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The growing reliance on tests and scans worries me. As we know all too well, these don’t find everything and my fear is that younger generations of healthcare professionals are being taught to rely on technology alone, when the technology will only ever be as good as the person using it. … [Read more...] about ‘Why do I keep getting these painful mouth ulcers?’: DR MARTIN SCURR answers your health questions

Severe turbulence at a typical cruising altitude of 39,000 feet will become up to two or three times as common throughout the year over the North Atlantic (+180 per cent), Europe (+160 per cent), North America (+110 per cent), the North Pacific (+90 per cent), and Asia (+60 per cent). … [Read more...] about Surfing the breeze: Transatlantic aircraft could use 16 PER CENT less fuel by hitching a better ride on the jet stream, study claims

But the biggest tragedy has undoubtedly been the crisis in care homes. Nearly a third of all Covid deaths have been among residents. From the start of the pandemic – when hospitals emptied their wards of countless untested patients into nursing homes – social care has been badly handled. Agency workers travelled from home to home, accelerating the spread of the virus, testing was rolled out too slowly and when the vaccine finally arrived its deployment has also been too slow. … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson begins work on roadmap OUT of lockdown: PM hopes to present plan within weeks as cases ease and deaths show first signs of flattening

'This rose to 108,000 by January 15, and the total now will be nearly 120,000. Around 90 per cent of these had Covid as the immediate cause of death, and so perhaps we can say that around 100,000 people in the UK have now died because of Covid. An awful total.'    … [Read more...] about Weekly Covid deaths in care homes nearly TRIPLED in a fortnight with 1,705 residents dying in England and Wales last week as pandemic total surges past 30,000

'But I have got to tell you at the moment the UK already has one of the tightest regimes in the world so don't forget everybody when you come into the UK… you have to have a test 72 hours before you fly, you have to have a passenger locator form, the airline will kick you off if you don't produce either of those… and then of course you have got to quarantine for 10 days or five days if you get another negative test. … [Read more...] about Change your own bed sheets and meals dropped by your door: Best Western chief reveals grim Covid protocols faced by travellers forced to quarantine in airport hotels for up to £1,500