Over the years, much has been written about a person’s need to work. Work has great mental health rewards as well as financial gain. It gives us a personal sense of usefulness, service, achievement and the nourishment of social contact, … Read More
Why footballers are heading down the road to dementia
So the vexed question of dementia in football players has reared its ugly head again. This time with the news that Sir Bobby Charlton has become the fifth member of the England World Cup winning squad to develop the neuro-degenerative … Read More
Read the oxygen warning signs until vaccine arrives
At the end of any discussion about controlling the pandemic, we fall back on, “but there’s always the vaccine”, as though we sail into a new world of calm waters, few restrictions and open borders, with coronavirus a distant memory. … Read More
Mass antibody tests will give us invaluable Covid information
After having a Covid antibody test in July following my Covid illness at the beginning of February, I was surprised to find I had antibodies six months after my infection. No one knows how long Covid antibodies last, so in … Read More
How your happiness levels can help shape our future
Years ago, when I had a TV show called Where There’s Life, we decided to do a programme on QUALYs, a new measurement that was decisive in apportioning money for treatments between equally deserving patients in order to share out … Read More
Pregnant mums using cannabis cause disturbing behaviour in children
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
We’re sprinting ahead with game-changing Covid tests
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
Vaccine Taskforce leads the quest for Covid cure
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
Flawed Boris Johnson Moonshot will never achieve lift-off
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
Killing off Covid-19 looks like pie in the sky, so we must learn to live with it
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