A GP’s receptionist had to have her leg and all her toes amputated after a hot tub party gave her a deadly blood infection. Lauren Briggs, 25, from Corringham, Essex, spent an evening having fun with her friends in a hot tub in January this year. But she woke up the next day unable to breath and was … Read more
A GP’s receptionist had to have her leg and all her toes amputated after a hot tub party gave her a deadly blood infection. Lauren Briggs, 25, from Corringham, Essex, spent an evening having fun with her friends in a hot tub in January this year. But she woke up the next day unable to breath and was … Read more
Indian covid sufferers are now contracting deadly ‘black fungus’ infection with spike causing a shortage of the lifesaving drugs needed to treat it Mucormycosis is often most aggressive when immune system is weakened In Ahmedabad city, cases are up by four to five times compared to pre-Covid Gujarat has ordered special wards to treat the … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK BARBAROSSA by Jonathan Dimbleby (Viking £25, 640pp) Moscow on a midsummer’s night in 1941 was a balmy place to be. For the discerning, there was Chekhov’s Three Sisters playing to full houses, while opera lovers had a choice between Rigoletto and La Traviata. Others fished for their suppers on the banks … Read more
India’s coronavirus variant may not be fully to blame for the country’s devastating second wave, according to scientists who say a ‘perfect storm’ of Covid complacency, a disregard for social distancing and lack of preparedness by the Government has fuelled the crisis. Doctors on the frontline claim the B.1.617 strain is responsible for the raging second … Read more
India’s coronavirus variant may not be fully responsible for the country’s devastating second wave, according to scientists who say a ‘perfect storm’ of Covid complacency, a disregard for social distancing and lack of preparedness by the Government has fuelled the crisis. Doctors on the frontline have blamed the B.1.617 strain for the raging second wave which … Read more
The strange contents of a medicine bottle from 19th century Japan have been discovered thanks to a unique x-ray analysis. Antique glass vials from a medical kit belonging to Ogata Koan, a leading proponent for Western medicine in late feudal Japan, had jammed shut from age. Researchers at Osaka University bombarded a bottle with muons, … Read more
Maxine Waters, 82, is facing an intense amount of backlash for her Saturday comments calling for rioters to engage in ‘more confrontation’ as they await the ruling against Derek Chauvin. ‘We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational,’ Waters demanded of rioters as … Read more
Ongoing Covid-19 infection fears are predicted to significantly increase car usage on the daily school run, resulting in a rise in congestion and toxic air pollution around the school gates, says new research. Almost one in four school leaders polled in a recent study believe that concerns about new waves of coronavirus infections will drive increased … Read more
A device the size of a watch can analyse sweat and spot signs of an impending, and deadly, cytokine storm that is caused by Covid-19 and other infections. The phenomenon happens when chemicals in the bloodstream, called cytokines, multiply rapidly and run out of control. These small chemicals are designed to restrict and control the … Read more