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Candace Owens says pushing vaccines on children appears 'evil and sinister' 'Candace' host reacts to Democrats incentivizing vaccines for children and Kanye West's comments about abortion on 'Fox News Primetime.' via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2YlvCsd

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied J&J a bid to block a Mississippi lawsuit alleging the company did not do enough to inform consumers about the risks in using its talc-based baby powder. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dPlqfC

The Omicron variant is currently causing about 13% of new COVID-19 cases in New York and New Jersey, according to new data from the CDC. Nationwide, the variant is causing 3% of new cases. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3s2JRi5

Major trials are now under way to test the part inflammation plays in heart disease, though this is not a risk that many people are aware of. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3IJl3S2

EXCLUSIVE: Department of Health data shows London is now seeing just as many cases as last January, when it was battered by the Alpha variant. Cases are rising in elderly people now too. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3m9DJ3T

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong combined lung tissue with the original Covid strain, Delta and Omicron to compare the infections they trigger. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3H43jiP

A University of Leicester-led team of experts examined over 2,000 adults who were admitted to hospital with severe Covid during the first year of the pandemic. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3F3OTi2

Professor Chris Whitty told a Downing Street press briefing this afternoon that lower hospitalisations seen in South Africa this wave would be expected, because its population have greater immunity. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/324sgLM

Health service statistics show there were 5,697 beds taken up by people who had tested positive for the virus on December 7, the latest date available. But 1,483 were being treated for something else. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3eaphUV

Dr Alina Chan, a specialist in cell engineering at Harvard and MIT, said said the idea that the virus may have been genetically engineered at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is 'reasonable'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/325PBfO

Dr Susan Hopkins (pictured), the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) chief medical adviser, refused to confirm being consulted on the scheme nine times in a grilling with MPs today. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/33whfUb

England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty warned the Cabinet during an update on Tuesday that the new Covid variant was spreading 'unbelievably fast'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31Z0kc2

Britons who caught Covid in the last six months should be 'relatively well protected' from Omicron the expert who runs the UK's largest Covid symptom-tracking study has said as cases rise. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/33xBdOl

A record 78,610 people tested positive in the past 24 hours, eclipsing the previous highest count by more than 10,000 - when 68,053 were recorded on January 8 at the peak of the second wave. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3oYVeWp

The UK's Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced it had struck a deal with the postal service to ramp up testing kit deliveries to 900,000 a day. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3yql5JT

Findings from Pfizer's trial of 2,200 adults showed those most at-risk from the virus who took Paxlovid within a few days of Covid symptoms were 89 per cent less likely to need hospital treatment or die. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dRINoH

South Africa's weekly Covid surveillance report this morning revealed that cases fell in the epicentre of Gauteng province last week, in an early sign that the variant has peaked within a month. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3m6E6MB

Experts have cast doubt over gloomy predictions that 200,000 Britons are catching Omicron everyday with Sajid Javid and health officials accused of blatant scare over the modelling. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3m4aQGc

Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford found there were no cases myocarditis per million second doses of either Pfizer or AstraZeneca's Covid vaccines. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3yEttFT

Officials who analysed 78,000 Omicron cases in South Africa estimated t he risk of hospitalisation was significantly lower than in all previous waves, which lends weight to theory Omicron is milder. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3IKiT4N

Dr Paul Burton, its chief medical officer, said he expected the two strains to co-exist for some time. This raised the risk of them infecting the same cell, and possibly swapping genes. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sbeYIp

In a letter to healthcare providers published late last night, NHS England said all patients in hospital beds should be discharged if it is safe to do so. Hotels and care homes will be used for care instead. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dPuktv

Professor Kevin Fenton, London's director of public health, said data suggested Omicron was already behind at least one in every two new infections in the city, up from 44% just yesterday. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dV8aG8

DR. ANGELIQUE COETZEE: With predictions of one million cases by the end of the month, I gather there is talk of Christmas being cancelled and a possible New Year lockdown. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/324Bo32

Tens of thousands of Britons trying to get their hands on home testing kits are being told 'no more' are available. Many pharmacies, town halls and sports clubs have also run out of the swabs. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3GGOkes

In the year up to March 2021, just seven in 10 eligible women in England were screened for abnormalities in their cervix that can lead to cancer, dropping two per cent on the previous year. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3GMOQaP

Experts told MailOnline more information is needed on the fatality, as otherwise the Government 'is placing further strain on people's trust in their judgements, which is already pretty thin'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3m22rmu

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: The winter months are when we put on the most weight (typically 1-2lb) as we huddle indoors eating comfort foods. We then spend the next few months trying to shed the extra fat. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3rSLEGb

A team led by King's College London reviewed 77 research papers from five countries, including the UK, looking at mental health care provided by phone and video calls in the pandemic. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3q1pnnl

Researchers at Clalit Health in Israel found that receiving a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot can reduce a fully vaccinated person's risk of death from the virus by 90 percent. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3IBHHM8

Dr Anthony Fauci says that the definition of 'fully vaccinated' may soon only include people who have received their booster shots, and that a fourth dose may soon be needed. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3DCRYnp

Around one in 50 people suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) during their lives, and there are more than a million people with the condition in the UK. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3EHMrgW

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine booster shots in the wake of new data showing the Omicron variant can bypass protection provided by the first two doses. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3pFUqVm

Every borough in the capital is seeing an uptick in Covid infections, and each has already detected at least one suspected case of Omicron. But hospitalisations and deaths remain static. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3lTp78D

People in their 40s have been left unable to secure a vital Covid booster vaccine dose via the NHS website for at least another two weeks. The rollout was extended to the age group yesterday. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3pF2AgA

Professor Christina Pagel, a mathematician at University College London, said infections in Guateng have dipped below the 25 per cent daily growth rate that had been seen since November 15. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/33fjkDQ

The beleaguered booster drive was dealt a fresh blow today as over 40s which were only yesterday urged to come forward for their booster were turned away by staff contrary to official NHS guidance. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3Izi5iO

West Northamptonshire is at the centre of England's Covid outbreak, official figures reveal today. But eight of ten areas with the most cases are in London. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3Gvp1M2

Antibody drug Evusheld, which was found to cuts the risk of falling ill with Covid by more than 80 per cent, has received emergency approval in the US for the immunocompromised. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dCloaU

Boris Johnson activated England's coronavirus contingency plan last night in response to the highly-mutated variant after being warned it would overwhelm the NHS if left to spread unchecked. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3DCjJNa

NHS England data shows 5.98million people were waiting for routine surgery, such as hip and knee replacements, including more than 300,000 who had waited for more than a year. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3rOlZys

King's College London scientists estimated 83,658 people were catching the virus on any given day over the week to December 4, up slightly from 80,483 previously. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/30d2WTc

The country's National Institute for Communicable Diseases recorded another 19,842 infections over the past 24 hours, more than double the tally from last Wednesday. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3lNlsZQ

Some over 40s in the UK have been knocked back from the NHS Covid booster booking system despite officials urging eligible Britons to come forward and book their jab to help ward off Omicron. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3y39K2c

EXCLUSIVE: Just 21 per cent of over-50s in Sparkhill North, Birmingham, received a third jab by November 28, with thirteen other areas jabbing less than a quarter. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3pCgTTp

A new 'sister' lineage of Omicron has been discovered in Australia, with cases also found in South Africa and Canada. Officials say the new type is not as easy to detect as the original Omicron. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3y1aJjq

Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, is standing by his sweeping vaccine mandates announced Monday, even saying in an interview with CNN that he believes it will protect businesses. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ItzoSl

Researchers at AHRI found that recipients of the Pfizer vaccine have less available antibodies to prevent infection from the Omicron variant as they have other variants. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31IxpIX

As at home COVID-19 tests become increasingly popular in the US, results from these tests often aren't reported to public health officials, leading to blind spots in tracking and contact tracing. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3EBYex5

As of Monday, 60% of Americans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to CDC data. This includes 70% of Americans age 12 and up, 72% of adults, and 87% of seniors. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3du7N5n

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has issued a public health advisory focused on mental health among children, teens, and young adults during COVID-19. The pandemic worsened a worrying trend into a crisis. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3owazgE

South Africa's National Institute For Communicable Diseases reported another 13,147 cases in the last 24 hours, up 200 per cent on the figure last Tuesday. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3y0KQ3f

Researchers from McGill University found that the COVID-19 pandemic caused a surge in the amount of people suffering from anorexia during Covid's first wave. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3GqtMqu

The truth is that more than half of your body weight is unrelated to anything you may have eaten. It is actually the weight of parts of your body - from your heart to your muscles and even blood. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ouv2CP

DR MARTIN SCURR: A healthy testosterone level is 10 nmol/l to 30 nmol/l (nanomoles of testosterone per litre of blood). from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3y0wccc

DR JONATHAN DARROW: Adopting this approach is perfectly possible, and yet few medicines give clear, tangible guidance on how well they worked in clinical trials. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3pAZuu4

Animal research by the same team of scientists who analysed the data also found that the drug - which costs £2 a pill - slows down the rate at which age-related macular degeneration progresses. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dtTvSl

The sun was shining, the poolside music playing and Rachel Humphrey, her husband Chris and their three children were enjoying a longed-for holiday in Tenerife. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3oryXQI

The out-of-court settlement - the largest for a stillbirth clinical negligence case in the UK - was agreed five years after Sarah and Jack Hawkins' daughter Harriet died. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dt1sXK

Recent research found that a quarter of women affected by severe, persistent nausea and vomiting during pregnancy suffered suicidal thoughts as a result. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3DxnenX

CHARLIE STARMER-SMITH: Lockdown so steepened the slope down which Dad was slipping that by the time we could finally hug or hold his hand, any lucidity had all but gone. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3y2TmPm

Health Secretary Sajid Javid told MPs 'multiple regions of England' were seeing cases of the variant that were not linked to international travel. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3xXTWOh

A research review published in the journal BMJ Open revealed that people with coughs, colds and flu-like symptoms felt better two days earlier when they took zinc supplements. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3oPeZhD

The promising Italian study found that while the new strain has more than triple the micro mutations as Delta, there are still large swathes of the virus that remain vulnerable to the immune system. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3IplS2f

A study of more than 7million Americans by the Cleveland Clinic found those taking sildenafil were nearly a third less likely to develop Alzheimer's than those not taking the medication. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3rArHnA

Boris Johnson defended the government's response to the emergence of the variant, saying the restrictions on states where it had been detected was 'decisive'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3os9sP3

Nearly 500 nurses and midwives have signed a petition calling for the UK's nursing regulator to leave a scheme run by controversial charity Stonewall over concerns of women's safety. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3xVwMIg

Paige Bliss, 25, from Birmingham spent five days in intensive care after coronavirus put her in a critical condition as her foetus was taking all her nutrients and extra oxygen. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3EuFWxU

British scientists, including SAGE, have warned against the narrative that Omicron is a weaker strain, claiming that it could put significant pressure on the NHS because it's so infectious. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3Gj4Uk8

NHS England figures revealed that three times more children are jabbed in affluent parts of the country compared to central London boroughs. Labour said more needed to be done. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dlgNK9

Changes to the travel rules have been announced by the UK Government over the past ten days all with only a few days' notice - leaving thousands of passengers at the mercy of testing firms. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3DtHqqT

The newly discovered Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus has caused panic across the globe, but is this fear justified? The Mail on Sunday has spoken to UK experts who are optimistic. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31sGLcb

Conditions that affect the blood's ability to clot affect roughly 43,000 women in the UK, yet only just over a third have been diagnosed, according to the latest figures. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3xS09Lz

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: I recently had to tell a friend, who has chosen not to get vaccinated, that he is no longer welcome to a small social gathering I've organised next week. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dg7F9u

DR ELLIE CANNON: For most people, nausea is a transient symptom lasting only a few days. It is not usual to feel nauseated every morning and regularly. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3pqrbWn

While some argue the procedure meddles with nature, saying it creates designer babies, to the 15,000 or so British families who would benefit, there is no question that it offers enormous hope. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3poFlHL

Following authorisation from Britain's medicines watchdog, doctors hope the pill, diroximel fumarate - brand name Vumerity - could provide more sufferers the opportunity to control their condition. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3pvdAxh

The robots, one-hundredth of a millimetre in size, were made my Chinese scientists using a special 3D printing technique, from a gel that changes shape when exposed to different pH levels. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3EpB6C7

A new study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine found that, in 2019, 11.7% of pregnant women with HIV used marijuana, up from the 7% who did so in 2007. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31pyK7S

Sotrovimab, sold under the brand name Xevudy, cuts the risk of hospitalisation by 79 per cent among those at risk from the virus. But there are fears it may be less effective against Omicron. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31iDxbb

The ZOE symptom-tracking study estimated that 80,483 people in the UK fell ill per day in the week ending November 27, based on test results from around 650,000 volunteers. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3Ekjasg

UK Health Security Agency's weekly surveillance report showed that despite concerns about Omicron none of the councils where it has been detected are recording a sudden surge in cases. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2ZMfsZw

New shocking images display the extent of Omicron's divergent evolution, highlighting the 32 spike mutations that has prompted fear and concern from scientists and the UK government. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3xJD11K

Data from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa shows 8,561 new Covid cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, a jump of 95.8 per cent in a day. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3pjZAGh

A World Health Organization official said early evidence suggests most people who become infected with the strain, which may have emerged in Botswana, only suffer 'mild' symptoms. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3xPYTbS

UKHSA data show Britain recorded 48,374 new cases over the last 24 hours, up 10.8 per cent on last week's total of 43,676. It was the first time the amount of positive tests increased last Friday. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31iHdcK

Omicron was in UK for at least four days prior to South Africa warning the world of the new variant with nine cases in Scotland traced back to before the UK introduced travel restrictions. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3rpBs7Q

England's GPs have a 'new national mission' to focus on delivering Covid booster vaccines to ward off Omicron Sajid Javid says. But there a fears face-to-face appointments will fall to the wayside. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3lr0akx

Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show coronavirus fatalities fell from 1,020 in the week ending November 5 - the highest level since March - to 952 in the week ending November 19. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2ZFZK1Z

Scientists from the Stellenbosch University, near Cape Town, said the findings suggest Omicron is able to evade protection people have from a previous infection, unlike the Beta and Delta strains. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3oiuqzK

UKHSA data shows there were 53,945 positive tests in the last 24 hours, up 14.2 per cent on the 47,240 recorded last Thursday. It was the second day in a row cases have increased. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3pjb7pn

Officials said on Thursday the newly confirmed Omicron cases consist of one individual in Suffolk County, two in Queens, one in Brooklyn, and one in an undisclosed New York City borough. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ogFBZS

A new study from Queen Mary University of London found that people with allergic conditions such as hay fever, rhinitis, atopic diseases and asthma had an up to 40% lower risk of COVID-19 infection. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3lxR31o

Some Americans are receiving bills for thousands of dollars after receiving COVID-19 tests that they believe are free. One expert blames America's confusing medical system. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ofCMIE

Dr Anne Von Gottberg, a microbiologist from South Africa said on Thursday that the country is seeing a high rate of Omicron reinfections and it's higher than the rate for Delta reinfections. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3EovUyb

Minnesota Department of Health confirmed the case on Thursday in a resident who had recently traveled to NYC. It comes a day after health officials in San Francisco confirmed the first U.S. Omicron case. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31neK5F

Some experts say Moderna not sharing its Covid vaccine has partly led to the emergence of variants such as the Omicron variant, which was recently detected by South African researchers. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3luP9yP

Michigan is experiencing its highest COVID-19 case numbers of the pandemic thus far, and the surge is driven by unvaccinated people. The state has the highest case rate in the US as of December 1. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/31mvXMI

Researchers at the VA found that the COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing infection or death from the virus in cancer patients, even if the protection is not as strong as the general population. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3dtwL53

Hospitalizations in the U.S. are growing in America. Last year, this time of the year preceded the biggest Covid surge to date. The holiday season, cold weather and the Omicron variant are contributors. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3d6odkl