The British government appointed a vaccines minister on Saturday as it prepares to inoculate millions of people against the coronavirus, potentially starting within days. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Conservative lawmaker Nadhim Zahawi will oversee the country’s biggest vaccine program in decades. The U.K. medicines regulator is currently assessing two…
Girl with cancer goes to school from her hospital bed using a robot
A robot is helping a seven-year-old girl with cancer continue to attend school from her hospital bed. Seren Mawson has spent months in hospital receiving chemotherapy and other treatment after being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. She has been desperate to return to school and see her friends, but her…
Schoolgirls urge world to follow Scotland on free period products
A group of schoolgirls who started a campaign to educate fellow pupils about period poverty want more countries to follow Scotland’s example and make sanitary products free. The Scottish parliament this week unanimously passed a groundbreaking law to make tampons and sanitary napkins free in all public buildings—making Scotland the…
Asymptomatic Oklahoma health care workers with coronavirus infection can continue to work
Fox News Flash top headlines for November 25 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Health care workers in Oklahoma who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus but are asymptomatic — meaning they are not showing any symptoms — can continue working at hospitals…
2016 to 2019 Saw Increase in Prepregnancy Obesity in U.S.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 — From 2016 to 2019, there was an increase in prepregnancy obesity in the United States, according to a November data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. Anne K. Driscoll, Ph.D., and Elizabeth C.W. Gregory, M.P.H.,…
Rainbow Baby! Jinger Duggar Gives Birth to 2nd Child With Jeremy Vuolo
Felicity is a big sister! Counting On‘s Jinger Duggar and Jeremy Vuolo welcomed their second daughter, Evangeline Jo, on Sunday, November 22. Duggar Family: Meet the Next Generation “Evangeline means good news and Jo is after Jeremy’s middle name, Joseph,” Jinger, 26, wrote in a Wednesday, November 25, blog post of the…
Coronavirus shows how hard it is for ethnic minority and migrant women to access healthcare
We were told at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic that the virus did not discriminate. But the truth is that COVID-19 has brought to light the structural inequalities in healthcare that have existed for decades. In the UK, people from an ethnic minority background are more likely to die…
Scotland becomes first country to offer free period products
Scotland on Tuesday voted to offer free universal access to period products, becoming the first country in the world to do so. The Scottish Parliament voted unanimously in favour of the Period Products Bill, which makes it a legal right to have free access to sanitary products in public buildings….
Depression pill from the 1950s could be used to treat prostate cancer
A depression pill from 70 years ago could be used to treat prostate cancer, research suggests An antidepressant from the Fifties could treat prostate cancer and reduce side-effects of other treatments. Results of a small trial suggest that the drug phenelzine, which treats depression (by altering levels of brain chemicals…
‘Stop Working Out!’ See Chris Pratt’s Hilarious Plea to Chris Hemsworth
Chris Pratt is not just like Us and wants to see less of his Thor: Love and Thunder costar Chris Hemsworth’s massive biceps. (Yes, less.) Shirtless Celebrity Hunks The Australia native, 37, took to Instagram on Friday, November 20, to share a photo of himself flipping a massive tire in…
Agency staff made to work on Covid wards are struggling with their mental health
Healthcare workers put their lives at risk out on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis – but some are left out of the conversation. The rapid spread of Covid-19 launched the world into a long-running public health crisis. The UK’s NHS staff have rightly been praised as heroes for their…