Adults with learning disabilities will all be offered Covid vaccines as part of the top six priority groups, Britain’s health chiefs said today. The JCVI, which decides on who gets the life-saving jabs first, said people with learning disabilities of any kind should be bumped up the pecking order. They will be added into priority … Read more
Home-schooling time warp! Parents are much more likely to say that time has gone ‘very fast’ than adults without children, research finds Research finds parents much more likely to say that time has gone ‘very fast’ Age-old adage that ‘children grow up so fast’ may be based in scientific truth Time passing ‘fast’ could be due … Read more
England’s salt reduction programme between 2003 and 2018 successfully slashed salt consumption of the average English adult by 15 per cent, a new study has found. Data shows 8.38 grams of salt are now consumed every day, down from 9.38 grams in 2000. If these salt intake levels are maintained, by 2050 the programme would … Read more
Matt Hancock today warned that the Government would take its time lifting the coronavirus lockdown, despite speeding up plans to rollout vaccines to all UK adults by the end of July. The Health Secretary said it was ‘right to be cautious’ ahead of Boris Johnson’s big reveal of his roadmap out of restrictions tomorrow. Mr … Read more
At first glance, Mike Fairclough’s domestic set-up looks much like the cheerful chaos that will be familiar to many families. His three-year-old twin daughters Luna and Star charge around, endlessly changing dressing-up costumes and asking a million questions a minute. His sons Iggy, 16, and Tali, 22, wander around blaring loud music. The difference is … Read more
They might not necessarily be staffing intensive care units, procuring PPE or delivering vaccines, but, in many ways, Britain’s young people are on the coronavirus frontline. Not because of the health risks, it’s a disease which poses the most risk to the elderly, but the financial ones. The economic fallout of the pandemic, Britain’s own … Read more
Almost all adults in Britain could receive their first vaccine dose by the end of May, a Downing Street official has suggested in a leaked letter to Boris Johnson. No10 adviser Samuel Kasumu appeared to inadvertently reveal a private target to jab nearly every over-18 by summer in his resignation statement today. The letter, which was later … Read more
Almost all adults in Britain could receive their first vaccine dose by the end of May, a Downing Street official has suggested in a leaked letter to Boris Johnson. No10 adviser Samuel Kasumu appeared to inadvertently reveal a private target to jab nearly every over-18 by summer in his resignation statement today. The letter, which was later … Read more
Young adults and middle-aged people were responsible for the vast majority of COVID-19‘s spread in the US last year, a new study suggests. People between ages 20 and 49 were drove just shy of 72 percent of transmissions between February and October, according to a new research by Imperial College London scientists. Those aged 20 … Read more
How young people have senior moments too: Adults in their 20s regularly forget why they entered a room or where they put their keys… and more than half often have difficulty finding the right word Research from Edinburgh University has found that young people regularly struggle to remember things A new study of 124 healthy … Read more