Thunderstorms will surge across much of Britain today and tomorrow as the Met Office issued yellow weather warnings ahead of a heatwave next week. Downpours could cause flooding this afternoon in a huge weather front across the west of the country stretching from Cornwall to Glasgow and parts of Northern Ireland. The tempest will move … Read more
Nearly 92 percent of patients severely ill and hospitalized with coronavirus were discharged after they were treated with an antibody drug, new data reveals. The Mayo Clinic study was small, but the improvements were considerable, and rapid. Ten out of 12 patients went from needing some form of oxygen support to discharged from the hospital within … Read more
More than 18 million Americans don’t have adequate health insurance to cover the cost of medical care if they catch coronavirus, a new study reveals. Black and other minority Americans are both at far greater risk of becoming severely ill from COVID-19 and of being uninsured or underinsured. Unemployment shot up to 14.7 percent of … Read more
Met Office issues severe weather warning for flooding and travel chaos as parts of UK brace for a month’s rainfall in less than six hours today Yellow warning issued for rain has been issued across Cornwall and south Wales this afternoon and tomorrow Met Office is warning people to take care with flood warnings in … Read more
Bald men could be at a higher risk of dying from coronavirus because male hormones help the virus attack cells, scientists have revealed. The hormone Androgen, which causes hair loss in men, has been linked to some of the worst cases of Covid-19 in Spanish hospitals. The discovery could be named the Gabrin Sign, after … Read more
Having a faulty gene linked to dementia may double the risk of becoming severely-ill with the coronavirus, a study has claimed. Experts found carriers of the APOE e4 gene were more likely to have a severe case of Covid-19, than those with a more common variant. The same faulty gene is already known to increase … Read more
A mother has revealed how people mistook her son’s severe facial eczema for sunburn during a family holiday, before finding relief in a £7.99 cream that she claims drastically soothed his skin from the painful and itchy symptoms. Cherise Sharp, 28, a full-time mother to newborn Rex and two year-old Roan, from Kent, revealed how … Read more
Pregnant women are at no greater risk of developing severe COVID-19 than other women, according to research. Some 427 mothers-to-be were admitted to NHS hospitals with the life-threatening coronavirus between March 1 and April 14. Only one in ten needed treatment in ICU, which is no higher than the figure for non-pregnant women of the same … Read more
Current smokers and those with a type of lung disease are at an increased risk of suffering severe complications and dying from coronavirus, new research suggests. Over the past several months, numerous controversial studies have claimed that cigarettes may be protective, potentially due to nicotine. But researchers from University College London in the UK found … Read more
A trial of the antiviral drug remesivir has resulted ‘positive data’ for treating coronavirus patients, its maker, Gilead Sciences, said Wednesday. Gilead was expected this week to announce the results of a clinical trial testing the drug, which was originally developed to treat Ebola patients, in people severely ill with coronavirus. Half of the 397 … Read more