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When will a coronavirus vaccine be ready? Latest news on UK trials
The findings, led by the National Institutes of Health, have not been peer-reviewed or published, but Professor Robin Shattock, Professor...
How the Precision Medicine Project can Speed up Covid-19 Treatment?
Nowadays, the world is going through an exceptional calamity of a different virus known as COVID-19. This originated at the...
Limiting TV time to two hours could minimise health risks
Adults could minimise their exposure to health risks associated with watching TV if they limit viewing time to two hours...
Families must choose one member to visit elderly relatives in care homes, Government says
Care homes will also be encouraged to offer "drive-through" visits and meetings in communal gardens or through windows in a...
New Covid-19 mutation ‘helping outbreaks spread faster around the world’
A new mutation of Covid-19 is now the most dominant strand of the virus globally and is forming clusters more quickly in...
Capri orders face mask crackdown as tourists swarm in and ignore social distancing
The mayor of Capri has declared that face masks must be worn outside in the evening, meaning anyone wanting to...
Culture of shaking hands ‘probably gone forever’, says top scientist
The custom of shaking hands should be ditched permanently and Britain should move to a Japanese-style greeting culture to avoid...
Former footballers are at lower risk of being hospitalised with depression, finds study investigating links with dementia
In an attempt to explain why the professionals were less likely to face severe mental health disorders, the study said:...
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...
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...
Inflation-busting pay rise for public sector workers
Nearly a million public sector workers will be given inflation-busting pay rises as a reward for their efforts during the...
Cancers missed because of coronavirus will shorten lives by average of 20 years, researchers say
NHS figures show that 106,535 urgent cancer referrals were made by GPs in England in May 2020, down from 200,599...
Privacy body accuses NHS Test and Trace system of breaching data protection laws
The NHS Test and Trace programme has been accused of breaching data protection laws after the Government admitted it had failed...
Police force says it will not respond to calls about shoppers who refuse to wear face masks
However, Alison Hernandez, police and crime commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, said officers would not investigate reports of people ignoring...
Experts hail results of human trials of a potential Covid vaccine as a ‘really important milestone’
The Mers vaccine has been successful in trials, and the virus shares a similar ‘spike protein’ with Covid-19, which is...
Anti-vaxxers are selfish – our lives shouldn’t be put into conspiracy theorists’ hands
I’m not a massive football fan, but I love a penalty shoot-out. There’s nothing more thrilling than to watch the...
