Anti-vaxxer misinformation risks harming UK’s ability to beat Covid, scientists warn
Anti-vaxxers spreading misinformation could prevent Britain reaching the level of herd immunity needed to end the Covid pandemic, scientists have...
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Government ‘piling pressure on scientists to endorse Covid vaccine before Christmas’
However, the Government appears to be making plans for much earlier delivery. This week it emerged that GPs have been...
Regular colds could give children more protection against Covid, scientists say
Children may have greater protection against coronavirus because they pick up so many colds, research suggests. The study found children...
Test and Trace app’s ‘delete my data’ button undermines its effectiveness, claim top scientists
Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in health protection at the University of East Anglia who has previously advised the World Health...
‘Fourth tier’ of Covid restrictions beckons as scientists pressure Boris Johnson
Hospitalisations have already breached "reasonable worst case" levels, the papers show, and minutes from Sage warned that the NHS is...
Government scientists have blown apart their own case for lockdown
What with all the excitements of last week – the rock star mayor of Manchester winning a moral war in...
Very ill Covid patients recovering after getting immune system drugs, scientists say
Dangerously ill coronavirus patients are making "startling recoveries" in spite of being at "death's door" after being given drugs that dial...
Covid-19 could make sufferers permanently deaf, scientists warn
Coronavirus can make patients permanently deaf, scientists have warned after the first reported case in the UK. Details have emerged...
‘Rule of six’ may be working, say scientists, as coronavirus spread decelerates
The React study has carried out five rounds of sampling, of up to 160,000 people each time. It is being closely...
Scientists hit out at warning of 50,000 Covid cases a day
Improved care, new treatments and a change in the demographics of those infected mean the survival rate is now far...
Scrap ‘rule of six’ or risk tipping British public over the edge, say scientists
Writing for The Spectator with fellow researcher Tom Jefferson, he suggested the Government had panicked and made "rash decisions" and...
Naps should be kept to under an hour, scientists warn
Taking naps of longer than one hour can cause heart disease - and may even trigger an early death, research...
First case of bone cancer discovered in dinosaurs, scientists claim
Dinosaurs suffered from cancer, new research has revealed, indicating the disease is fundamental to the animal kingdom. Scientists claim to...
Is the UK facing a second coronavirus wave? There’s no sign of one yet, scientists say
On Wednesday, 846 people tested positive for coronavirus, and 165,480 tests were processed (0.5 per cent). Contrast that to April...
Cambridge scientists fear coronavirus second wave as ‘R’ rate rises across UK
On Wednesday, Niall Dickson, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents hospitals and other health services, said senior...
Structure of DNA rewritten as scientists find genetic ‘towers’ in human cells
A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Leeds University invented a fluorescent marker that...
Coronavirus antibody tests could give false hope of immunity, scientists warn
The experts writing in the BMJ also question the companies' claims of accuracy due to the limited information they have...
Children as young as eight show susceptibility to adult diabetes, scientists warn
Children as young as eight are showing signs of susceptibility to adult diabetes, scientists have warned. Symptoms of the type...
Keep cats inside and dogs on leads to avoid coronavirus spread, say scientists
Laboratory studies suggest Covid-19 could be transmitted to numerous animals because its spike protein, by which it attaches to host...
Human hearts may contain bone found in chimps with heart disease, scientists reveal
Some human hearts may contain bones, scientists have concluded, after discovering them in chimpanzees with heart disease. The rarely-found bone,...
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...
Coronavirus patients can suffer ‘extreme tiredness and shortness of breath for months’, government scientists warn
Coronavirus patients could suffer "extreme tiredness and shortness of breath for several months", government scientists have warned. Newly-released papers by...
Blood test could tell doctors if coronavirus patients are likely to become seriously ill, scientists say
The finding could also help researchers develop new treatments and vaccines. If scientists could discover what is causing the immune...
First drugs to treat coronavirus could be available as early as June, scientists say
The first treatment for coronavirus could be ready by next month, scientists have said, after trialling drugs, including HIV therapies...
Coronavirus deaths in Britain could stop by end of June, scientists say
Dr Jason Oke, a senior statistician at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford,...
France adopts similar message to UK as Boris Johnson denies scientists did not back ‘Stay Alert’ slogan
On Sunday, before Mr Johnson gave his 7pm televised address to the nation, Ms Sturgeon condemned ditching the slogan that...
Scientists advising on NHS app say modelling reveals it may save more lives than Apple and Google version
Most of the countries using Apple and Google's model do not alert people to self-isolate until a user has a...
