Amazon bans TikTok from employee devices with access to company emails citing ‘security risks’ Amazon sent its employees a memo that bans them from using TikTok It mandates staff remove the app from devices with access to company emails Staff has until July 10 to comply or will lose access to their mobile emails By … Read more
Woodland Trust fears lockdown littering will ‘hugely increase’ the risks of scarring the countryside – and hurting animals Woodland Trust says there has been a surge of damaging behaviour at its sites The cost of clearing up damage for the year is projected to be about £134,000 The trust said that the litter includes broken glass … Read more
The odds that a New York City resident admitted to a hospital for COVID-19 will die vary wildly, depending on what hospital they go to, a New York Times investigation has revealed. Hospital data obtained by the Times shows that mortality rates for COVID-19 patients are as low as 11 percent at private Manhattan hospitals, … Read more
Public transit may be the reason that black people are dying from the novel coronavirus at higher rates than whites, two new studies suggest. African Americans are more than 2.5 times likely than Caucasians to ride commuter rails, subways and buses – and 3.5 times more likely to die of the virus. One study found … Read more
EU risks angering Donald Trump with plan to BAN American travellers when it reopens on July 1 but welcome those from countries with lower infections rates – including China The United States, Russia, and several other countries are considered too risky The list of safe countries was put together by senior diplomats in Brussels The … Read more
EU risks angering Donald Trump with plan to BAN American travellers when it reopens on July 1 but welcome those from countries with lower infections rates – including China The United States, Russia, and several other countries are considered too risky The list of safe countries was put together by senior diplomats in Brussels The … Read more
A mother’s obesity may raise liver cancer risks for generations to come, mouse study suggests Researchers fed mice a high-fat diet so they would become obese and then exposed them to a liver carcinogen The diet led to an over-expression of a gene that is abnormally expressed in various types of cancer This increased odds of the … Read more
Americans may be overestimating their risk of contracting the novel coronavirus, a controversial new study from California suggests. Researchers found that, on average, a person who has a single contact with an infected individual has a one in about 4,000 chance of becoming sick, without using preventive measures such as social distancing or wearing a mask. … Read more
The failure of health watchdogs to clamp down on companies selling weight loss injections may have put thousands of unwitting Britons at risk of potentially life-threatening health problems, experts have warned. The medical jabs have been heavily promoted by reality TV stars, including The Only Way Is Essex’s Gemma Collins, to millions of social media … Read more
Spending 30 minutes less time sitting down a day may cut the risks of dying from cancer by 8% – and replacing it with a half-hour workout may reduce risks by 31%, study finds Researchers looked at the activity levels of 8,000 adults and the association between movement and cancer death Those who didn’t die … Read more