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Face masks should be worn OUTSIDE – especially when it’s windy...

Face masks should be worn outside when it is windy to thwart the spread of Covid, academics say. Indian experts say even a slight breeze...

Are thousands of children wrongly being told to stay at home...

Thousands of children with the sniffles may wrongly be being told to stay at home over concerns they have Covid, scientists have suggested. Secondary school...

UK’s daily Covid cases jump by 14% on last week to...

Britain's coronavirus crisis is continuing to tick upwards, with new daily infections jumping by nearly 14 per cent today. Department of Health bosses posted 38,520 positive...

It’s not just long Covid… sepsis can also cause crippling symptoms...

When Laura Williams woke in the middle of the night with vomiting and diarrhoea, she assumed it was simply a tummy bug.As a podiatrist whose...

The experts weigh in on how to beat our obesity crisis:...

Almost a third of people in this country aren’t just a bit overweight, they are officially classed as obese.It’s a sobering statistic. In fact,...

Anguish of the stillbirth dilemma: It’s an agonising decision so many...

Had Alex Barr’s daughter Marnie been born a day earlier, she would — in all likelihood — still be alive.Alex, 33, a nurse, was...

Electronic noses that can sniff out disease: Inside the lab of...

A non-invasive test that you use to ‘smell’ illness from a breath sample sounds like the stuff of Star Trek’s Dr McCoy and sci-fi. But,...

Why probiotics might help tackle the side-effects of chemotherapy: Live bacteria...

A course of antibiotics may fight off an infection, but it can also leave you feeling under the weather.For as well as killing off the...

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