Health

Vital coronavirus research, including a project tracking variants in India, has had its funding reduced by up to 70% under swingeing cuts to the UK overseas aid budget. One of Britain’s…

Out-door funeral pyres looking like horror scenes from medieval plagues are once again a daily feature of life for people in India, as the SARS-Cov2 plague sweeps through the country.…

Voluntary assisted dying is expected to be law in Tasmania by the middle of next year. A heavily amended End of Life Choices Bill was carried by 16 votes to…

OUT of about 10 possible vaccines four seem to be out in front, each with their own foibles and prices per dose. When you consider the billions of people who…

We were first made aware of this irksome little bug, whizzing around Wuhan, China, 5,500 miles away, in late January, writes Erin Wilson. No big deal, many claimed — including…

Boris Johnson and his health secretary, Matt Hancock, acted “unlawfully” when appointing three key figures – including the head of NHS Test and Trace, Dido Harding – to posts in…

Today (Saturday) the Daily Mirror reported that the total number of UK Covid-19 deaths past 70,000 – nearly 16,000 more than the official death toll. The newspaper says this is…

The virus marches on relentlessly as this incompetent Tory government dithers and U turns while it tells one lie after another in an attempt to blame anyone and anything but…

“The newly identified gene – called ORF3d – is an example of what’s called an overlapping gene:”

“I am not entirely convinced he is being truthful here.”