Month January 2022

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“Staying vigilant against the virus requires us to identify new approaches for people to maintain a high level of protection, and we believe developing and investigating variant-based vaccines, like this one, are essential in our efforts towards this goal,” said…

“I think without fail this is the right thing to do, the only thing to do to sustain services in the Southern Trust but more importantly to keep our patients safe, which we can all agree on this screen is…

As of October, 2020, NHS Fife had a delayed discharge patient (not Donnie) who had been waiting just over five years to leave hospital, NHS Forth Valley’s longest wait was 4.7 years and it was 1.4 years for Scotland’s biggest…

The study’s co-chief investigator, Prof Fergus Gleeson, said: “There are now important questions to answer, such as, how many patients with long Covid will have abnormal scans, the significance of the abnormality we’ve detected, the cause of the abnormality, and…

Two universities question hundreds of people to find that Brits masturbated 25% more often during lockdown to cope with boredom and kill free time A fifth of adults admitted to watching more porn during the first Covid lockdown Third of…

China has ordered more than a million people near Beijing to stay in their homes over a handful of coronavirus cases, just a week before the Winter Olympics begins. Authorities locked down the area that neighbours the capital, but unlike…

Britain will have another Covid anti-viral in its arsenal within a fortnight, officials revealed today.  Pfizer‘s drug Paxlovid, shown to cut the risk of being hospitalised or dying from the virus by nearly 90 per cent, will be dished out…

What is BA.2? This is an off-shoot of the Omicron lineage. It carries all the mutations of its parent, but also has a change that makes it harder to detect using PCR tests.  It has been spotted in 40 countries…

Britain’s Covid hotspots were today laid bare by an interactive map which shows how almost one in 12 people are infected in the worst-hit areas.  Rates were highest in Bradford, Wolverhampton, and London Borough of Waltham Forest where Office of National…

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As of October, 2020, NHS Fife had a delayed discharge patient (not Donnie) who had been waiting just over five years to leave hospital, NHS Forth Valley’s longest wait was 4.7 years and it was 1.4 years for Scotland’s biggest…

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Moderna is set to begin the second stage of trials for its Omicron-specific Covid vaccine, the company announced Wednesday – even though the latest variant is now fading fast across the United States.  The Cambridge, Massachusetts, based firm administered a…

Remarkable images show how just one dose of experimental cancer treatment shrunk huge tumours in mice Researchers at Northwestern University used enhanced form of immunotherapy New technique yielded remarkable effects after just one dose in rodent study They isolated most…

Daily coronavirus cases have fallen by a tenth in a week, despite warnings that the outbreak bounced back due to students returning to classrooms.  The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) bosses today logged 96,871 positive tests, down 9.8 per cent…

The majority of Covid patients in English hospitals are not primarily being treated for the virus for the first time in the pandemic, official statistics show. As few as a third of inpatients are mainly sick with the virus in…

Covid cases are continuing to recede in the U.S. – down 20 percent over the past week to 615,958 per day – but health officials warn that the next threat could be around the corner.  Deaths also continue to grow…

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Nadra Ahmed, head of the National Care Association, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that, while care providers would aim to allow unlimited visits, the changes would come with some challenges, such as staff shortages and infection control measures.

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A quarter of all sliced meats sold in British supermarkets are saltier than seawater, campaigners say.   Action on Salt analysed hundreds of different cuts of ham, poultry and beef available at leading retailers.    They showed one of the worst offenders,…

Getting vaccinated against Covid can halve your risk of suffering long Covid, real-world UK data suggests. A study of 6,000 people found those double-jabbed with Pfizer or Moderna were 49.6 per cent less likely to have lingering symptoms such as…

Two-thirds of Covid cases in England during Omicron wave may have been REINFECTIONS, official data suggests Government-backed REACT-1 found 4.4 per cent of people had Covid last month  Prevalence was at highest ever level but infections dropped off over the…

Daily coronavirus cases, deaths and hospital admissions were all down today as the UK’s fourth wave fell on every front — and figures suggest fatalities have peaked at just 255 per day. There were another 102,292 positive tests across the…

Are vaccines safe for pregnant women? There is no evidence the vaccines cause a different reaction in pregnant women.  Side effects reported by expectant mothers are similar to those seen among non-pregnant women.  Real-world data does, however, show mothers-to-be face…

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React programme director Prof Paul Elliott, from Imperial College London, said: “There is rapidly increasing prevalence among children now they are mixing more following the start of the school term and, compared with December, prevalence in older people, aged 65…

Why you really SHOULD go to Specsavers: Routine eye tests can flag up people at risk of suffering a heart attack in the next year, experts say Scientists trained an AI to examine routine eye scans for signs of heart disease   Using…

BBC podcast host Deborah James, who has incurable bowel cancer, has said the ‘trauma’ of nearly dying in an acute medical emergency is still ‘very raw and real’ as she returned home after three weeks in hospital. The former deputy head…

‘Snake oil’ genetic tests marketed to produce ‘designer babies’ do not work, experts claimed today.  Some fertility clinics in the US have started offering polygenic risk score tests which claim to predict genetic conditions such as heart disease and type…

Kim Kardashian‘s hourglass figure is more harmful for women’s body image than Kate Moss’ thin frame, a new study claims.  Researchers in Canada showed women Instagram photos of either ‘slim-thick’, ‘thin’ or ‘fit-ideal’ body types.  Slim-thick or ‘hourglass’, as seen…

The UK’s daily Covid cases and deaths remained flat today as the fourth wave continues to plateau — but hospital admissions fell for the 10th day in a row. Another 94,326 positive tests were recorded in the past 24 hours, according…

Did Omicron originate in MICE? Researchers say analysis suggests extremely-transmissible variant evolved in rodents before jumping back to humans Chinese scientists say Omicron’s DNA suggest it first emerged in mice They said it has mutations that made it better able…

Joanne explained: ‘One to three days post a clear test, begin to increase your heart rate with light walking gentle jogging, stationary cycling, or body weight, but no resistance training. ‘Aim to move for 15 minutes. If you feel good…

Dementia patients who regularly see the same GP tend to be in better health, a study suggests.  University of Exeter experts found dementia sufferers enjoyed a raft of benefits over their peers if they consistently saw the same doctor. They also had…