Negative thought can raise risk of dementia
Having constant negative thoughts over a long period of time may increase the risk of developing dementia, scientists believe. Researchers at...
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Study shows how quickly and widely coronavirus can spread throughout hospitals
Coronavirus can spread throughout a hospital ward from a single spot in an isolated room in just five days despite...
SNP Health Minister admits she does not know when Scottish NHS staff will be regularly tested
In another astonishing admission, she said she said care home testing was "not happening consistently, in a planned way, across...
The Home Office’s cynical quarantine plans are a legally dubious stunt
The Government’s response to COVID-19 has been blighted by irrational decision making from the very start, but Downing Street’s new...
Book your holiday in France now despite quarantine threat, says French tourist minister
Since France started exiting lockdown last month, daily bookings of gites had multiplied tenfold and campsites had been besieged with requests,...
Gyms doing heavy lifting prep to be fit for purpose post-lockdown
PureGym, the UK’s largest gym operator, is trialling the use of robotic cleaners to enhance its cleaning regime. The robots,...
Regional coronavirus lockdowns could be imminent as modelling suggests infection rate rises
Mr Hancock's comments came as he announced that all hospital workers would have to wear surgical face masks at all...
Six babies found to have coronavirus within hours of birth to infected mothers
The data come from the UK Obstetric Surveillance System, with funding from the National Institute for Health Research and the...
Could coronavirus be killed off without a vaccine? History suggests there’s a chance
What unites these countries is that they were the worst afflicted by the Sars outbreak. South Korea was badly hit...
France declares coronavirus ‘under control’ and won’t impose new lockdown even if second wave strikes
France's scientific council has listed four possible scenarios the country faces with the epidemic in the coming months. In the...
More than 5,000 needless dementia and Alzheimer’s deaths since March, ONS data shows
“The sudden rise in deaths due to dementia and Alzheimer disease is so sharp that it is implausible that the...
Patient facing life with stoma bag should be allowed to die, judge rules
A patient facing life with a stoma bag should be allowed to die, a judge has ruled, after the young...
Mass screening for loss of taste and smell will detect hidden coronavirus cases, scientists say
Professor Tim Spector, from King's College, said: "We believe that loss of smell and taste is a very common Covid-19...
Scottish cancer patients may be sent to another health board for surgery under Covid-19 recovery plan
It was published as Ms Freeman disclosed there have been 125 Covid-19 "incidents" in parts of hospitals not treating patients...
Coronavirus infections in England and Wales hit peak days before lockdown, study finds
Prof Wood said: "It does seem possible that the social distancing that was happening before full lockdown might have done...
No rise in Finland’s coronavirus infection rate since schools reopened
In a country with 550,000 schoolchildren there have been only 23 cases of coronavirus infection detected at schools, one third...
At least 11 countries have reimposed restrictions amid fears of coronavirus second wave
Likewise China, which released strict lockdown measures on April 8 after 11 weeks, was forced to bring back restrictions in...
Reopening schools completely will not cause second coronavirus wave, new research says
Dr Ed Hill, of the Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (Sbider) at Warwick said: "Our...
Government faces prospect of judicial review into policy to move Covid-19 patients to care homes
On 19 March and 2 April the Government told NHS hospitals to transfer any patients who no longer required hospital...
Tens of thousands of Covid-19 tests voided after decision to send swabs to US backfires
Tens of thousands of Britons have had to be retested for coronavirus after a Whitehall decision to send swabs to...
NHS Test and Trace faces legal challenge over privacy fears
A critical NHS project to track the spread of coronavirus and help reopen the economy has been hit by a legal challenge...
Two-hour coronavirus test could free up hospital beds before winter, study finds
Coronavirus tests which only take two hours can be used to free up hospital beds, a Cambridge study has found....
Boris Johnson takes back control of coronavirus crisis with Downing Street shake-up
The new approach echoes the Government's Brexit planning last year which was led by an "XS" strategic and "XO" operational...
Cervical cancer vaccine boost increases supply for up to 84 million girls worldwide
HPV - human papillomavirus - is a group of more than 200 related viruses, 40 of which are spread through...
Test and trace scheme has contacted fewer than half of those at risk of coronavirus, leaked report suggests
Under the system, anyone with symptoms of coronavirus is asked to immediately book a test. If found positive, they are...
Reopening churches will boost common good in UK’s ‘new normal’, says Archbishop of Westminster
"Without roots which are nurtured and healthy, these qualities will disappear and we will revert to the 'old normal' in...
Reopening of dental surgeries in England only will result in ‘toothache tourism’, practitioners say
In particular, the BAPD said that because Wales and Scotland would not be reopening surgeries on the same day as...
