The findings from the University of Hong Kong indicate coronavirus will continue to spread among the global population despite herd immunity but ‘does not mean taking vaccines will be useless’ Survivors of coronavirus can catch the potentially deadly virus again,…
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE School teacher Halie Tennant said she felt she had lost her identity having suffered life-changing injuries after her friend found her head first in the fire Halie Tennant was found head first in a campfire by her…
Surgeons were forced to operate on the 52-year-old woman, from New Delhi after she developed breathing problems and complained about acute pain in her abdomen Doctors removed the huge tumour that had grown on the woman’s ovary (Image: supplied) A…
Mr Navalny, a 44-year-old politician who is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, was admitted to an intensive care unit on Thursday following a suspected poisoning Medical specialists carry Alexei Navalny on a stretcher into an ambulance on…
The schoolgirl, from Espírito Santo State in Brazil, was preyed on by her sick relative for four years, but when she tried to get an abortion her local hospital refused and she was targeted by activists The young girl was…
A wildfire grows near a home on Twilight Lane in Santa Cruz, California, on Aug. 19, 2020. If I dare to give the coronavirus credit for anything, I would say it has made people more conscious of the air they…
Hundreds of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes will soon be released in the Florida Keys island chain to wipe out local populations of disease-carrying mosquitoes, according to news reports. The big questions are, will it work and will it have…
Is honey a better treatment for coughs and colds than over-the-counter medications and antibiotics? A new review of research says yes — though with the caveat that over-the-counter medications don’t actually offer much relief for sore throats, hacking coughs and…
A stock photo of a commercial fishing boat. An outbreak of COVID-19 on a fishing boat has provided scientists with the first direct evidence that antibodies really do protect people from re-infection. More than 100 of the 122 crew members…
Family and friends of Vladimir Putin foe Alexei Navalny claimed Russia is risking his life by refusing to allow him to be flown to Germany for treatment after he was ‘poisoned’ at Tomsk airport Supporters of prominent Vladimir Putin foe…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) won’t authorize the use of blood plasma to treat COVID-19 patients until more data about the treatment can be reviewed, federal officials announced. Convalescent plasma (CP) therapy relies on blood plasma donations from…
The Walter Reed Hospital flu ward in Washington D.C. treated patients during the 1918 flu pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to become more deadly than the 1918 flu pandemic, a new study suggests. Remembered as the deadliest pandemic…