Michael Gove, Minister for the Cabinet Office, was joined by Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government Patrick Vallance and NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens for the daily coronavirus briefing today (March 27). Prime Minister Boris Johnson is currently self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus. Why are UK coronavirus cases increasing? It was announced today […]
Type 2 diabetes is your body’s way of telling you that your pancreas isn’t functioning properly because your blood sugar levels are consistently too high. Blood sugar, the main sugar found in blood, is absorbed in the blood through the food we eat. The pancreas releases a hormone in response to this blood sugar, which […]
The UK is currently adhering to a number of social distancing measures due to coronavirus, with people being told to stay at home with the exception of some circumstances. And with many people at home, some have suggested another baby boom could be on the way. What is a baby boom? The term ‘baby boom’ […]
Vitamin D helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body, which are nutrients that play an essential role in keeping the bones, muscles and teeth healthy. Failing to get enough vitamin D can therefore cause the body to undergo a number of adverse changes. The most commonly cited change is bone deformities […]
Dementia is set to affect 152 million people by 2050, says the World Alzheimer’s Report. Don’t be part of that statistic. Try to reduce your risk of dementia by following 10 recommendations from Nutritional Therapist Natalie Lamb. Inside the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, researchers state approximately 20 percent of people without dementia show significant signs […]
Coronavirus is the global pandemic that has shown how fragile life can be. People have had to change their daily routines, the NHS is under huge amounts of pressure and you can’t blow off steam in a pub. How long will this all last? Prime Minister Boris Johnson believes the UK can “turn the tide” […]
Coronavirus testing is currently being prioritised for people in intensive care units and those with respiratory illness – particularly pneumonia. The UK government’s latest advice is people in the community with a fever or cough don’t usually need testing. The failure to test more widely means people may be self-isolating for no reason, which has […]
Coronavirus guidance is changing daily as scientists work to understand the new virus, which was first discovered in China in December 2019. There are new measures in place for isolation, Britons are required to practice social distancing as the Government revealed some groups are at a higher risk than others. One confusion arose over the […]
Coronavirus has infected nearly 200,000 people around the world and the number is increasing daily. Countries are imposing strict measures to prevent further spread and resulting deaths, with the UK asking residents to “distance” themselves from one another. Coronavirus – COVID-19 – is a virus which scientists are still learning about, having first surfaced in […]
Coronavirus has spread rapidly around the globe. Since COVID-19 was discovered in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the virus has spread across the world. There have been more than 180,000 cases of the latest strain of the virus and cases in the UK are continuing to rise every day. What are the symptoms of coronavirus? […]
