Health & Wellbeing Education project launched to understand Birmingham learning at home during COVID-19
Thursday, 28 May 2020 03:19The University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council are working together to study the implications of the shutdown on schools, teachers, pupils and parents due to COVID-19 pandemic. The...
Health & Wellbeing What coronavirus tests are being done in the UK?
Monday, 25 May 2020 03:15Everyone aged five and over in the UK with coronavirus symptoms can now be tested for the disease, Heath Secretary Matt Hancock has announced. So what exactly is the government's testing...
Health & Wellbeing NHS fees to be scraped for overseas health staff
Saturday, 23 May 2020 04:26NHS staff and care workers who come from overseas countries are to be exempted from having to pay a surcharge to use the health service after mounting pressure from MPs. A spokesperson for Boris...
Health & Wellbeing New trial set to see if dogs can ‘sniff out’ coronavirus
Monday, 18 May 2020 02:40A UK trial to see whether specialist medical sniffer dogs can detect coronavirus in human being is set to begin. The dogs are already trained to detect odours of certain cancers, malaria and...
Health & Wellbeing Black Britons face ‘twice the risk’ of virus deaths
Sunday, 10 May 2020 03:47Black men and women in Great Britain are said to be nearly twice as likely to die from coronavirus as the indigenous white population according to the Office of National Statistics. The analysis by...
Health & Wellbeing New support group created for bereaved people during virus pandemic
Thursday, 07 May 2020 03:54Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, tragic losses are being faced, often under difficult circumstances. And, for many, living in lockdown is proving to be very tough. But for those who have lost a loved...
Health & Wellbeing Solihull Hospital to be ‘coronavirus-free’ to do other operations
Wednesday, 06 May 2020 02:13Solihull Hospital, in the West Midlands, is closing its minor injuries unit with anyone who has the Covid-18 virus will be treated elsewhere. That means that all non-surgical work will be moved to...
Health & Wellbeing Tanzania importing herbs that ‘cure’ coronavirus
Wednesday, 06 May 2020 02:08The president of Tanzania has said that he will be sending a plane to Madagascar to import a herbal tonic which has been touted as a cure for coronavirus by the country’s...
Health & Wellbeing Solihull Hospital to be ‘coronavirus-free’ to do other operations
Wednesday, 06 May 2020 02:05Solihull Hospital, in the West Midlands, is closing its minor injuries unit with anyone who has the Covid-18 virus will be treated elsewhere. That means that all non-surgical work will be moved to...
Health & Wellbeing Underused Birmingham Nightingale Hospital ‘at tribute to NHS’
Tuesday, 05 May 2020 03:38With the Birmingham Nightingale Hospital lying underused and still to take in any coronavirus patients, the NHS is hoping that it stays that way – as it would be a tribute to the work that they are...
Health & Wellbeing Transplant survivor, Michelle, giving back to the Hospital which saved her life
Tuesday, 05 May 2020 03:36By way of saying ‘Thank You’ for saving her life, Birmingham woman, Michelle Hemmings is looking to raise funds by organising a fundraising appeal on behalf of Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust...
Health & Wellbeing Daily 100,000 tests target ‘likely’ to be hit
Monday, 04 May 2020 01:27The UK government is likely to meet or “come close” to its target of 100,000 daily coronavirus tests, Community Secretary, Robert Jericks has said. Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said that the...
Health & Wellbeing NHS doctor says she is overwhelmed by response to pleas for visors
Monday, 04 May 2020 01:25A doctor who was one of the ones who was making a desperate urge for volunteers to make much-needed visors for NHS staff – due to the shortage at her hospital – has said that she was “overwhelmed”...
Health & Wellbeing Ghana preparing for online funerals and coming election during pandemic
Monday, 04 May 2020 01:23Since the Covid-19 outbreak, people in Ghana have come to accept that their lives have been turned upside down. They have learned to cope with things that nobody has ever dreamt about – like...
Health & Wellbeing Mondelez International use 3D chocolate-making technology to make medical visors for NHS and frontline staff
Monday, 04 May 2020 01:13Mondelez International, makers of the UK’s favourite snacks including Cadbury and Oreo, has joined forces with engineering company, 3P Innovation , to help produce thousands o medical visors every...
Health & Wellbeing Data reveals breakdown of BAME Covid-19 patients
Monday, 04 May 2020 01:11Newly released data from the NHS has revealed the ethnic breakdown of the patents at hospitals in London who have died from coronavirus. Black people living in the city account for 15% of its...
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