China locks down city of 1.2m people after just three Covid cases detected
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteChina put a city of 1.2 million people under lockdown after detecting only three asymptomatic Covid-19 cases, Read More
What I gained (and lost) from walking 10,000 steps a day for five months
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn 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 minuteKigali — 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 minuteThousands 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 minuteGenerations 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 minuteAnother 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 minuteScientists 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 minuteA 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 minuteThe 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 minuteFewer Covid patients in hospital are relying on ventilation compared to previous peaks during the pandemic, it has been revealed. Read More