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An illuminating 200th birthday tour with the Lady of the Lamp: Exploring Florence Nightingale’s family home and the museum dedicated to her Next week marks the 200th birthday of inspirational nurse Florence Nightingale Her former family home in Derbyshire is now a B&B – you can stay in her bedroom London’s St Thomas’s Hospital hosts … Read more
Crushing fatigue. Lung and heart damage. Strokes. Even brain damage. These are just a few of the frightening complications of coronavirus that indicate infection could, in some cases, lead to long-lasting, debilitating illness in those who survive it, a growing number of doctors are claiming. Data gathered by UK researchers suggests primary symptoms themselves can come … Read more
The World Health Organization has thrown its support behind controversial trials in which healthy volunteers are infected with coronavirus and risk falling badly unwell. Bosses at the global health body claim the approach could rapidly accelerate vaccine development, which they say make it ethically justified. The WHO has set out eight criteria that would need … Read more
The UK has today become the first country in Europe to record 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus after it announced 649 more victims today. Now at a total of 30,076 dead because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the UK has hit the grim milestone before either Spain or Italy, which were widely considered to have the … Read more
The UK has today become the first country in Europe to record 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus after it announced 649 more victims today. Now at a total of 30,076 dead because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the UK has hit the grim milestone before either Spain or Italy, which were widely considered to have the … Read more
Doctors have called for an inquiry into how the British Government has handled the coronavirus crisis as its death toll surges higher than any country in Europe. Detailed statistics yesterday confirmed that more than 30,000 Britons had died of COVID-19 by April 24, almost two weeks ago, and the number of victims continues to rise. … Read more
Five years, minimum. That’s how long it usually takes to develop a vaccine. Yet of the 78 being worked on for Covid-19, five are already in trials — and not just in labs; most are being tested on humans. Last month, a microbiology researcher at the University of Oxford became the first UK volunteer to … Read more
Five years, minimum. That’s how long it usually takes to develop a vaccine. Yet of the 78 being worked on for Covid-19, five are already in trials — and not just in labs; most are being tested on humans. Last month, a microbiology researcher at the University of Oxford became the first UK volunteer to … Read more
A professor at Imperial College London claims there may never be a coronavirus vaccine and that governments will be left to respond to future outbreaks of the pathogen with regional or national lockdowns. Dr David Nabarro, a special envoy to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Covid-19, said no ‘absolute assumption’ can be made ‘that a vaccine … Read more
A professor at Imperial College London claims there may never be a coronavirus vaccine and governments will have to respond to future outbreaks with lockdowns. Dr David Nabarro, a special envoy to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Covid-19, said no ‘absolute assumption’ can be made ‘that a vaccine will appear at all’. The global health professor … Read more