WOMEN are being urged to book in a smear test to reduce their risk of deadly cancer. The NHS today issued a call for anyone eligible for a cervical screening to come forward. Getty Practice Nurse/doctor doing smear test[/caption] Around 4.6million women — a third — haven’t taken up theContinue Reading
Siberian Art/Shutterstock More than five billion people globally have now been vaccinated against COVID-19. Of course, many of the three billion or so who haven’t may not yet have been able to access a COVID vaccine, particularly in low-income countries. But a portion of those who are unvaccinated have chosenContinue Reading
Bivalent vaccines target omicron alongside the original strain of COVID. Lithiumphoto/Shutterstock Vaccines have played a major role in mitigating the harms of the COVID pandemic since their rollout began just over two years ago. They’re estimated to have saved tens of millions of lives around the globe. The initial cropContinue Reading
CI Photos/Shutterstock The heavily mutated omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was first detected in late 2021. Due to the many mutations in the spike protein (a protein on the surface of SARS-CoV-2 that allows the virus to attach to our cells) omicron was able to quicklyContinue Reading
BRITS have been urged to protect themselves against norovirus after cases surged by almost a third in two weeks. Infections are 34 per cent higher than the five-season average and have surpassed pre Covid levels, new data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows. UKHSA The chart above showsContinue Reading
Rindang Art/Shutterstock MP Andrew Bridgen was suspended from the Conservative party on January 11 for persistent misinformation about COVID vaccines, including numerous false claims around their safety. The final straw appears to have been his comments comparing the vaccination programme to the Holocaust. With more than 13 billion doses administeredContinue Reading
Data suggests fathers took on more childcare during the pandemic. SeventyFour/Shutterstock Recent data from the UK’s Office for National Statistics suggests the COVID pandemic may have triggered a substantial rise in the number of stay-at-home dads across the country. One in nine stay-at-home parents were fathers in 2022, compared withContinue Reading
SPANISH holidaymakers have been advised to wear face masks indoors in venues in Andalusia. Andalusia, a popular region with British holidaymakers, has recommended mask wearing inside, as Covid cases rise in the country. Getty Spanish holidaymakers have been advised to wear face masks indoors in venues in Andalusia[/caption] The governmentContinue Reading
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock It’s estimated that 2.1 million people are currently living with long COVID in the UK. Symptoms can include breathlessness, fatigue, chest pains, loss of taste and smell, and “brain fog”. These symptoms continue to develop and fluctuate over time after the initial COVID infection has passed. BeingContinue Reading
ONE of the hallmark symptoms of the novel coronavirus has been the loss of taste and/or smell. I too lost my sense of smell when recovering recently from Covid-19 – leaving me unable to smell a thing for several days. Sara Alhariri I tried popular methods I found on TikTokContinue Reading
