Health

[ad_1] A former Supreme Court judge has come under fire after telling a woman with stage 4 bowel cancer that her life was “less valuable” than others during an on-screen discussion about the price of coronavirus lockdowns. Jonathan Sumption, a prominent anti-lockdown activist, made the remarks during a BBC One …

[ad_1] HHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said the UK is “almost on the home stretch” with 324,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines administered in the space of 24 hours. More than 3.5 million people in the UK have already received their first dose of a vaccine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, …

[ad_1] Anas Sarwar, a 37-year-old former dentist and member of the Scottish Parliament, prepares his post today to become the next Labor leader in Scotland, as he says the cause of equality, not independence, should be high on the agenda politics. Sarwar was lost in the leadership race four years …

[ad_1] Irresponsible companies are exploiting looser lockdown regulations to drive thousands of nonessential workers to sometimes busy workplaces, with little chance of the nation’s safety watchdog taking enforcement action. Analysis by the Observer shows that Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors have not delivered compliance notices to companies for Covid …

[ad_1] All three rapid COVID testing centers in Luton have been closed due to snow in the area, the council said, while other parts of England have also been awakened by snowfall. Confirming the decision on Twitter, the city council said it would close the centers “for the safety of …

[ad_1] David Parrott is only 19 years old and sits isolated with an oxygen mask that helps breathe his lungs devastated by COVID. Sitting alone on bay 5 gives you too much time to think. And his young head is filled with worrying thoughts about how his health could be …

[ad_1] US Health Secretary Alex Azar warned Donald Trump in a letter that last week’s attack on the Capitol threatened the administration’s legacy, and urged the president to support a peaceful transfer of power. In the two-page formal resignation letter, dated January 12, Azar recited what he saw as the …

[ad_1] For a few hours this week, we were given a glimpse of the closely guarded secret at the center of the UK vaccination program. It was courtesy of Scottish government, which published its vaccination plan on Wednesday. The plan included detailed figures for the number of vaccines which would …

[ad_1] Some variants of Covid-19 may “outperform” vaccines, the government’s main scientific adviser warned. At a press conference at 10 Downing Street, Sir Patrick Vallance said that certain strains in the future may “bypass” part of the existing immune system. But it revealed that it was “really quite easy” to …

[ad_1] South African and Brazilian variants ‘may allow virus to bypass natural immune response’ Some of the mutations seen in variants of the coronavirus from Brazil and South Africa appear to allow the virus to bypass some of people’s immune responses, a leading virologist said. Professor Wendy Barclay, who advises …