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With pretty much every major running event cancelled or postponed in 2020, it’s understandable to want to make up for lost time once it’s safe to do so. There’s nothing quite like the buzz of a mass-participation running event, and hopefully they’ll be back on the calendar as normal in 2021. They’re going to be […]
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Weeks of social distancing at home and concern about the pandemic bringing you down? You’re not alone. A group of researchers from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Harvard Medical School released results from a survey they conducted in the second half of May, and 55% of people said they were more stressed than […]
The number of people in England waiting longer than six weeks for tests and scans increased five-fold between March and April. The Labour Party is calling for a plan to deal with this backlog in non-Covid services. NHS England’s constitution says patients should wait no longer than six weeks for diagnostic tests. The government said […]
As more job sectors in South Africa begin to open, the risk of infection also becomes greater — a new study reminds us that we shouldn’t feel safe and let our guards down when we’re in close proximity to someone that doesn’t ‘look or sound’ like they have COVID-19. South Africa currently has 80 412 identified […]
Children and adolescents are half as likely to catch the coronavirus, the largest review of the evidence shows. The findings, by UCL and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, will feed into the debate about how schools are reopened. Children also appear less likely to spread the virus, but the team said there […]
More than half a million people have accessed online training that aims to prevent suicide in the last three weeks alone, a charity has said. The Zero Suicide Alliance said 503,000 users completed its online course during lockdown. It aims to help spot the signs that a person may need help. It comes as health […]
More than half of Scotland’s coronavirus deaths are now happening in care homes, according to new figures. Data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed that 338 of the 656 deaths recorded between 20 and 26 April were in care homes. The figures bring the total number of people to have died with confirmed […]
Roughly half of working Americans say they’ve gone to work sick within the past 12 months, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. Forty-seven percent of Americans who work part- or full-time say they’ve gone to work sick in the last year because they couldn’t take time off or because they felt they shouldn’t do so, according […]
A drug that halves a woman’s risk of breast cancer continues to work long after they stop taking it, say researchers. Anastrozole blocks the production of the hormone oestrogen, which fuels the growth of many breast cancers. It is already available on the NHS, but researchers at Queen Mary University of London said only a […]
Earlier this week Amazon dropped the price of the Charge 3 to under the magic £100 mark. With the launch of its Black Friday sale proper, that price has sunk even further to £75 (Fitbit RRP £129.99). Considering one of the best Black Friday deals of last year – Fitbit or otherwise – was £80 for […]
Former professional footballers are three and a half times more likely to die of dementia than people of the same age range in the general population, according to new research. Experts at Glasgow University have been investigating fears that heading the ball could be linked to brain injuries. The study began after claims that former […]
Half of A&Es in England are not good enough – and there are no guarantees services will get better despite the extra money going into the NHS, the regulator says. The Care Quality Commission said people were turning to A&E in a crisis because of a lack of support in the community. It said services […]
More than half of patients can now survive a deadly skin cancer that was considered untreatable just a decade ago, say UK doctors. Ten years ago only one-in-20 patients would live for five years after being diagnosed with late-stage melanoma. Most would die in months. But drugs to harness the body’s immune system mean 52% […]
The introduction of minimum pricing for alcohol in Scotland appears to have cut drinking, a study suggests. Since May 2018, the price of alcohol has had to be at least 50p per unit. The study published in the British Medical Journal looked at how much alcohol was bought in shops before and after the move […]