The healing power of gardens

The turning point in Robin Hanbury-Tenison’s six-week battle with the complications of Covid-19 was a trip to a ‘secret garden’. He was hooked up to life-saving equipment as staff wheeled him from the intensive care unit (ICU) to an outdoor oasis of calm in the hospital, a moment Robin now credits with his recovery. ‘I … Read more

The painful truth about dentistry in lockdown

Lesley Platts, an NHS occupational therapist who is managing hard-pressed care services in London, is suffering an additional burden — a nasty toothache that her dentist won’t touch. Her dentist isn’t being difficult — it is because they are under lockdown and banned from physically seeing patients. Lesley, 50, is one of around 600,000 patients … Read more

Vaccination rates for Michigan children have fallen 20% amid the coronavirus pandemic

The number of five-month-old children getting vaccinations has plummeted to below 50 percent in Michigan amid the coronavirus pandemic, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data released Monday reveals.  For the last three years, about two thirds of five-month-olds in the state have been up-to-date on their shots. But as of May 2020, only … Read more

British teenagers are among the worst in Europe for sleep problems, new report suggests 

British teenagers are among the worst in Europe for sleep problems, new report suggests By Kate Pickles Health Correspondent For The Daily Mail Published: 00:00 BST, 19 May 2020 | Updated: 00:00 BST, 19 May 2020 British teenagers suffer some of the worst sleep problems in Europe with many hooked on social media, a major … Read more

More than 35,000 Floridians waited up to two weeks to get ‘unreliable’ coronavirus test results

A Florida-based health care system says the results of more than 35,000 coronavirus tests are ‘unreliable’. According to AdventHealth, it was concerned with one of of its third-party labs, MicroGen DX, which had been processing the tests. The group says scores of patients likely received false positive or negative results. Meanwhile, thousands went at least … Read more

Experimental Moderna vaccine may ‘neutralise’ coronavirus

Moderna’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced antibodies that could ‘neutralize’ the new coronavirus in patients in a small early stage clinical trial, the company announced Monday, sending its shares up 25 percent.  The levels of the antibodies were similar to those in blood samples of people who have recovered from COVID-19, early results from the study … Read more

Scientists developing a face mask that could trap and kill coronavirus ‘on impact’

Scientists at the University of Kentucky are working on a new medical face mask that could capture and kill the novel coronavirus on impact. The virus is covered in ‘s-protein’ spikes, which allow the pathogen to enter and infect the body’s cells.   The new mask would have enzymes in its membrane, or layer, that would … Read more