Israel is reporting its first case of what’s called “flurona”, when a person can have two infections influenza and coronavirus at the same time. It was detected in a pregnant woman who had mild symptoms. This discovery comes as a new varian…
Flurona: what we know so far about the rare new double infection
Image Credit(AP)It sounds more like science fiction the more you hear it: The first case of Flurona, a new and rare double infection of coronavirus and influenza, was discovered in an unvaccinated pregnant Israeli young woman, accordi…
Ministers must act now on NHS staffing crisis, health chiefs warn
Exclusive: NHS Confederation proposes range of measures to help hospitals in England cope with severe staff shortagesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMillions of patients will suffer worsening quality of care unless ministers…
UK Covid live: pre-departure tests for travellers to England to be scrapped; 194,747 new cases reported
From 4am on Friday pre-departure tests no longer required for people arriving in England as UK records second highest number of daily casesAlmost 200,000 new Covid cases reported in UKFollow-up PCRs after positive LFT to be suspended in EnglandTravel s…
Withings、心電図や神経活動まで測定するスマート体組成計「Bodu Scan」発表 – Engadget 日本版
WiFi体組成計やECG機能付きのスマートウォッチなどを開発販売している仏Withingsが、最新のスマート体組成計「Body Scan」を発表しました。 この体組成計は以前のWithings製品と見た目は似ているものの、強化ガラス板には4か所の体重センサー、14個の酸化インジウム電極を備え、また手で持つハンドルバーに4つのステンレ…
Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province
Medical imaging service in a hospital in Savoie, France. A technician monitors a brain MRI scan session. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesA whistleblower spoke to The Guardian about a mysterious neurological disease in New Brunswick, Ca…
ヒトの細胞を“プログラミング”する：難病の新たな治療法につながる技術、英国のスタートアップが開発中
ヒトの細胞を自在にプログラミングすることで、オーダーメイドで細胞を作成する新たな技術の開発に英国のスタートアップが取り組んでいる。将来的にはアルツハイマー病のような疾患の細胞治療など、まったく新しい治療法や薬の開発につながる可能性を秘めている
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Family of autistic man plan legal challenge over care conditions
Mother says her 24-year-old son’s care at a hospital in Cheshire is ‘worse than being in prison’The family of an autistic man confined to an apartment and fed through a hatch are planning a legal challenge against his conditions, in a case that will in…
Super poo: the emerging science of stool transplants and designer gut bacteria
As more people turn to faecal transplants for their health benefits, researchers in Adelaide are harnessing the power of high-quality poo in new treatments that can simply be swallowedGood poo donors are so hard to find they’re sometimes called “unicor…
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still canWhen he was nine years old, my godson Adam developed a brief but freakishly intense obsession with Elvis Presley…