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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand has abandoned its plan for a 16-week gap between doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and will opt for a shorter interval of 10 to 12 weeks instead, a senior health official said on Friday. The government, which plans to use the AstraZeneca vaccine for most of its inoculations, had sought to reach more people faster […]
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A share of £36 million to test ‘state-of-the-art’ AI technology has been invested in projects that aim to help the NHS transform the quality of care and the speed of diagnoses for conditions such as lung cancer. At the CogX Festival last week, UK Health and Social Care secretary Matt Hancock announced the winners of the second wave of the […]
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In a retrospective study believed to be one of the largest of its kind, researchers say they have successfully charted the health risks, growth patterns, and medical and surgical outcomes of 1,374 people with the most common form of dwarfism, called achondroplasia, seen over a 60-year period at four academic medical centers, including Johns Hopkins Medicine. The findings, according to […]
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Sport, physical activity and health organizations should keep using social media to deliver exercise and cooking classes and information on staying healthy even after pandemic restrictions have eased, according to new guidelines published by experts at the University of Birmingham. The guidelines are based on evidence gathered by researchers in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, that shows […]
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People of South Asian origin are the most likely of all Britain’s minority ethnic communities to agree to COVID-19 vaccination—the safest way to reach population immunity, a new study reveals. In the first survey focussing on the UK’s Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) population and other high-risk groups identified for priority vaccination, researchers discovered that from 4,884 respondents, 79.3 percent […]
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Dr Hilary Jones discusses bowel cancer awareness acronym When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Bowel cancer is the fourth […]
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The 5-year-old had nodded off while waiting for her 10-year-old brother to be treated for scabies at the clinic in the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, which she currently calls home. Nurse Chai-Chih Huang asked if she wanted to be taken back to her dormitory to sleep. “She looked so sad and didn’t say anything,” Huang recalled. The girl’s […]
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Deteriorating living and working conditions for workers in garment supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the risk of forced labour, according to a new report from the University of Sheffield. ‘The Unequal Impacts of COVID-19 on Global Garment Supply Chains’ has found that workers in Ethiopia, Honduras, India, and Myanmar who produce many of the clothes we buy […]
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People who struggle with social anxiety might experience increased distress related to mask-wearing during and even after the COVID-19 pandemic. A paper authored by researchers from the University of Waterloo's Department of Psychology and Centre for Mental Health Research and Treatment also has implications for those who haven't necessarily suffered from social anxiety in the past. "The adverse effects of […]
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