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Reusable vacuum cleaner bags are the best material for making homemade face masks with, the University of Cambridge has concluded after testing everything from socks to jeans. The cloth bags,…
Plans to test 10 million people a day could see tens of thousands of people self-isolating needlessly, experts have said. Plans being developed under Operation Moonshot will reportedly see 10…
A “super pea” should be added to flour to stave off diabetes, Imperial College London researchers have said, with a study finding that it helps prevent blood sugar spikes. A…
Patients should be allowed to self-diagnose ‘long Covid’, Government researchers have said, amid concerns sufferers are not being believed. The call accompanies the publication of new findings suggesting the condition…
The Apple Watch’s abnormal pulse detection feature risks overwhelming health services with false positive results, researchers have warned. In a paper for the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association,…
Mr Cox told the Telegraph: “The question always came up; can you train rats to detect Covid? “I don’t know the answer yet, but for sure if dogs can do…
Dr Andersen, who completed the study with researchers from Vital Beats, a Danish medtech company, added: “Conversely, the Fitbit watch can be calming, if data shows that you are sleeping…
A blood test for Alzheimer’s disease – capable of spotting the condition years before memory loss and confusion occur – is on the horizon. Scientists found that tiny fragments of…
NHS figures show that 106,535 urgent cancer referrals were made by GPs in England in May 2020, down from 200,599 in May 2019 – a fall of 47 per cent.…
The NHS is to press ahead with the trial of a controversial drug endorsed by Donald Trump, despite warnings by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that it makes death from…
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