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British health chiefs last night finally approved an antibody test, after several weeks of disappointment in the UK’s plan to roll-out the game-changing kits. Ministers are in talks with Swiss firm Roche to buy millions of the tests, which will be given to NHS and social care workers before being rolled out wider. Here, MailOnline … Read more
New Prince Harry and Meghan Markle book will be the ‘definitive story’ and an accurate portrayal of the couple’s lives as modern royals, say authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand’s book Finding Freedom due out in the summer Book is advertised as an ‘honest, up-close and disarming portrait,’ of the couple Authors say they had … Read more
A Google-developed AI that was capable of identifying cases of diabetic retinopathy (DR) with 90 percent accuracy in the testing laboratory has turned out to be much less useful in clinics and hospitals. In laboratory settings, the AI designed by Google Health performed at the equivalent level of a medical ‘specialist,’ but in testing at … Read more
A new study of coronavirus antibody tests that are currently on the market revealed that at least eight out of 14 had an accuracy rate of more than 95 percent and three were more than 99 percent accurate, but doctors remain concerned that more work needs to be done before they can be solely relied upon … Read more
A Belgian biotech firm claims it has developed a foolproof coronavirus antibody test that is 100 per cent accurate. Liege-based ZenTech said it had started making tens of thousands of its government-certified tests a week. Zentech plans to roll them out in Belgium first before scaling up manufacturing to three million per month so the … Read more
The coronavirus has now spread to almost 70 countries around the world and health officials are scrambling to stop people spreading the virus among themselves. But with many patients not realizing they’re ill, and others carrying on with normal life until they are diagnosed, the fast-spreading infection is proving difficult to contain. Avoiding an infection … Read more
Football fans in need of a fix while world sport is on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, might be interested in watching Netflix series The English Game. The six-part series, from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, centres around real-life, Glasgow-born footballer Fergus Suter (Kevin Guthrie), who is considered to be the first full-time, professional player … Read more
A British firm behind a cheap DIY coronavirus test which is ‘almost 100 per cent accurate’ claims its offer to mass produce them for the NHS has fallen on deaf ears. The UK Government is looking to significantly upgrade its testing capacity after admitting it did not have enough screening kits to keep up with … Read more
A US doctor is warning Americans that the coronavirus epidemic is moving too quickly to have an accurate death and illness rate. On Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced the global mortality rate jumped to 3.4 percent, up from the previously reported two percent. But Dr Jennifer Ashton, ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent, told Good … Read more