When disease epidemics and outbreaks occur, conspiracy theories often emerge that compete with the information provided by public health officials. A Dartmouth-led study in Science Advances finds that information used to counter myths about Zika in Brazil not only failed to reduce misperceptions but also reduced the accuracy of people’s other beliefs about the disease. […]
UK Border Force hunts 2,000 people who flew in from Wuhan in last two weeks and up to 20 new patients are tested as France declares three cases after killer virus reached Europe Border Force agents have been deployed to crank up search for those who came from eastern Hubei province While 14 people have […]
An estimated 28,000 to 36,000 deaths a year in the UK are attributed to long-term exposure to air pollution. Exposure to air pollution can cause a range of serious health complications, including lung cancer, heart disease and stroke. Pollution can come from a variety of sources, including wood burning fires and fossil fuels. But research […]
Two-thirds of women in the UK experience bladder leaks, but not enough women are doing the simple exercises that could help to prevent them. New research, conducted by Always Discreet, has found that although 85% of women know that exercising their pelvic floor muscles can help prevent or improve leaks, just over a third (34%) […]
Britons on Sunday evacuation flight from coronavirus-hit Wuhan will be held in isolation at a Milton Keynes conference centre for 14 days – as government ‘plans China travel ban in a week’ Around 150 Britons being flown back from the coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan on Sunday will be quarantined South Central Ambulance Service said that […]
Smoking trendy hookah waterpipes ‘could spread TUBERCULOSIS’ as 20-year-old regular user is struck down with the killer infection Unidentified patient, from Sweden, rushed to hospital after coughing up blood Was a regular hookah smoker and used fruit-flavoured devices five times a week Medics believed he contracted vicious infection from sharing mouthpiece A 20-year-old contracted tuberculosis […]
