Body Wellness

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