Breast milk can contain COVID antibodies – good news for babies

Irina Polonina/Shutterstock Although babies and young children are at lower risk of getting very sick with COVID-19 compared to older adults, a small proportion of babies will require hospital care. There has been immense interest among scientists, health-care workers and new mothers especially in understanding whether potentially protective antibodies againstContinue Reading

MORE than a million hospital appointments were cancelled due to last winter’s Covid wave. Now, medics warn “everything possible” must be done to stop widespread postponements this year. Getty January was the worst affected month with 144,000 cancellations at 37 hospitals[/caption] The impact on eye and heart clinics meant thousandsContinue Reading

Amazing to think the powers that be, British Horseracing Authority, officially ‘ended’ our 2021 turf-flat season yesterday with a six-race ‘Champions’ fixture at Ascot and today there is no racing ‘on the level’ in England; mind you it will be a bit like old times! Sunday racing wasn’t introduced untilContinue Reading

Dunleavy Vineyards are launching a crowdfunding campaign to buy a small field on the outskirts of the city of Bristol! Established by Bristol resident Ingrid Bates thirteen years ago, Dunleavy vineyards have become a success story in the Bristol and Somerset food and drink scene. Rather than focussing on ‘directContinue Reading

The Husbandry School is set in the green rolling hills between Ashburton and Newton Abbot and is run by Carole and Jonty Williams. The Husbandry School is not an upmarket dating agency or finishing school for eligible young ladies in but draws upon the old English word hūsbōnda dating backContinue Reading