How a shabby shed could hold the key to beating a silent killer: An alarming new study suggests dirty air costs as many as 90,000 lives in Britain a year. Now a unique research project aims to reveal what s to blame Shed at University of Birmingham could identify best ways to clean up
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Cleaning up dirty air could cut the rates of asthma, dementia and heart disease
Alternative treatments for Long Covid have been criticised, but for some sufferers, they are giving relief
Long Covid comes with an array of debilitating symptoms and can be difficult to treat with conventional medicine, so what else is available?
Yoga teacher Alexandra Reece-Ford says a holistic approach is helping to relieve her long Covid symptoms
Gwyneth Paltrow may have had a telling off from NHS England’s Professor Stephen Powis this week for recommending the high-fat keto diet and infrared saunas as a way to treat long Covid, but in the absence of concrete treatments, many sufferers are seeking alternatives and taking matters into their own hands.
Yuma County is among the worst-hit communities by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The County’s COVID-19 positivity test rate of 20 percent, compared to the state’s average of 14 percent, is an indicator of how much the virus is spreading.
The University of Arizona’s Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture, and state and local authorities, launched a wastewater testing project to try to get ahead of virus outbreaks.
Wastewater testing can identify COVID-19 infection spikes in a community up to a week before laboratory testing.
Paul Brierley, Executive Director of the Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture says data collected from wastewater testing can be used to mobilize public health officials early.
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Randomised trials could help to return children safely to schools, says report
A research team led by the University of Birmingham says school reopening policies currently “lack a rigorous evidence base”
Jo Golding
A research team led by scientists at the University of Birmingham have said staging randomised trials when pupils return could help clarify uncertainties around when to send children back to the classroom.
The team – which includes experts from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Western University, Canada – said school reopening policies currently “lack a rigorous evidence base”, leading to variation around the world.
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