India Covid: Patients dying without oxygen amid Delhi surge
For a fourth day in a row, India has set an unwelcome world record for the number of new coronavirus...
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Dementia: ‘I just wanted to know if I would get it’
Janice, whose father had died with dementia, refused to go to the doctors, telling her daughter she would rather not...
India Covid crisis: Inside the Delhi hospital running low on beds and oxygen
India's deadly second wave is continuing to set world records for its daily total of coronavirus cases.New coronavirus infections were...
Malaria vaccine hailed as potential breakthrough
In a pre-print study with The Lancet, the research team - from Oxford, Nanoro in Burkina Faso and the US...
‘I know how happy she’d be that it’s saved’
Isabella died from cancer, aged 11, two years ago. Just after her death, the hospice in Walsall that she'd called...
Covid: Scientists find more evidence of human-to-cat transmission
Prof Margaret Hosie, from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research who was lead author of the study, said:...
One Covid vaccine cuts infection rate in all age groups
Prof Sarah Walker, chief investigator on the studies, from the University of Oxford, said: "We don't yet know exactly how...
Covid: India sees world’s highest daily cases amid oxygen shortage
Uttar Pradesh, which is also reporting a high caseload, has adopted a more conservative approach, with its high court on...
Air pollution: ‘All children have the right to breathe clean air’
A coroner has called for a change in the law after air pollution led to the death of a nine-year-old...
The beauty ideal fuelling an illicit drugs trade
For Altou, a 19-year-old model, having a ‘slim thick’ body is the key to getting more likes and more work.She’s...
Covid-19: Boris Johnson announces plan for pills to treat virus at home
Boris Johnson has announced a new "antivirals task force" to find "promising new medicines" to treat Covid by autumn.Speaking at...
Johnson & Johnson vaccine: EU regulator says blood clot very rare side effect
"One plausible explanation for the combination of blood clots and low blood platelets is an immune response, leading to a...
Covid-19: Suicide rate ‘did not rise during first lockdown’
Separate research published last week in the Lancet Psychiatry looking at suicide rates from 21 mainly high income countries, such...
Covid contracts: PPE fixer who was Tory donor named in admin error
"It's of profound public importance that we discover who has benefited from the special arrangements put in place, who has...
Covid in Uttar Pradesh: Coronavirus overwhelms India’s most populous state
With 240 million people, Uttar Pradesh is India's most populous state. Home to every sixth Indian, if it was a...
Are black women getting enough support for mental health?
Black women are more likely than white women to experience common mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, according...
Covid-19: India added to coronavirus ‘red list’ for travel
Labour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Home Affairs Committee, questioned why India was not put on the red list sooner,...
Covid: More than 10m people fully vaccinated in UK
However, he said the vaccination rate for care home staff was currently below 80% in more than half of all...
