Fewer than 4% of people in Wuhan with no covid history have antibodies

Fewer than four percent of people in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus pandemic began last year, have antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19, a new study suggests.  The first epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the virus quickly spread to thousands in Wuhan, overwhelming its health care system and forcing weeks of draconian lockdowns.  … Read more

Heart inflammation in athletes who survive COVID-19 is NOT a major concern, say US doctors

Doctors say heart inflammation in American athletes who survived COVID-19 is not a major concern. Recent reports have found increased rates of the condition, known as myocarditis, in young athletes infected with coronavirus.  Now, a team of cardiologists led by Massachusetts General Hospital, have suggested this is no need to due wide-based screening or to cancel … Read more

How a 65p pill can end the terrifying delusions that haunt thousands with Parkinson’s  

Ghostly figures that drift in and out of the shadows. Disembodied voices and the doorbell constantly ringing when no one’s there. An alarming smell of smoke or the feeling of insects crawling all over the skin. All of these are the disturbing and often terrifying hallucinations commonly described by Parkinson’s disease sufferers. The main symptoms … Read more

Thousands of Britons with mouth cancer will be spared chemotherapy thanks to immune-boosting drug

Thousands of Britons with deadly mouth cancer will be spared gruelling chemotherapy thanks to immune-boosting drug Treatment offers fresh hope to patients whose cancer is deemed inoperable Patients currently offered chemotherapy and infusions of potent cancer drugs Immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab can now help some patients live longer  By Eve Simmons For The Mail On Sunday Published: … Read more

Has Covid killed off the flu?

It was feared by many to be the perfect winter storm, a nightmare situation that would push our health service over the edge: the ‘twin-demic’ of flu, which kills about 10,000 Britons every year, and a second deadly wave of Covid-19. Such was the concern that the Government rolled out the biggest flu vaccination programme … Read more

Twin left fighting for his life with cystic fibrosis has finally got £28,000 drug that will save him

A sigh, or a yawn. A great, big, chest-expanding, lungs-full- to-burst gulp of air.  The simple pleasure of taking a deep, satisfying breath is something most of us would find fairly unremarkable. For Anthony Usher, however, doing so represents something near miraculous.  The 31-year-old from Liverpool has cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic condition that destroys … Read more

Coronavirus cases are rising in 79% of US states and territories, CDC director warns

Coronavirus cases are on the rise in nearly 80 percent of US states and territories, a top US official warned on Friday.  ‘New #COVID19 cases are increasing,’ said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr Robert Redfield said via Twitter on Friday.  Specifically, ‘79% of U.S. jurisdictions reported increasing cases as of October … Read more