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This is how stress affects your skin

This is how stress impacts your skin – and exactly what you can do about it to heal your complexion today Stress has a direct impact on your skin and can ... read more

More than 400,000 people in Britain have been suffering from ‘long Covid’ for over a year

More than 400,000 Britons have been struggling with long Covid for more than 12 months, official data suggests. The estimate from the Office for National Statis... read more

It’s NOT just children who are fussy eaters, study finds

It’s NOT just children who are fussy eaters! Nearly half of students are still picky at university, study finds Being a fussy eater is usually a term asso... read more

Using mouthwash could ‘cut risk of dying of Covid’: Poor oral health linked to getting severely ill

Mouthwash may protect you from Covid: Infected patients with poor oral health are more likely to become severely ill, study claims Dr says using mouthwash could... read more

Travellers could face £15 bill to take ‘day two’ Covid tests on Zoom

Travellers could face an extra £15 bill to take ‘day two’ Covid tests on Zoom to make sure they do them properly (on top of the £25 the swabs will... read more

Woman, 34, hasn’t eaten a vegetable in 30 YEARS due to phobia of new food

A woman who hadn’t eaten a vegetable in 30 years due to her crippling fear of new foods has been forced to change her eating habits after being warned ab... read more

Nadhim Zahawi admits MASKS could return in schools to thwart Covid this winter

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said contingency plans ‘absolutely’ includes bribing back face coverings in classrooms Face masks could be brough... read more

3 years of city living raises risk of heart failure by 43%, due to noise and air pollution, study

Living in a bustling city for just three years may raise your risk of heart failure, a study suggests. A damning body of evidence on the detriment pollution cau... read more

Hospital superbugs can be destroyed by ‘engineered’ bacteria, research suggests 

Hospital superbugs can be destroyed by ‘engineered’ bacteria that fight infections transmitted through catheters and breathing tubes, research sugge... read more

More than 140,000 children in the US had a parent or guardian die during the Covid pandemic

COVID-19 has caused more than 700,000 deaths since the virus first arrived in the U.S. early last year, and in the process has orphaned many children, a new stu... read more

Two Covid vaccines give BETTER protection than natural immunity, study claims

Covid vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity, researchers claimed today. The true extent of immunity against the coronavirus remains shrouded in... read more

Pfizer’s Covid efficacy against infection plunges to 20% after six months, data from Qatar shows

Pfizer’s Covid jab is only 20 per cent effective at stopping people getting infected after six months, real world data revealed today.  Two doses of the ... read more

ANOTHER study finds Alzheimer’s may be detectable years before symptoms begin

Alzheimer’s is detectable in healthy people years before they even start to show symptoms, another study has found. University of Glasgow researchers say ... read more

Sweden and Denmark pause use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in younger age groups

Officials in Sweden and Denmark have paused use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in younger age groups due to concerns about the shots causing rare heart inflamm... read more

Covid survivors under age 40 who lose sense of smell are more likely to regain it than older adults

COVID-19 survivors under age 40 who lose their sense of smell are more likely to regain it than older patients are, a new study suggests. Researchers at Virgini... read more

Covid US: Ex-FDA chief says Delta will be the last surge as cases fall by 33% over a month

The former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says he believes the recent Delta-fueled surge will be the final wave of the pandemic. Sp... read more

Covid US: Experts advise the White House to ABANDON plan to provide booster shots to all

Experts are urging the White House to drop its plan to roll out COVID-19 vaccine boosters to all Americans, according to a new report.   A group of vaccine ex... read more

Menopausal women taking HRT are not at greater risk of developing heart disease, scientists say

Menopausal women taking HRT are not at greater risk of developing heart disease, scientists say South Korean researchers say the benefits of HRT typically outwe... read more

Hope for dementia and Parkinson’s as scientists find drive for diseases affecting brain function

Hope for millions of patients with dementia and Parkinson’s as scientists find culprit behind nearly all neurological diseases ‘Toxic’ acid sy... read more

Woman who had an IUD inserted claims it left her looking like a burn victim

A cleaner ‘feared for her life’ after claiming to have suffered such a severe reaction to her IUD contraception that she ‘looked like a burns ... read more

UK’s daily Covid cases RISE for first time in a week: 9% jump sees 39,851 infections

Britain’s downturn in Covid cases may have come to an end, official figures suggested today as daily infections rose for the first time in a week. Departm... read more

Scientists say ‘long-term social distancing’ could curb rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs

‘Long-term social distancing’ could curb rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs but it would ruin the economy, scientists say Limiting social contac... read more

Covid vaccines 95% effective against infection and 91% against hospitalization among US veterans

COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing infections and hospitalizations among U.S. veterans, a new study finds. Researchers from the Department of Veteran... read more

Families returning from October half-term holidays could be forced to spend ANOTHER £75 on PCR tests

Families may still be forced to spend £75 on PCR tests when returning from holidays this half-term, it was claimed today.  The day two return swabs were suppo... read more