Researchers developing digital tools to predict and prepare for the next infectious disease outbreaks have received a new boost, amid warnings that climate change will only make the risk of a pandemic worse. The Wellcome Trust, a London-based charity focused on health
It was the 1970s cliché of pampas grass, dinner parties and keys-in-a-fruit bowl but now suburban ‘swinging’ is returning according to a new study … which psychotherapists attribute to the post-pandemic gloom. Popular among the baby boomer suburban elite of the 1970s,
Boris Johnson tonight claimed Brexit “helped save lives” during the Covid pandemic. In an interview with Tory MP Nadine Dorries on TalkTV, the former PM said the UK’s departure from the EU allowed Britain to approve a vaccine more quickly than the
Governments may have to reserve drugs and vaccines for the World Health Organization to distribute in poorer countries to avoid a repeat of the “catastrophic failure” during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an early draft of a global pandemic agreement. One of
An outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza among mink on a farm in Spain has raised fears the virus could evolve and adapt to mammals — triggering another pandemic. Thanks to a difference between birds and mammals in the receptors the virus binds
A German doctor was sentenced late Monday to two years and nine months in prison for illegally issuing more than 4,000 people with exemptions from wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic. A regional court in the southwestern town of Weinheim confirmed Tuesday
Dr Tim Cooksley, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, has said the NHS is in a worse state now than it was at the peak of the Covid pandemic. He said medical staff are “pressurised like never before” and called on
Chris Whitty ‘knows what he’s talking about’ says Dr Amir The Covid pandemic has been blamed for thousands of middle-aged people dying from heart conditions because they did not get statins or blood pressure medicines. Chief Medical Officer Sir Chris Whitty is
Comment on this story Comment Pandemic restaurant-going was like a series of twists on the old Yogi Berra quip about how nobody goes there anymore because it’s too crowded. First, restaurants stood cavernously empty by mandate as we pined for them. Then
Comment on this story Comment So much has been lost during the pandemic, and perhaps nothing greater than the human touch, the joy of being surrounded by others, the magic moments that surprise you, making life a little brighter. And for the