The UK has reached the peak. Here’s what the country needs to do now.
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Society shapes people’s preferences and emphasises the value of having genetically related children.
The pandemic illustrates that attacks against healthcare can – and do – happen everywhere.
If the UK relaxes social distancing now, while most of the population is still susceptible, it runs the very real risk of a second wave.
People with heart conditions at higher risk of severe COVID-19. But coronavirus appears to affect the heart directly, too.
Cytokines ensure our immune system responds effectively to pathogens in our bodies. But in some cases, cytokines can cause the immune system to over-react.
A spike in flour sales and an increase in home cooked meals could signal the start of a new healthier relationship with food.
Mental health experts have called for universal basic income as far back as 1969.
Drug repurposing represents our only hope for the treatment of COVID-19 in the short term. But quick and rigorous trials need to be run to provide evidence these drugs work.
Three graphs of mortality data tell the story of the direction the UK and the world are heading in after the peak of the coronavirus outbreak.
Early evidence from Japan suggests protective measures against COVID-19 may also be protecting us against influenza.
One way the novel coronavirus might enter the brain is through the olfactory nerves in the nose.
Cause for a degree of relief.
The Trump administration has halted funding to the World Health Organization in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. But what does it actually do with its budget?
Some people turn to a tub of ice cream. Others, to clean eating.
Running as nature intended might help prevent shin, foot, knee and ankle injuries.
A vaccine is at least a year away, but we need to start thinking about how we will roll it out now.
Our review found women with already high-risk pregnancies may have become more sick with COVID-19.
Being a member of a certain age group shouldn’t be a liability.
Prisons in the 18th and 19th centuries were hit hard by pandemics – with some drastic measures to stem the spread.
Half of all patients who died of COVID-19 in Wuhan had a secondary infection.
Not just individuals, but the government’s too.
2020 will be a seminal turning point in British health policy.
There is no evidence that garlic, lemons, and the ketogenic diet can prevent or cure coronavirus.
Vaccines for other diseases are being examined for their protective effects against coronavirus.