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EastEnders spoilers: Major character killed off as brutal storyline confirmed

EastEnders spoilers have confirmed that a character will die this week as a brutal storyline was confirmed. Episodes of the…

Inside tech mogul John McAfee’s life – including 47 children and years on run

John McAfee had a colour life in which he pioneered antivirus software that made him millions and claimed to have…

Too Hot To Handle fans blast Cam for having ‘no self control’ amid solo sex act

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Britney Spears fans show support outside courthouse amid conservatorship battle

Britney Spears is speaking in court about the conservatorship which controls her life, in a bid to have her father…

Fury as Welsh banned from Amsterdam for Euros clash but Danish have 12-hr window

Wales fans are furious at being banned from attending their last 16 clash with Denmark in Amsterdam – while the…

Romelu Lukaku shuts down Man Utd critic as he gives Man City transfer verdict

Romelu Lukaku has provided the perfect response to a Manchester United critic who suggested he was a failure at Old…

NHS heroes tell PM ‘all eyes on you’ as he hides from giving deserved pay rise

NHS workers have demonstrated outside Parliament to demand that Boris Johnson stops hiding away from giving them the pay rise…

Lisa Kudrow shares why she was fired from Frasier days before landing Friends

It’s hard to imagine Friends without Lisa Kudrow’s iconic Phoebe but the actress was supposed to star in cult classic…

Britney Spears’ boyfriend Sam Asghari wears ‘Free Britney’ shirt ahead of court

Britney Spears has had a public show of support from her boyfriend Sam Asghari ahead of her virtual appearance in…

‘Marcus Rashford my lockdown hero in different league when it comes to kindness’

If you’re anything like me, the great lockdown of 2020 already feels like a distant memory. Support bubbles, homeschooling, furlough…

Health Update

Number of NHS doctors taking early retirement has tripled since 2008

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Number of NHS doctors taking early retirement has tripled since 2008

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The number of doctors taking early retirement from the NHS has more than tripled over the past 13 years, official figures show. Figures provided to The…

COVID-19 pandemic caused US life expectancy to decrease by nearly TWO YEARS to 76.8

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COVID-19 pandemic caused US life expectancy to decrease by nearly TWO YEARS to 76.8

The COVID-19 pandemic caused life expectancy in the U.S. to decrease by nearly two years, a new study suggests. In 2018, life expectancy – or the average number of years…

Recovered COVID-19 patients may only need one shot of mRNA vaccines to be protected from virus

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Recovered COVID-19 patients may only need one shot of mRNA vaccines to be protected from virus

COVID-19 survivors may only need one shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine to be protected from the virus, study suggests Researchers looked at 36 people who had previously gotten…

Critical cell process shown to be missing in humans

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Critical cell process shown to be missing in humans

Rob Taylor is Professor of Mitochondrial Pathology at Newcastle University, Head of the Newcastle NHS Highly Specialised Mitochondrial Diagnostic Laboratory and a Consultant Clinical Scientist in The Newcastle upon Tyne…

Covid UK: 60% of adults now fully vaccinated

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Covid UK: 60% of adults now fully vaccinated

Britain hits another Covid vaccine milestone with 60% of over-18s now fully jabbed: Matt Hancock says ‘we’re so close’ to ensuring the entire adult population is protected against the disease…

FDA approved Alzheimer’s drug because trial data showed it was ‘reasonably likely’ to help patients

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FDA approved Alzheimer’s drug because trial data showed it was ‘reasonably likely’ to help patients

The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defended its controversial decision to approve the first new Alzheimer’s drug since 2003 this week. Aducanumab, which was developed by Biogen and will…

Research provides a roadmap to HIV eradication via stem cell therapy

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Research provides a roadmap to HIV eradication via stem cell therapy

HIV disrupts the lymphoid immune battleground. Credit: UC Regents In a groundbreaking study, a team of UC Davis researchers has discovered a special type of stem cell that can reduce…

Swabbing phones and testing for Covid is ‘just as accurate as lateral flow tests’, research suggests

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Swabbing phones and testing for Covid is ‘just as accurate as lateral flow tests’, research suggests

Swabbing your PHONE for Covid is just as accurate as taking a lateral flow test, study claims University College London scientists have developed Covid tests using phones £5 tests use…

After stroke, more than one try to remove blood clots may be tied to worse outcome

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After stroke, more than one try to remove blood clots may be tied to worse outcome

Credit: CC0 Public Domain After a stroke, doctors can try to remove clots in blood vessels to keep blood flowing freely to the brain. But even though most of these…

Covid UK: 16,135 new cases recorded in ANOTHER four-month high

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Covid UK: 16,135 new cases recorded in ANOTHER four-month high

Britain’s daily Covid infections hit a four-month high today, despite leading scientists and senior ministers insisting the outbreak was finally slowing down. Department of Health bosses posted 16,135 positive tests,…

Dieting and its effect on the gut microbiome

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Dieting and its effect on the gut microbiome

Colorized scanning electron microscope image of the gut bacterium Clostridioides difficile. Credit: CDC | Janice Carr Researchers from Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the University of California in San Francisco were able…

NHS cancer treatment backlog ‘can be tackled with high-tech therapy that saved life of Ashya King’

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NHS cancer treatment backlog ‘can be tackled with high-tech therapy that saved life of Ashya King’

A high-tech treatment could be key to addressing the NHS backlog of cancer patients fuelled by the Covid pandemic, experts say. Proton beam therapy — which only became available in…