Safety on the beach, two metre rules and why gyms can’t reopen: DR ELLIE CANNON answers your questions on coronavirus Last week we had to stay two metres apart. Now it’s one metre. Are they making it up as they go along? The two-metre distancing rule was always an educated…
Researchers develop a wearable patch for melanoma
The painless patch dissolves after delivering timed-release treatment. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), roughly 100,350 new cases of melanoma will have been diagnosed in the U.S. by the end of 2020. Melanoma accounts for more fatalities than any other type of skin cancer, and the ACS anticipate 6,850…
Coronavirus dreams: Why do we have nightmares? How to stop them
Now more than ever, Brits need to be getting a full night’s rest. When you’re sleep-deprived, your immune system takes a beating and you are more likely to become ill. Not only this, when you’re tired you become more stressed, emotional, and are more likely to make poorer life and…
More than One-Third of Americans Have Dangerous Metabolic Syndrome
Researchers say the percentage of people in the United States with metabolic syndrome has risen to 37 percent. Metabolic syndrome is caused when at least three of five conditions, including high blood pressure and elevated blood sugar, are present in a person’s body. The syndrome can lead to cardiovascular and…
COVID-19: Could gut bacteria be involved?
The authors of a recent paper ask what role gut bacteria might play in COVID-19. They outline strands of existing evidence and conclude that a link between the two is plausible, but that more research is necessary. Scientists have implicated gut bacteria in a number of conditions. From type 2…
4 Signs & Symptoms of Stressed Out Skin
Even the most zen among us still gets the occasional pimple or dry patches from stress. Maybe it’s because of a too-long to-do list, never-ending bills, familial pressures, or just general existential dread amidst being in a global pandemic. But *shouting into the sky* why do stress and skin have…
Concern over COVID-19 track, test and trace
Writing an analysis piece in the BMJ, Peter Roderick from Newcastle University and colleagues question why the government has eroded England’s established system of local infectious disease control and created a parallel system which relies on private companies for testing and contact tracing. They warn that the Government’s “abysmal response”…
Infected Turkey-travelers threatened with chloroquine-compulsory treatment
The Covid-19-pandemic keeps the world in breath. More than 9.6 million people have been infected so far worldwide, with the novel Coronavirus, 192.150 of them in Germany – where it always comes back to local outbreaks. Infected Turkey-travelers threatened with chloroquine-compulsory treatment Turkey-travelers, in which there is a suspicion that…
Coronavirus symptoms update: What’s your blood type? You may be at higher risk
When it comes to COVID-19, blood type was not previously a measure associated with symptoms or mortality, however, as the world continues its search to understand how the virus evolves and destroys, scientists have discovered a strong link and if you have this type of blood you may be more at risk….
Studying the crown of the virus behind COVID-19 to find its weak point
New research suggests targeting the spike proteins could provide an effective treatment for SARS-CoV-2(COVID-19) and provide valuable structural data for teams working to develop vaccines against it. As part of the massive global scientific effort underway to find treatments or vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, the UK’s synchrotron, Diamond Light Source is…