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Leigh King, a 41-year-old hairdresser from North Lanarkshire, said it was the 'worst time of my life'. Britain's drug regulator lists skin rashes as a possible side-effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3weTutC

Northern Ireland's NHS is now inviting everyone over 45 to book their appointment at a vaccination centre or one of 350 pharmacies deploying the jabs. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3udkR5h

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UK scientists said the decision to withhold the British-made jab on the continent due to an extremely rare risk of blood clots would deprive vulnerable people of life-saving protection. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31yYTxw

In the past week there has been an average of just 32 daily deaths in the over-70s. At the peak of the crisis in mid-January, deaths among this age group had topped 1,000 a day in England. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3doqZRs

Britain's Covid deaths continued to fall today amid a successful vaccine roll-out and tumbling infections. It comes after statisticians today revealed the UK has suffered 150,000 Covid deaths. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31uDHJ5

Musician Reese, 29, from from Whalley Range, Manchester was diagnosed with ME by his GP after he never recovered from a Covid infection. Now scientists believe he has long Covid. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3fsSdt8

Public Health England's analysis of more than 5,500 Covid patients in the second wave found there was 'no difference' in mortality. It comes months after Number 10 claimed B117 was deadlier. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3fqA6nq

The study led by the Federal University of Paraná found the death rate doubled in middle-aged people, too, but said it wasn't clear whether the variant was to blame or overloaded hospitals. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3u7PdpQ

Kwasi Kwarteng blamed 'misinformation' and 'people sharing things on social media' for lower jab uptake rates among black Britons. It comes after an ONS report said four in ten black over-70s got jabs. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3wkb9jN

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Samantha Matthews, 48, a head of university admissions from Surrey, was one of the first to undergo the technique, as she tells Adrian Monti. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/39qaAe5

These 'gold dust' particles filter out certain wavelengths of light, so the brain can distinguish between different colours, particularly reds and greens, more easily. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31wPerm

UN Health Agency Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (inset) said stockpiling was 'a moral outrage'. At least 36 states are yet to receive any vaccines through the Covax initiative. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3wc4Uhy

The British Dental Association has lashed out at the plans and called them 'perverse', warning forcing clinics to make more appointments will wreck social distancing guidelines. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3wjZD7Y

Addressing the country from Downing St's new £2.6million White House-style press briefing room, England's chief medical officer said the wall will get stronger when top-up doses are dished out. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3cxKI1V

An investigation by the BBC's Panorama found a number of safety breaches and failings at the scandal-hit Lighthouse Lab in Milton Keynes during the second wave. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sCGtrq

The UK's JCVI said that adults who live with someone with a weak immune system because of a medical condition should get the jab because vaccines don't work as well in those patients. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sx5a8U

Researchers tested the ability of 5,000 volunteers to diagnose an illness, based on a given list of symptoms, before and after consulting the web. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3rwV72h

Researchers surveyed the habits of 78 contact lens wearers to determine the risk factors for developing contact lens-related microbial keratitis. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3swWXRW

A study of 250 people with periodontitis - severe gum disease - found people with the condition are 2.3 times more likely to have high blood pressure. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2PFeB7G

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It sounds too good to be true: an indulgent Easter egg that is also, somehow, healthy. But this year, supermarket shelves are heaving with chocolate treats that seem to make just that claim. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2PA9wxg

DR ELLIE CANNON: Feeling as though there's phlegm always in the throat is incredibly common. And more often than not, the underlying cause lies with the nose or stomach. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3deNZSW

Researchers from the University of Kent and Leeds Beckett University said there was a link between feeling shameful and ignoring social distancing guidelines. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31rDTZE

Michelle Burgess' monthly hormonal migraines were lingering far longer than normal and she no longer had enthusiasm for anything - until she was prescribed HRT and testosterone. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3u0g2wg

Last year, scores of businesses required anyone who entered to have their temperature taken, but scientists have now cast doubt over the scanners. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3crIOjm

A landmark study has found that giving patients two commonly used drugs, pentoxifylline and tocopherol, not only halts bone deterioration but for more than half of patients reverses it. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3w7dTkk

New York-based drugs firm Intrommune Therapeutics has enrolled 32 peanut-allergic adults in a trial that will see them use a toothpaste containing trace amounts of peanuts. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3fiW2kr

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Interestingly, the countries that have, over the years, consistently scored highest on the happiness index are also those that have handled the Covid-19 crisis particularly well. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3d5ZSdU

After weeks of encouraging declines, coronavirus cases in the U.S. are on the rise again, with the average number of daily infections rising to nearly 57,000 on Wednesday. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3rnSbon

Research by No10's scientists found 1,800 out of 43,000 UK patients admitted with the virus since December 8 had received at least one dose of either Pfizer or AstraZeneca's jabs. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dc4j6P

Analysis by SAGE found the strain can cause up to a 10-fold decrease in the production of antibodies in vaccinated or previously infected people. The strain has been spotted 412 times in the UK. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3d8DvVl

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A study done in Sheffield, Oxford, Birmingham, Newcastle and Liverpool found that immunity was stronger if people had a vaccine after natural infection, compared to even two doses of a jab. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3d79xAU

The Office for National Statistics said just 86 per cent of infected patients in England stayed at home and did not see other people during their 10-day quarantine. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3cmlELl

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Professor Tim Spector said the rise was 'currently well under control' and was occurring in schoolchildren. Boris Johnson has asked all pupils to test themselves for the virus twice a week. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3cm2kOa

UK start-up iAbra said the Virolens test was given approval by the country's medical regulator following successful trials at Heathrow Airport. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3lV534c

The former Supreme Court judge warned it was 'politically unrealistic' for UK ministers to 'backtrack' on social controls anytime soon. He suggested Brits had become so used to the curbs. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3conWtl

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NHS England figures show University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which runs two hospitals, has recorded 2,578 fatalities since March. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31kNG3w

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EXCLUSIVE: NHS England figures show just 60 per cent of adults aged between 50 and 55 had at least one dose of the Covid vaccine by March 21 - the most recent day local data is available for. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3d8Ghtx

Oxford University is looking for 30 adults to get the vaccine squirted up their noses as soon as next week. Volunteers will be tracked for four months to see make sure it's safe and works. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2QDNoTk

Department of Health statistics showed today's death toll was down 33 per cent on the 95 recorded at the same time last week. But cases rose by 1.5 per cent after 6,397 were announced. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3fdoXWY

Some 56 of 149 council areas saw an uptick in cases over the week to March 21, according to Public Health England. But this was driven by cases detected among school children. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3cjFNS3

Scientists told MailOnline that while there was 'no doubt UK infections will rise' when pubs reopen and people start mixing again, the vaccines have 'solved the problem of serious disease'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3cmlJ1G

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Vaccine centres in Devon, Cornwall and Kent are among those to confirm they will 'have to pause' during the month-long slowdown, caused by a shortfall of five million Oxford jabs from India. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3chfA6O

Sir Jeremy Farrar warned the biggest threat to the UK's lockdown exit now came from abroad, and the risk of importing dangerous new variants that could make vaccines less effective. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3clIum9

NHS Test and Trace data shows Covid cases continued to tumble in England by six per cent despite a surge of 400,000 tests from March 10 to 17 - when the latest figures go up to. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3cleM0P

EXCLUSIVE: Cases have continued to fall in all adult age groups since schools reopened in England on March 8, with the return to classrooms yet to trigger an increase in the infection rate. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3soHgMB

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospitals says it could have 100 Covid patients on the wards in a 'reasonably optimistic' scenario. But warns this could hit 200 - or a quarter of all beds available. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3smCCyK

NHS medics will test the two drugs on 2,600 'long Covid' patients over the next three years. Around one in ten Covid patients discharged die, and three in ten are readmitted following complications. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3f7MJDQ

Researchers who analysed 64 studies from around the world found the lateral flow devices failed to detect 42 per cent of people who didn't show signs of illness. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3d2jShp

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