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Netherlands, Australia find omicron variant as curbs spread
Travelers walk with their luggage in the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021. Israel on…
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Swiss seen approving COVID restrictions as infections rise
A pupil wearing a protective mask arrives at a primary school Etablissement Primaire de l’ecole vaudoise, in Morges, Switzerland, 11…
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Suspected Omicron cases mild: leading S.Africa doctor
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A South African doctor who raised the alarm over Omicron said Sunday dozens of her patients…
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UK to enforce new COVID rules from Tuesday
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Britain’s government on Sunday defended the pace and scale of its response to the new Omicron…
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DR ELLIE CANNON: Why am I so cold, even when I’m inside with the heat on?
I am constantly freezing. I’ll be sitting in my living room with the central heating on and get pangs of…
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Will Greggs’ fake meat festive bakes be a hit with customers like the chain’s vegan sausage roll?
‘Nobody was waiting for a vegan b****y sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns!’ So said the infamous tweet from Piers Morgan, reacting…
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Spine injury patients ‘abandoned’ by NHS mental health as a third of sufferers consider suicide
People left disabled by spinal-cord injuries are being ‘abandoned’ by NHS mental health services, despite being far more likely to…
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Woman admits shy bowel syndrome means she can’t use the loo with husband of 47 years in the house
Lynn Thompson has been married to her husband Jeff for 47 years. ‘Soulmates’ since they met in their early 20s…
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DR MIKE SMITH: Phone appointments aren’t saving GPs time as two thirds of patients still come in
It’s probably nothing, doctor, says the patient, a woman in her 70s. It’s a phrase I hear on an almost…
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Unvaccinated pregnant women are pushing NHS maternity services to ‘crisis point’, doctors warn
The growing number of unvaccinated pregnant women with Covid on labour wards is pushing some maternity services to the brink,…
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Valneva vaccines cancelled by UK just TWO MONTHS ago could be key to beating Omicron strain
Ministers and scientists expressed concern last week that the new Botswana Covid variant not only had the potential to be…
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HEALTH NOTES: Stay sharp… with housework
HEALTH NOTES: Stay sharp… with housework By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:01, 27 November 2021 | Updated: 22:07, 27…
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Britain tightens COVID rules as world on alert over omicron
People line up to get on an overseas flight at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 26,…
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World races to contain new COVID variant
The new variant has sparked fears of a major setback to global efforts against the pandemic. Fears mounted Saturday that…
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Italy announces first case of new COVID variant
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Italy on Saturday said it had detected its first case of the new Omicron strain of…
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What is known so far about new COVID variant Omicron
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain South African scientists have discovered a new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, with multiple mutations that is thought…
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UK confirms first two cases of new COVID strain
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Britain on Saturday confirmed its first two cases of the new Omicron strain of COVID-19, both…
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South African scientists brace for wave propelled by omicron
People line up to get on the Air France flight to Paris at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South…
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World races to contain new COVID threat, the omicron variant
People line up to get on the Air France flight to Paris at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South…
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UAE says 100% of population received one COVID jab
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One hundred percent of the United Arab Emirates’ population has received at least one dose of…
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Omicron variant poses ‘high to very high’ risk to Europe: EU health agency
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The new COVID variant, dubbed Omicron and originally detected in South Africa, poses a “high to…
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US, Canada restrict travel from southern Africa as new variant sparks concern
Germany used a military plane to transfer intensive-care Covid-19 patients to less afflicted regions. The United States, Brazil, Canada, and…
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Dutch say 61 COVID positive on flights from S.Africa
3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19–in front of a 3D print of a…
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Looking to the cell’s power generators for clues to depression
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Depression is a global issue. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 15 percent of people…
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Study finds stronger correlation between heat, humidity and suicide among women and youth
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For a number of years now empirical evidence has suggested that the effects of human-caused climate…
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Why it’s still a scientific mystery how some can live past 100 – and how to crack it
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A 35-year-old man only has a 1.5% chance of dying in the next ten years. But…
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Hepatitis B virus can trigger genetic changes in liver cells years before cancer diagnosis
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Universidade de Santiago de Compostela have identified how the…
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How moving dots are helping us learn more about dyslexia in children – new research
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Around one in ten children in the UK have dyslexia, a developmental condition which means that…
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Pharmacies could play a crucial role in supporting victims of domestic and sexual abuse
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Pharmacies could play a crucial role in identifying and referring victims of domestic and sexual violence…
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A single strategy is not sufficient to navigate the complex social interactions of everyday life, argues study
Credit: Francisco Farias Jr/public domain To successfully cooperate or compete with other people in everyday life, it is important to…
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Human Brain Project: Researchers outline how brain research makes new demands on supercomputing
Types of Big Brain Data and a supercomputer in the background. Credit: Timo Dickscheid, Sascha Kreklau / Forschungszentrum Juelich In…
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Grains: An overlooked source of sustainable protein for health
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cereal foods already play a major role in the diet in most countries worldwide, as the…
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Higher physical activity is associated with a better metabolic health risk factor profile in menopausal women
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä in the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences…
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Researchers find that SARS-CoV-2 infects sustentacular cells in the olfactory epithelium of COVID-19 patients
A lone infected sustentacular cell is surrounded by non-infected cells in the olfactory mucosa of a COVID-19 patient who died…
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Researchers apply existing method to reveal undesired biological effects of chemicals
Credit: CC0 Public Domain How do pollutants and other chemicals that we are exposed to affect our health? Researchers from…
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Will flight restrictions help as new virus variant emerges?
People line up to get on the Air France flight to Paris at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South…
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German air force transfers patients as clinics fill up
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Germany on Friday used a military plane to transfer intensive care patients to less afflicted regions,…
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New COVID variant raises fears of next delta, or worse
SARS-CoV-2 (shown here in an electron microscopy image). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH It is, scientists…
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Spicy substance from pepper gets into breast milk after eating
Mass spectrometric analysis by a research team shows that piperine, which is responsible for the pungency of pepper, is detectable…
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Dutch PM announces new COVID restrictions from Sunday
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Netherlands will tighten its partial COVID lockdown with the early closure of bars, restaurants and…
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One in 65 people had Covid in England last week as cases started to rise again, official data shows
England’s Covid crisis started to pick up again last week, official data today showed after two weeks of declining cases.…
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How can the brain perceive familiar objects when they become indistinct
We can perceive familiar objects even when they become indistinct (A). After repeatedly encountering the objects, a subset of neurons…
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Passengers on last flights from South Africa before ban say there were ‘no additional precautions’
Passengers arriving into the UK on one of the last flights from South Africa have revealed they were not offered…
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COVID-19 : Measuring viral RNA to predict which patients will die
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (blue) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (red), isolated from a patient sample.…
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Daily UK Covid cases breach 50,000 for first time in a month
Britain’s daily Covid cases breached 50,000 today for the first time in a month and deaths crept up — as…
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Eating breakfast before 7am could help you live longer because eating late disrupts ‘food clock’
Want a long life? Tuck into your breakfast before 7am – because eating it late disrupts the body’s ‘food clock’…
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A tough attachment between rotator cuff, bone achieved through unique fibrous architecture
Guy Genin, the Harold and Kathleen Faught Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University…
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What vitamins and supplements should you be taking this winter to boost your immune system?
Meta description: Worried about the upcoming cold or flu season? Learn which supplements to take this winter to boost your…
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Botswana Covid variant has twice as many mutations as Delta – what we know so far
The Botswana Covid variant, described by experts as the worst strain ever, has all the worrying mutations from previous versions…
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Merck’s antiviral COVID-19 pill can reduce risk of death from the virus by 30%, study finds
Merck’s antiviral COVID-19 pill can reduce risk of death from the virus by 30%, study finds A new antiviral COVID-19…
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