Health

[ad_1] 30-minute rapid coronavirus tests could miss up to 30% of infections, based on a clinical assessment. Lateral flow tests generate a swab result without the need for laboratory equipment and are currently being tested in Liverpool. They are lining up as a way to significantly expand testing of people …

[ad_1] People earning more than £ 19,500 a year would pay more under a £ 40bn tax increase scheme to boost public finances in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. The Resolution Foundation advocates a series of fiscal changes in the middle of the decade to prevent a return to …

[ad_1] A nurse has been accused of killing eight babies and attempting to kill ten more. Lucy Letby, 30, was arrested again on Tuesday following an investigation into infant deaths and non-fatal collapses in an NHS neonatal unit. The development came after a three-year investigation into infant deaths at Countess …

[ad_1] The Labor leader has been working hard to make progress on the huge advantage that the prime minister and the Conservatives built after the general election last December. That seemed to have paid off as Labor recently outperformed rivals in some major polls as the government was forced to …

[ad_1] Boris Johnson’s top doctor in Downing Street resigned after a bitter behind-the-scenes power struggle. In a great blow to him Prime Minister, its communications director Lee Cain has resigned and will step down at the end of the year. Just hours earlier there were reports of bitter arguments within …

[ad_1] Thousands of hospital staff members will join the campaign to vaccinate all adults in England against the coronavirus and will be deployed to mass vaccination centers to vaccinate up to 5,000 people a day, said NHS officials involved in the plans. . The NHS intends to use football stadiums, …

[ad_1] A nurse has been charged with eight counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder in connection with the death of a baby in a Cheshire hospital. Lucy Letby, 30, is due to appear in Warrington Magistrates Court on Thursday, a Cheshire police spokesman said. A statement from …

[ad_1] A mother whose disabled child died after a “vortex” of decline when visits to her care center were disrupted has demanded greater access for other families to avoid similar deaths during the pandemic. Melanie Macfarlane, whose son Jamie died on October 30, said she believed he would likely be …

[ad_1] Sadly, fifty-three more people have died in hospitals in our region after contracting coronavirus. Every day England’s NHS provides an update on Covid-19 related deaths in hospital trusts across the country. These are cases in which a patient has tested positive or in which Covid-19 is mentioned on their …

[ad_1] Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease expert, predicted that positive data from a second Covid-19 vaccine could come quickly after the robust results of this week’s trial from Pfizer and BioNTech. The American biotech company Moderna will begin evaluating data from its phase 3 vaccine trials “within a week,” …