A new global clinical trial is launching to test if a common anti-inflammatory drug colchicine can prevent serious complications caused by the novel coronavirus. The study, which will recruit 6,000 participants from the US, Canada and Europe, will examine colchicine. Colchicine is most often used to treat gout, a complex form of arthritis that causes … Read more
Stassi Schroeder tells fans to ‘send help’ as she bravely reveals psoriasis breakout on her face By Kelby Vera For Dailymail.com Published: 22:22 BST, 20 April 2020 | Updated: 23:35 BST, 20 April 2020 Stassi Schroder is having some bad luck during quarantine. The Vanderpump Rules star took to Instagram to reveal how recently she’s … Read more
NASA and SpaceX target May 27 to send astronauts to the ISS aboard an American rocket the first time in nearly a decade NASA and SpaceX will launch two astronauts aboard an American rocket May 27 This will be the first mission to leave from US to the ISS since 2011 The crew will board … Read more
Facebook to send myth-busting messages to users who have liked, reacted or commented on misinformation about the coronavirus on the social network Facebook users interacting with fake news will see a message in their news feed This encourages them to visit the World Health Organisation for health updates Facebook also introduced a ‘Get the Facts’ section … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK WHEN TIME STOPPED: A MEMOIR OF MY FATHER’S WAR by Ariana Neumann (Scribner £16.99, 368pp) In the opening pages of this beautifully written, heart-wrenching memoir of love and family and war is a detailed family tree of the author’s Czech heritage. It seems dauntingly complex as family trees often do, littered … Read more
China has taken advantage of the USS Theodore Roosevelt being crippled by the coronavirus by sending an aircraft carrier and fighter jets close to the disputed territory of Taiwan. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said the Liaoning, China’s first operational aircraft carrier, and five accompanying warships passed first through the Miyako Strait, located between Japan‘s islands of Miyako … Read more
Italy will open a small number of shops tomorrow in the first loosening of Europe’s longest coronavirus lockdown, while construction work could be set to resume in some places. Bookshops, stationery shops and stores selling children’s clothes will be allowed to open their doors on Tuesday, the government says. The wider containment measures which began … Read more