covid-19 patients recover
Coronavirus patients in British hospitals will be given aspirin in a new trial to find out whether the cheap drug...
Dr. Steven & Dr. Jonathan Stern Dentistry
Oral ailments pose a major well being burden for many countries and affect people all through their lifetime, causing pain,...
How election-watching could affect our health
If you’re a politics junkie, there’s been plenty to sink your teeth into over the past five years. There was...
Nearly half of Covid patients in some hospitals are likely to have caught it there
Nearly half of coronavirus patients in some NHS hospitals are likely to have caught it there, “shocking” figures show. New...
The Government does not know what it’s doing and has no clue about grass-roots sport, insists Robbie Savage
Savage is not looking for personal praise, he is just trying to do what he thinks is right and what,...
Everyone over 60 classed as ‘clinically vulnerable’ in second Covid lockdown
During the first lockdown, around two million people defined as "clinically extremely vulnerable" were given advice to "shield" themselves at...
Hospital intensive care no busier than normal, leaked documents show
Critcon levels 3 and 4 are enacted during a ‘full stretch’ and ‘emergency’, when other wards need to be used...
NHS pays out ‘two multi-million pound settlements a week’ for maternity failings
The NHS is settling around two multi-million pound payouts every week for failings in maternity care, its head of complaints...
‘These players should be looked after’
“Repetitive heading – and then there would always be collisions or other incidents,” Sarah says. “There were various headaches over...
Mass Covid testing plan to offer route out of lockdown
The first pilot scheme starting on Friday and offered to everyone in Liverpool, including schoolchildren. Tests will be provided in...
‘Extremely vulnerable’ will be asked to stay at home as Government abandons shielding
Charities said it was not fair that those who were furloughed from their jobs would get 80 per cent of...
PFA backs call to make dementia in football an industrial disease
The Alzheimer’s Society on Monday posted a message of thanks to Sir Bobby and his family after they gave their...
How scientific ambiguity of outdoor Covid-19 infection has caused confusion in sport for months
Prof Gabriel Scally, president of the epidemiology and public health section of the Royal Society of Medicine, said governing bodies...
MIT develops new app which detects coronavirus by listening to your cough
Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system which they claim can detect coronavirus by analysing the sound of...
The new charity single that will help dementia sufferers in lockdown
When memory goes, and it is often gradually and sometimes spasmodically, words can become a jumble. But music retains its...
Tory MP Chloe Smith reveals breast cancer diagnosis and urges public to ‘check for lumps’
When Ms Smith won the Norwich North by-election in 2009 at the age of 27, she was the youngest MP...
‘I had a huge amount of guilt when I decided to stop being a doctor’
School is terrible, isn’t it? I don’t trust anyone who says it was amazing. When you’re 12, you’re not going...
How to stay active in later life, according to an 87-year-old marathon runner
A lifelong love of running began when Jones was called up for national service in 1951. When he joined the...
Test and Trace ‘struggling’ as public don’t answer phone to unknown callers, adviser says
"People don't answer their phones, people don't want to get a contact from an unknown number." Local contact tracing efforts...
