An estimated 132 million COVID vaccines were given to people in Britain in 2021. Yet despite this, over a year into the UK’s vaccination programme, a significant number of people still don’t have any vaccine-based protection against the coronavirus. Around one in ten eligible people in the UK still haven’tContinue Reading
Many people may have experienced languishing without even knowing what it was. New Africa/ Shutterstock If you’ve been feeling restless, apathetic or even emotionally empty since the pandemic began, you may be “languishing”. Languishing is described as an emotional state of limbo, aimlessness and low mood, which can last forContinue Reading
200 units or 10cc of insulin from the 1930s manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis – USA. Walter Cicchetti / Alamy Stock Photo This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast tells the story of the monstrous egos and toxic rivalries behind the discovery of insulin. YouContinue Reading
An urgent appeal has gone out for host families to help local teenagers who might otherwise end up sleeping on the streets this winter. Families across North Devon and Torridge are desperately needed to provide short term emergency accommodation for young people aged from 16 to 19 who have nowhereContinue Reading
US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh speaks about Labor Unions during an event in the East Room of the White House September 8, 2021, in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The Labor Department has vowed to use its authority to protect workers from Covid, after theContinue Reading
Targeting the biological causes of ageing could be one method for better treating multimorbidity. oneinchpunch/ Shutterstock Over half of UK adults over the age of 65 live with two or more long-term health conditions – commonly known as multimorbidity. People living with multimorbidity not only have a shorter life expectancy,Continue Reading
The highly transmissible omicron variant is going to be a “very difficult challenge” for Hong Kong as the city sticks to its zero-Covid policy, a former U.S. diplomat told CNBC. There will likely be more opposition to “draconian measures” given that the variant appears to be less dangerous, said KurtContinue Reading
VGstockstudio/Shutterstock Two years into the pandemic, most of us are fed up. COVID case rates are higher than they’ve ever been and hospitalisation rates are once again rising rapidly in many countries. Against this bleak picture, we yearn to get back to normal. We’d like to meet friends in aContinue Reading
Fizkes/Shutterstock Most of us know that horrible feeling of tiredness, headache, sweating, nausea and sensitivity to light – the dreaded hangover. For decades researchers have been exploring potential cures for hangovers induced by alcohol. Now a new systematic review of randomised control trials has revealed what the evidence says –Continue Reading
Staff at CSL are working in the lab on November 08, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia, where they will begin manufacturing AstraZeneca-Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine. Darrian Traynor | Getty Images A researcher in Cyprus has discovered a strain of the coronavirus that combines the delta and omicron variant, Bloomberg News reportedContinue Reading
