What I gained (and lost) from walking 10,000 steps a day for five months
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Reading Time: < 1 minute On 2 January 2021, a friend told me that their New Year’s resolution was to walk 10,000 steps a day. Read More
Rwanda Meets WHO Year-End Target With Over 40 Percent Covid-19 Vaccination Coverage
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Kigali — Of its 13 million habitants, Rwanda has fully vaccinated 40% against COVID-19 as of 24 December 2021. Read More
Thousands of men battling prostate cancer could be cured with a 'game-changing' HOUR-long operation that uses electrical currents to destroy tumours
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Thousands of men with prostate cancer in the UK could be cured with an hour-long operation, doctors hope. Read More
Cancer timebomb of the anti-miscarriage drug given to 10,000 patients: Side effects of synthetic oestrogen have been passed on to daughters and granddaughters since the 1940s in 'scandal worse than Thalidomide'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Generations of women last night demanded an urgent inquiry into a drug they call the ‘silent Thalidomide’. Read More
Déjà vu: French scientists detect ANOTHER variant linked to travel to Cameroon and say it carries 46 mutations that may make it more vaccine-resistant and infectious (but it is so far NOT outcompeting Omicron)
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Another Covid variant has been found in France, according to scientists. Read More
Daily Express Covid warning as new variant with '46 mutations' infects 12 in southern France
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Scientists have rung the alarm bells over “the emergence of a new variant” in southern France. Read More
Investing 1 dollar per person per year could save 7 million lives in low- and lower-middle-income countries
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A new WHO report shows that close to 7 million deaths could be prevented by 2030 if low- and lower-middle-income countries were…
Pre-departure testing may end
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Telegraph reports online this morning that pre-departure testing for holidaymakers could be scrapped, Read More
Fewer Covid patients in London are requiring ventilators in hospital than in previous waves in a further sign that the Omicron variant causes milder disease
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Fewer Covid patients in hospital are relying on ventilation compared to previous peaks during the pandemic, it has been revealed. Read More
NHS trusts 'could start cancelling operations as early as next week'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute NHS trusts could start cancelling operations next week if Covid hospitalisations escalate significantly, hospital chiefs have warned. Read More