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We know smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol in pregnancy harms the ­unborn baby. It can cause low weight, a failure to thrive and a vulnerability to chest infections and hospital admissions in infancy. I remember the moment I read the … Read More

The Government has ­declared its goal of getting up to 10 million Covid swab tests a day. But which tests and how? Our testing system is still less than perfect with tests going astray, results arriving too late for any … Read More

There’s something wonderful going on here in the UK of which we can all be very proud. It’s called the Vaccine Taskforce (VT) and its aim is to ensure that we have access to a vaccine as soon as possible … Read More

Scientists are worried about Boris Johnson’s “Moonshot” not just because it’s pie in the sky and over-promising the nation, but that it’s scientifically unsound. The problem is that Boris, and presumably Matt Hancock, want to do mass screening with the swab test … Read More

Does the Government have a clear long-term goal on ­tackling coronavirus? I’m not sure. Oh, yes, they want fewer infections, fewer admissions to ­hospital, fewer patients in intensive care and fewer deaths. We all do. But do they aim to eliminate … Read More

President Donald Trump defiles everything he touches. At the end of June he announced that the US government had bought up all the coronavirus vaccines that would be produced in America. No one else could get a look in. His presumptive … Read More

Recently I read a medical report that horrified me. It showed that black newborn babies are less likely to die when black doctors take care of them rather than white doctors. I simply can’t compute this info, can’t countenance that … Read More

As a rule of thumb, type 1 ­diabetes is defined as needing insulin and first appears in childhood or teen age. Type 2, on the other hand, tends to appear in later life, usually middle age, mostly doesn’t require ­insulin … Read More

One of the ways we keep our spirits up during this Covid pandemic is by pinning our hopes on a vaccine. At least most of us do. But there’s a group of people who couldn’t care less, the antivaxxers – … Read More

We are seeing the emergence of a new medical condition that is called “post-acute ­Covid-19” or “long Covid”. As yet, we have precious little ­information on it, but it’s there. The classic picture of the syndrome is delayed recovery from … Read More