British Medical Journal

17:03, 22 NOV 2020

Dr Miriam Stoppard: We feel fear and stress about getting back to work after lockdown

Going back to work isn’t as -straightforward as it used to be. There’s a new risk to be taken account of – the risk of exposure to Covid-19 – when someone’s considering whether and how to return to work

Dr Miriam Stoppard: Mass antibody tests will give us invaluable Covid information

Dr Miriam Stoppard says mass antibody testing would provide invaluable -information on where the virus is, where it’s moving to, and where it’s likely to cause havoc

Eating baked beans can reduce your risk of early death by up to 12%, study finds

British Medical Journal

Diets rich in protein are linked to a lower risk of death from any cause, with a particularly strong effect for plant proteins including beans, lentils and nuts

Putin 'to quit as Russian president' in just weeks amid Parkinson's disease fears

Russian President Vladimir Putin will step down in January as speculation he is suffering with Parkinson's disease grows after concerning video footage emerged, according to reports

Coronavirus: 75% of supermarket workers with Covid-19 have no symptoms, study warns

A new study has warned that supermarket workers are up to five times more likely to test positive for Covid-19 with 75% showing no symptoms

Dr Miriam Stoppard: Why it’s getting harder to tell the two types of diabetes apart

Miriam Stoppard

Dr Miriam Stoppard says the lines are becoming blurred around type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and it's crucial to identify patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes because they’re in dire need of insulin

Coronavirus vaccine will not stop people from getting ill and dying, scientists warn

Scientists say trials being carried out by the world's leading pharmaceutical companies are not powerful enough to guarantee the jab will save lives

Dr. Miriam Stoppard: 'Hard to breathe easy when you know it spreads coronavirus'

British Medical Journal

The Daily Mirror's resident GP explains how heavy breathing, coughing, talking and singing can fill the atmosphere with virus spores that could infect anyone close by

If you eat well, you’re much more likely to feel happy and well too

Miriam Stoppard

Improving what and how we eat helps not only protect our physical health but our mental health too, with a Mediterranean diet, rich in fruit, veg and legumes and occasional red meat, linked to a lower risk of depression

New strain of scarlet fever is infecting children around the world, scientists warn

The resurgence of scarlet fever - a disease that has caused high death rates for centuries - has been likened to the Covid-19 pandemic

'If you’re lonely you will find it difficult to stop smoking'

Moreover, data from hundreds of thousands of people shows that loneliness appears to increase the need to smoke

Dr Miriam Stoppard: Prevention is better than cure when it comes to insect bites

Miriam Stoppard

These are -particularly common in certain parts of the UK with GPs seeing about 16 patients per week on average – some bites are just irritating, some are so bad they can interfere with sleep

Indigestion pills 'increase risk of type 2 diabetes,' according to scientists

The research in the British Medical Journal used information on more than 200,000 people from three studies, starting in the 70s and 80s and followed them for years

Boris Johnson squirms away from 10 million tests a day figure in 'moonshot' plan

The Prime Minister says he did not 'regognise' the figure of 10 million tests a day, which was reported from government documents after he boasted about the plan on live TV

NHS cleaners twice as likely to be infected with Covid-19 than frontline doctors

Intensive care staff were the least likely hospital workers to contract the virus, according to the shock findings of a study conducted in the West Midlands at the height of the pandemic

Hapless Brit in hospital after accidentally swallowing whole Covid-19 swab test stick

The shocked man took himself to Hull Royal Infirmary to get the test removed after inhaling the whole six inch plastic stick and attached cotton bud

Boris Johnson's plan for 'moonshot' coronavirus tests that don't exist could cost ￡100bn

The plan could provide enough tests for the entire population in a week, giving Brits rapid results with their morning coffee before they head off to work. But the technology isn't there yet - and the cost would be astonishing

Coronavirus: Scientists develop formula that predicts your risk of dying from Covid-19

The 'risk identification tool' predicts Covid-19 patients' chances of surviving, and will save lives by personalising therapy

Doctors drag massive 15lb hairball from teenage girl with 'Rapunzel syndrome'

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: The girl, 17, had been feasting on her own hair for a number of years and was taken to hospital in India after feeling unwell last week

Care home worker becomes 'first person in UK' to test positive for coronavirus twice

Mum-of-two Heidi Kray, 31, from Reading, is awaiting test results to confirm she has beaten Covid-19 twice - months after overcoming the killer bug for the first time

Pregnant women with coronavirus 'more likely to end up in intensive care'

Expectant mums with Covid-19 are also more likely to give birth early and their newborns are more likely to be admitted to a neonatal unit, new research has found

Coronavirus 'hasn't killed a single healthy child in the UK' new study claims

As schools get ready to return, experts say parents can be reassured by the research which shows the six children who have lost their lives with Covid-19 also had other serious illnesses or underlying health problems

Dr Miriam Stoppard: Obesity link has worsened chances of Covid-19 patients

We’re currently going through an obesity pandemic – in 2016 more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight or obese worldwide, affecting 65-70% of the adult populations in the UK and USA

Coronavirus survivors could lose hearing along with sense of smell and taste

Experts from the University of Manchester said some people reported poor hearing after beating the virus, with others saying long-term symptoms such has fatigue and dizziness had hampered their recovery

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