Slow rollout of vaccines ‘bodes ill for recovery’, warns the IMF

Uneven rollout of vaccines across the world could threaten global financial stability, warns IMF By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 27 January 2021 | Updated: 22:53 GMT, 27 January 2021 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that vaccine shortages could threaten global financial stability. While developed countries like the UK … Read more

Parents forced to take turns to see their severely ill baby due to hospital Covid rules

A couple are being forced to take it in turns to be with their severely ill baby daughter in hospital due to Covid rules which ban them from visiting together. Reagan Lewis and Mitch Smith have been told they cannot sit as a family with daughter Alessi due to the strict Covid restrictions at busy Bristol … Read more

US claims researchers at Chinese institute fell ill weeks before the world knew of Covid 

The Chinese government is under growing pressure to reveal the true origins of the coronavirus pandemic after US intelligence placed a Wuhan lab at the centre of the mystery.  American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with Covid-like symptoms in autumn 2019 – weeks before the … Read more

Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty, 61, is seriously ill with Covid and pneumonia in hospital

Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty, 61, is seriously ill with Covid and pneumonia in hospital – as son asks fans to ‘keep my father in prayer’ Paddy Doherty is in hospital with pneumonia and coronavirus, his family say Doctors have placed 61-year-old on oxygen to help him fight the infection  His son Simey … Read more

Siegfried Fischbacher ‘is terminally ill with pancreatic cancer’ months after Roy died from COVID-19

Siegfried Fischbacher, 81, ‘is terminally ill with pancreatic cancer’ and is at home following ‘a 12-hour operation’ to remove tumor… nine months after Roy died from COVID-19 By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 19:59 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 20:15 GMT, 11 January 2021 Siegfriend Fischbacher, 81, is ‘terminally ill with pancreatic cancer,’ according … Read more

Stem cells from babies’ umbilical cords could be used to treat severely ill Covid-19 patients

Stem cells found in the umbilical cords of newborn babies could provide a life saving treatment for people with a severe case of coronavirus, according to scientists. A study by the University of Miami found that using stem cells on patients under the age of 85 doubled their chances of surviving Covid-19 and worked in … Read more

Mother, 45, ill with coronavirus makes miraculous recovery with help from arthritis drug ‘anakinra’

A mother who was in a coma and given three days to live after contracting coronavirus has made a miraculous recovery with help from an experimental drug. The family of Claire Haythorne, 45, from Hillsborough, Sheffield, said they had been through the ‘hardest two months’ of their lives. She contracted the virus at the start … Read more

Judge rules heart attack victim who is critically ill in hospital should be allowed to die

A judge has ruled that a heart attack victim who is critically ill should be allowed to die following a legal battle between his wife and his mother.   The patient, a middle-aged man identified only as ‘RS’ due to an anonymity order, suffered a cardiac arrest in November last year, during which his heart stopped … Read more

Critically ill patients are transferred to hospitals hundreds of miles away

Critically ill patients are transferred to hospitals hundreds of miles away because local intensive care units are full – as Britain suffers its highest daily death toll since April Britain recorded 981 coronavirus deaths yesterday, highest daily toll since April Hospitals in London asked NHS colleagues in Yorkshire to take unwell patients Officials have asked … Read more

The intriguing reason you feel ill after a single glass 

I’ll admit it: I have a drinking problem. But mainly only with white wine, not red. And always with bubbles. No, it’s not an addiction – far from it. I’ll illustrate this with an instantly regrettable decision I made on Christmas morning: I had half a glass of champagne, and by lunchtime, the familiar burn … Read more