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Health campaigners have called for a minimum price per unit to be introduced in England

Health campaigners have today repeated their calls for England to adopt minimum alcohol pricing. It comes after a new study found the biggest drinkers bought mo... read more

Rates of short-sightedness across the UK skyrocketed by nearly 50% in three decades

Rates of short-sightedness across the UK skyrocketed by nearly 50% in three decades, study finds Rates of short-sightedness in the UK jumped 46% in three decade... read more

Covid-19 UK: Common blood thinner can spare virus patients from severe lung damage, study claims

A £15 blood-thinning drug could help Covid patients and prevent lung damage, a study suggested today. Researchers based in the UK and Australia found heparin ... read more

Covid deaths in America begin to slow – up only 7% in past week – despite grim projections

The Omicron variant is finally showing signs of receding in the U.S as new daily deaths, the most important metric in the pandemic that often lags behind cases,... read more

Covid plunged by a fifth in England: ONS finds infections dropped first time since Omicron took off

Covid plunged by a fifth in England last week: ONS survey finds infections dropped for first time since Omicron took off but 2.9million (one in 20) were still c... read more

This massage gun is ‘as good as Theragun’ according to shoppers and it’s on sale at Amazon right now

Sore muscles from exercise? This bestselling massage gun is ‘as good as Theragun’ according to Amazon shoppers – and it’s £35 off right... read more

Children who develop a rare heart complication after catching Covid recover within three months

Children who develop a rare Kawasaki-like inflammatory syndrome after catching Covid recover within three months, a study has found.  While coronavirus poses a... read more

Shedding Light on Hair Loss: How You Navigated Female Hair Loss

You wake up, remove your hair from your pillow, take a cold shower, carefully wash your hair with Prose’s personalized product, condition it, and then air... read more

Furious MPs told to calm down in row over Government modelling during the Covid pandemic

Furious MPs today slammed No10 for its ‘despicable’ reliance on ‘hysterical’ Covid forecasts which have repeatedly driven the nation int... read more

Woman with excessive hair growth says bullies called her Chewbacca

A woman who suffers from a condition that causes excessive hair growth over her entire body has opened up about how cruel childhood bullies dubbed her Chewbacca... read more

Online misinformation ‘should not be censored’, experts warn

Harmful misinformation shared online should not be removed, experts warned today.   The UK’s national academy of science said removing bogus claims circulat... read more

Advanced Health Care solution AdvancedMD EHR

What is an EMR/EHR software? EHR/EMR software is a healthcare technology to control patients’ medical records and automated clinical workflows. HHR system... read more

Waiting six hours in A&E before being admitted can raise your risk of dying, study warns 

Waiting at least six hours in A&E before being admitted to hospital can raise your risk of dying by almost 10 per cent, a damning report suggests.  NHS tar... read more

Covid lateral flow tests don’t work as well on children

Covid lateral flow tests don’t work as well on children, according to a study which casts doubt on whether they can curb the spread of the virus in school... read more

How a simple eye scan could tell how likely you are to die in the next decade 

How a simple eye scan could tell how likely you are to die in the next decade Study says people with retinas older than their actual age were at increased riskÂ... read more

At least 60,000 Americans could die of Covid by the time Omicron variant

While it is starting to appear that the Omicron COVID-19 wave could be nearing its end, one model projects a grim future ahead for the United States, modeling t... read more

Children make up less than 0.1% of all Covid deaths since the pandemic began

Children make up less than 0.1% of all Covid deaths since the pandemic began in 2020 despite making up 20% of population, CDC reveals Data from the CDC shows th... read more

Pfizer’s antiviral Covid pill shows effectiveness against the Omicron variant in lab tests

Pfizer’s new oral Covid treatment showed effectiveness against the Omicron variant in lab tests in what could be a boon to America’s fight against C... read more

Blood tests could determine odds of critically ill Covid patients surviving

Blood tests could determine odds of critically ill Covid patients surviving battle with disease, doctors say German scientists analysed the blood of 50 critical... read more

76% of reported COVID-19 vaccine side effects could be imagined, phenomena called the nocebo effect

Up to three-quarters of reported symptoms of the COVID-19 vaccines may not be entirely real, a new study suggests. A research team from Harvard University perfo... read more

Covid isolation rules to END in March as Bojo draws up plan to drop all remaining restrictions

The UK’s daily Covid cases dropped for the 13th day in a row today and hospital admissions have now started to trend downwards as it emerged Boris Johnso... read more

Up to three quarters of side effects caused by the Covid vaccine may be down to the ‘nocebo’ effect

Up to three quarters of side effects caused by the Covid vaccine may be ‘all in the head’, experts say.  Millions of people across the world claim ... read more

Incoming NHS England chair Richard Meddings admits he has used private healthcare

The millionaire frontrunner to become NHS England’s new chairman today revealed he uses private healthcare.  Ex-banker Richard Meddings — who was in ch... read more

A QUARTER of all Covid ‘deaths’ are now patients who died WITH the virus

Covid was not the underlying cause of death in nearly a quarter of virus-related fatalities last week, official figures suggest.  The most up-to-date Office fo... read more