A ground-breaking new procedure has saved six children’s lives through reanimated heart surgery. The scientific breakthrough, known as donation after circulatory death (DCD), allows hearts to be brought back to life and kept beating outside of a human body until
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Captain Sir Tom Moore ‘wouldn’t want big funeral’ as he hated fuss being made
Captain Sir Tom Moore wanted a low-key funeral, his family have revealed. The World War Two veteran and fundraiser, who died aged 100 on Tuesday, hated the thought of a fuss being made. More than 230,000 people have signed a
Full list of important lockdown and vaccine dates you need to know in 2021
Coronavirus has been impacting our lives for just under a year now, despite the majority of us being certain it wouldn't be more than a few weeks until things were "back to normal". As we deal with the government's ever-changing
COVID-19: NHS eyeing plans to move hospital patients into hotels, as Hancock says end of restrictions ‘impossible to know’
The NHS is considering plans to discharge patients into hotels as hospitals become swamped with COVID patients, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed – as he said it was “impossible to know” how long lockdown restrictions might last. Mr Hancock
Conspiracy theorists stalk ’empty’ hospitals at night claiming ‘Covid is hoax’
While NHS staff say they are "near breaking point" as they deal with the rapid rise in Covid-19 cases, a minority of conspiracy theorists are stalking hospital corridors at night, making videos that they claim "prove" that hospitals are empty.
Top 10 list of areas in England where Covid-19 is now spreading fastest
As England was plunged into its third national lockdown last week – the deadly coronavirus was on the rise in 98% of the country's local authorities. In the seven days leading up to January 3, infections increased in 309 of
Doctor warns that Covid patients in the ICU are ‘competing for ventilators’
Coronavirus patients on NHS intensive care wards are 'competing' for ventilators to keep them alive as hospital admissions continue to rise, a doctor has warned. Dr Megan Smith, from Guy's and ST Thomas' Hospital Trust in London, said medics are
Oxford vaccine priority list in full and when rollout of Covid jab will start
A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca has finally been approved for use in the UK. The government has already secured 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, enough to vaccinate 50million people. Healthcare workers are
Sick anti-vax conspiracy theorists claim first Brit to get jab ‘died in 2008’
Vile anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists have targeted the first Brit to receive the new coronavirus jab, with some even bizarrely claiming she actually died 12 years ago. On Tuesday, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan became the first to get the Covid vaccine as
Pregnant women urged not to get Covid jab because ‘risks are still unknown’
Pregnant women will not be given the new coronavirus vaccine until after they have given birth, guidance as revealed. The news comes as the UK became the first country in the world to approve a vaccine for use today. But