Coronavirus patients may still be contagious up to EIGHT DAYS after symptoms disappear, study finds

Coronavirus may still be contagious for up to EIGHT DAYS after symptoms disappear, study of 16 Chinese patients finds Researchers studied 16 patients with mild cases of coronavirus who were treated at PLA General Hospital in Beijing from January 28 to February 9 Half of patients were carriers of the virus even after their symptoms … Read more

£42k-a-year Eton College offers FREE online study courses to UK teenagers

£42k-a-year Eton College offers FREE online study courses to UK teenagers during coronavirus lockdown and makes empty boarding houses available for key workers Eton College headmaster announces free online self-study courses to teenagers  The courses will initially be for Year 11 and 13 pupils who were due to take exams Exams are cancelled this year … Read more

£42k-a-year Eton College offers FREE online study courses to UK teenagers

£42k-a-year Eton College offers FREE online study courses to UK teenagers during coronavirus lockdown and makes empty boarding houses available for key workers Eton College headmaster announces free online self-study courses to teenagers  The courses will initially be for Year 11 and 13 pupils who were due to take exams Exams are cancelled this year … Read more

Talking therapy could cure IBS better than drugs, study reveals

Talking therapy could cure IBS better than drugs, study reveals after patients who had CBT over the phone or online experienced less symptoms Study of more than 500 patients found talking greatly reduced symptoms Irritable bowel syndrome causes diarrhoea, constipation or both But experts say less than half benefit from supplements and laxatives  By Victoria Allen … Read more

Lockdowns are the best hope to slow the spread of coronavirus, suggests new Chinese study

Lockdowns and travel restrictions are the best methods to slow the spread of coronavirus, a new study of China suggests. Researchers from the University of Oxford in the UK and Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, found that in Wuhan – the epicenter of the outbreak – restriction on travels came too late. Once the locked … Read more

Acupuncture is up to four times better at easing migraines than drugs, new study suggests

Acupuncture is up to four times better at easing migraines than drugs, new study suggests Patients given acupuncture suffer two fewer migraines a month, study finds  Dr Heather Angus-Leppan says it is ‘an acceptable evidence – based treatment’ Study used acupuncture along with ‘sham’ test and usual migraine treatments  By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:40 … Read more

Birds thrive in towns by having big brains or lots of chicks, study finds

To thrive in urban environments birds need to either develop large brains like seagulls or have more offspring like pigeons, a study finds.  Researchers from the University of Gothenburg say big brains or lots of offspring are the two strategies that are key to survive in an unnatural environment.  The team say a number of … Read more

Birds thrive in towns by having big brains or lots of chicks, study finds

To thrive in urban environments birds need to either develop large brains like seagulls or have more offspring like pigeons, a study finds.  Researchers from the University of Gothenburg say big brains or lots of offspring are the two strategies that are key to survive in an unnatural environment.  The team say a number of … Read more

Speech recognition systems from five tech companies are bias towards people of color, study reveals 

AI speech recognition systems from five major tech companies are biased toward people of color, as they make twice as many errors transcribing speech from black people than they do from whites, study reveals Study found systems from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and IBM are biased Fed technologies some 2,000 speech samples from blacks and … Read more

GMB’s Susanna Reid reveals she won’t push her teenage sons to study during COVID-19 isolation

Susanna Reid has revealed that she won’t be pushing her teenage sons to study during the family’s isolation, after one of her children showed COVID-19 symptoms. Appearing live on Good Morning Britain from her home for a fourth day on Friday, the presenter, 49, revealed that while advice has been given for children to stick … Read more