Covid: Bring back rules amid rising cases, urge NHS chiefs
Under the government's Plan A for dealing with Covid in England this winter, which is currently in place, booster jabs...
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Severe pregnancy illness: ‘I won’t have another baby’
The UK's biggest study into severe sickness during pregnancy is published today, based on the data of thousands of women...
Aneurin Bevan health board: Trainee doctors ‘scared to come to work’
The report said the issues were not limited to care at the Grange, as the other hospitals within the health...
Covid-19: New mutation of Delta variant under close watch in UK
If it becomes clearer that it could be more transmissible and escape some of the built up immunity from past...
‘Heaviest’ kidneys removed in high-risk operation
A man who is believed to have had the heaviest kidneys on record has spoken of his determination to get...
Covid: Australia’s Flying Doctors take vaccines to vast remote areas
Australia’s vaccination rollout has really picked up in recent months, partly due to Covid outbreaks in Sydney and Melbourne. But...
Covid: Is the pace of the vaccine booster rollout too slow?
Mr Roberts said: "The latest data from the UK Health Security Agency shows that, for the over-75 population, we are...
Prof Sarah Gilbert, Covid vaccine creator: Now let’s take on 12 more diseases
The old-school method of developing vaccines means you must go back to the raw materials and start from scratch for...
Investigation ordered into Wolverhampton Covid lab test failings
The UKHSA said about 400,000 samples had been processed by the privately-run lab and it estimated 43,000 people may have...
Covid: Lateral flow tests more accurate than first thought, study finds
Since they were introduced in secondary schools in England in March, NHS Test and Trace figures show 103,409 LFT tests...
Covid: New WHO group may be last chance to find virus origins
Almost two years since the start of the pandemic, we still don't know where , when or how the deadly...
Covid: Scientists targeted with abuse during pandemic
Fiona Fox, chief executive of the UK Science Media Centre, which provides scientific comment and briefings to journalists, said it...
Laser vagina menopause therapy shows no benefit in trial
The authors, Drs Marisa Adelman and Ingrid Nygaard, from the University of Utah School of Medicine, said: "The widespread clinical...
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock given United Nations role
In a letter posted online by Mr Hancock, Ms Songwe said the "acceleration of vaccines that has led the UK...
Covid: Not my job to sugarcoat advice, Sir Patrick Vallance says
He said he and fellow scientists were labelled as "gloom-mongers" by some parts of the media, and added: "Maybe we...
Covid: UK’s early response worst public health failure ever, MPs say
Asked who was accountable for mistakes made, Greg Clark, the chair of the Science and Technology Committee, said that in...
Pregnant women urged to get Covid vaccine by NHS England
Pregnant women are being urged to get the Covid vaccine, following concerns about the growing number with the virus needing...
Covid-19: Two million booster jabs given in England
Dr Jenny Harries, head of the newly formed UK Health Security Agency, warned this week that the level of immunity...
