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Covid cases and deaths RISE: Infections soar 9.4% to 32,417
Covid-19 deaths and cases have both risen today compared to last week’s figures as infections soar to 32,417. Lives lost…
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Study: Abortion ban may lead to a 21% increase in pregnancy-related deaths
Projections based on published U.S. pregnancy and abortion death rates. Credit: Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: Stevenson 2021 A new…
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DR MAX PEMBERTON: The day I prescribed a penguin over a pill
For every ill, there’s a pill. At least, that’s what doctors like to believe. It comes from a good place…
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Just how SUPER are the new season’s superfoods?
Today marks the start of the first week after the autumn equinox and the stunning Harvest Moon that signifies the…
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Girl, eight, is left nearly BALD after pulling out her hair because of the stress of Covid lockdowns
An eight-year-old girl has been left almost bald after the stress of the pandemic and school disruptions triggered an unusual…
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Cheshire mother, 41, reveals how says having coronavirus ‘saved her life’
A mother-of-three has revealed how having coronavirus ‘saved her life’ after a visit to the doctor for a sore throat…
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Healthy changes in diet, activity improved treatment-resistant high blood pressure
Credit: CC0 Public Domain People with treatment-resistant hypertension successfully reduced their blood pressure by adopting the Dietary Approaches to Stop…
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Melbourne Covid: Father in ICU with ‘three days to live’ was vaccine hesitant
A vaccine hesitant father who vowed to ‘wait until the very end’ to get the jab is now fighting for…
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World Health Organisation will start NEW Covid investigation
The World Health Organisation will start a new investigation into the origins of the Covid outbreak and probe whether the…
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Agony for half of over-50s as it emerges thousands are waiting for surgery amid crisis in the NHS
Agony every day for half of over-50s as it emerges thousands are still waiting for surgery amid crisis in the…
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Children and youth at low risk of severe acute COVID-19 during first part of pandemic: Canadian study
Transmission electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, emerging from human cells. Credit: NIAID New research has…
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Covid has wiped more than a year off life expectancy of men in England and Wales, report says
The Covid pandemic has wiped more than a year off the life expectancy for men in England and Wales, according…
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Sir Roger Moore proved a heart scare needn’t leave sufferers’ shaken or stirred
Every day this week, a landmark series of four-page pullouts packed with inspiring stories and advice from the archives of…
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US has enough COVID-19 vaccines for boosters, kids’ shots
In this Aug. 28, 2021, file photo, Mayra Navarrete, 13, receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from registered nurse, Noleen Nobleza…
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Syria coronavirus spike sees hospitals reach capacity
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hospitals in the Syrian capital Damascus and the coastal province of Latakia have reached capacity due…
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UK counts on vaccines, ‘common sense’ to keep virus at bay
In this May 1, 2021, file photo, Maoula Jan, 52, receives his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine for coronavirus…
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COVID-19 vaccine boosters could mean billions for drugmakers
In this March 2021 photo provided by Pfizer, a technician works on a line for packaging preparation for the Pfizer-BioNTech…
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DR ELLIE CANNON: Going back to making EVERY GP appointment face to face will make things worse…
Before I say anything about the current GP crisis, I’d like to set something straight. I am a GP and…
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As folic acid is finally added to flour… should we now put iodine in salt to boost babies’ IQ?
The Government’s plan to add folic acid to bags of flour marks a successful end to a 25-year campaign by…
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Surgeons are far less likely to cause damage during spine operations thanks to ‘intelligent’ camera
Surgeons are using the sort of ‘intelligent’ cameras found in self-driving cars to operate on spines – allowing them to…
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JOAN KRON: How Botox began as biological weapon and is now used to fight migraines and back pain
In the weeks before D-Day – June 6, 1944 – when more than 150,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy’s beaches, the…
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US booster shots start, even as millions remain unprotected
President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and vaccinations in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday,…
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60 mn Americans now eligible for Pfizer booster shots, Biden says
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Some 60 million people in the United States are now eligible for a Pfizer booster shot…
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Novel and emerging medical radionuclides
This 3D graphic shows the SINQ, which helps to produce radionuclides for medical purposes. Credit: Mahir Dzambegovic Nuclear therapy and…
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Radiation therapy reprograms heart muscle cells to younger state
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that radiation therapy can…
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When it comes to communication skills—maybe we’re born with it?
Jenny Zuk, neuroscientist and speech pathologist, led a first-of-its-kind study that uncovered how neural networks in infants influence their language…
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Scientists suggest pregnant women only take paracetamol/acetaminophen if medically necessary
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A group of 13 scientists from the U.S., the U.K., Scotland, Israel, Europe, Canada, Brazil and…
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Photobiomodulation for Alzheimer’s disease with modulated 1070-nm light
by Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS a. The 1070-nm light irradiation apparatus and…
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More than one-third of children sleep less than recommended
(HealthDay)—Overall, 34.9 percent of children aged 4 months to 17 years sleep less than recommended for their age, according to…
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First biosimilar approved for macular degeneration, other eye conditions
(HealthDay)—The first biosimilar to Lucentis (ranibizumab injection) has been approved for the treatment of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration and…
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The true toll of Covid on the NHS: 18MILLION fewer appointments were carried out in 2020
Nearly 18million fewer NHS appointments were carried out last year, according to official data that lays bare the true toll…
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Covid-infected pregnant woman ‘lost her baby after being forced to wait for 2.5 HOURS for care’
A Covid-infected pregnant woman has claimed she lost her baby after being forced to wait for two-and-a-half hours in a…
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New potential factor contributing to severity of COVID-19 identified
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The University of Kent’s School of Biosciences and the Institute of Medical Virology at Goethe-University, Frankfurt…
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Youth online risk factors tied to suicide-related behaviors
(HealthDay)—Discrete types of risk factors are identifiable from online data that are associated with subsequent youth suicide-related behavior, according to…
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Mother-of-two loses her leg after a near-fatal suspected spider bite
A woman has lost her leg to a flesh-eating bacterial infection after a suspected spider bite. Bridgette Garza, from Texas,…
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From 1999 to 2019, death rates higher in rural versus urban areas
(HealthDay)—From 1999 through 2019, the death rates for males and females were higher in rural than urban areas, according to…
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Mother, 34, who lost her eye to deadly cancer can blow out candles through her empty socket
A mother-of-two who lost her eye to a deadly cancer has revealed she’s now able to blow out candles through…
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Graphic warning labels on cigarettes could have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths
Credit: University of Michigan A child with an oxygen mask. A diseased lung. A woman with a huge bump on…
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CDC director DEFENDS her decision to overrule her agency’s advisory committe
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has defended her decision to overrule her own agency’s…
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Nose spray filled with love hormone oxytocin ‘could help fight obesity’
Nose spray filled with ‘love hormone’ oxytocin could help fight obesity, study shows Tests shows one squirt in each nostril…
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Heartwarming moment four-year-old girl who beat leukaemia rings hospital bell
A four-year-old girl has finally rung the end of treatment bell after beating cancer following a gruelling two years of…
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Shrinking waveforms on electrocardiograms predict death of hospitalized COVID-19 patients
(A) In-hospital survival by presence of LoQRS. In this Kaplan-Meier analysis, patientsdischarged from the hospital were considered to have survived…
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DailyMail.com breaks down what you need to know about COVID-19 vaccine boosters
This week, millions of Americans became eligible to receive a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. In a press…
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England’s Covid outbreak shrunk by 11% last week, official data shows
England’s Covid outbreak shrunk by more than a tenth last week and the R rate dropped below one, according to…
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Many hurdles for families with food challenges, poll shows
Barrios Unidos president Lupe Salazar pushes a dolly filled with canned food ahead of a food drive on Thursday, Sept.…
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Grandmother Maggie Keenan – the first person to get an approved Covid jab – gets her booster vaccine
A British grandmother who became the first person in the world to get a Covid vaccine outside of a clinical…
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Britain’s daily Covid cases rise by 9% in a week to 35,623 amid spike in infections
Britain’s daily Covid cases have risen nine per cent in a week, official figures revealed today in another sign of…
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Pandemic slows for fourth week
The coronavirus pandemic continued to slow down for a fourth week in a row around the world. Here is the…
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Obesity a threat to adults with autism, but there may be help
(HealthDay)—Eating well and exercising regularly can be a challenge for anyone. But for those with autism spectrum disorder or intellectual…
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HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL: I wish a Maggie’s centre was there for everyone
In 1988, Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 47. She had a mastectomy and,…
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