How the pandemic is forcing poverty-stricken parents to make desperate choices
"What's happening is not surprising," says Erica Hall, child rights expert at WorldVision. "And it's coming out of the desperation...
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Millions download NHS tracing app despite ‘teething problems’
More than 10 million people downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app in its first three days, the Government has said, despite a...
Hopes for nasal spray that gave ’96pc infection cover’ in ferrets
Weekly use of a nasal spray could give 96 per cent protection from coronavirus, new research from Public Health England (PHE) shows....
Government ponders plans for a ‘Neighbour Day’ bank holiday
Mr Kruger said in the report: “Neighbour Day should be a bank holiday, with an automatic permission for any residential street...
the heart attack risk factors every woman should know (but probably doesn’t)
What Professor Maas discovered would profoundly change how she practised cardiology. It would also lead to her new book, A...
Correcting Britain’s Vitamin D deficiency could save thousands of lives
As we face six tough months of curfews, isolation and economic misery, with vaccines a distant hope, testing struggling to...
‘Isolation hospitals’ were ‘too difficult’ for the UK’s health service to achieve
Newly-released minutes of a Nervtag meeting on June 10 record that John Edmunds, professor of infectious disease modelling at the...
Private hospitals boom as patients fears the NHS has been overwhelmed by Covid-19
Private hospitals are seeing a boom in demand for treatments from new patients triggered by fears the NHS has been...
‘I quit my City career to be a carer for my father’
My new role involved arranging meetings with estate agents and boldly walking in to persuade them to let flats to...
PPE littering is a growing problem, say councils, warning it could be spreading infection
Litter from personal protective equipment is becoming a growing problem, councils have said, warning it could be spreading infections. Almost...
Coronavirus outbreak on HMS Richmond with infected crew returning to base
The Royal Navy has confirmed an outbreak of coronavirus among the crew of HMS Richmond, with infected individuals on base...
Bluetooth heart monitor implant for Southampton firefighter in UK first
After the operation Miss Jones, who was accompanied at the hospital by her partner, Lucy O'Neill, 38, revealed she could...
Gyms closures led to rise in insecurity about people’s bodies during lockdown, MPs committee says
Closing gyms during lockdown led to rise in people feeling insecure about their bodies, MPs have warned. Two-thirds of under-18s...
Bomb-sniffing ‘hero’ rats could detect Covid-19, researchers suggest
Mr Cox told the Telegraph: “The question always came up; can you train rats to detect Covid? "I don’t know...
Warning of 50,000 Covid cases a day likely to be wrong, Oxford professor says
James Naismith, the director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute and professor of structural biology at the University of Oxford, said...
Should I send my child to school with a cold?
Back in April, NHS doctors were told to look out for a rare but dangerous reaction in children. This was...
Could this hidden syndrome be causing your varicose veins?
What I discovered from Prof Mark Whiteley at the Whiteley Clinic is that there’s a bigger picture to mine and...
how does track and trace work?
What does my postcode district risk level mean? You provide the first half of your postcode to the app so...
Hundreds of spa hotels back campaign to make the wellness industry more inclusive for cancer patients
"With , loads of people were being turned away out of fear because the didn’t have protocols, they didn’t know...
NHS staff took more than 500,000 sick days due to mental health issues in May
NHS staff took more than half a million sick days because of mental health issues in May, during the peak...
The need for constant hand washing in schools could lead to Generation OCD
Obsessive compulsive disorder involves a person having thoughts or images that are recurrent, persistent, intrusive and unwanted – ie obsessions. ...
NHS coronavirus tracing app plagued with technical difficulties within hours of launching
As the software is voluntary, its success will also depend heavily on how many people choose to download and use...
Beware the health dangers of ‘doomscrolling’
Almost twelves weeks have passed since July 4th, the Super Saturday unlocking of pubs, restaurants and hairdressers. But now, it seems, the...
NHS Covid-19 app: how will track and trace work
What does my postcode district risk level mean? You provide the first half of your postcode to the app so...
Operation Moonshot swab tests could damage the economy, claims top statistician
Earlier this month Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, insisted Operation Moonshot was still going ahead and aimed to provide huge...
Diagnoses of heart failure, coronary heart disease and diabetes fell by up to half during lockdown
Diagnoses of heart failure, coronary heart disease and diabetes fell by up to half during lockdown, GP records show in...
Majority of public thought Covid-19 pandemic would be over by now
Levels of anxiety and happiness saw the greatest change when lockdown was introduced compared with pre-pandemic levels, researchers added. For...
