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Drug overdose deaths have spiked in the U.S. due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic, a new advisory finds. More than 81,000 fatalities occurred in the 12-month period ending in May 2020, a nearly 20 percent rise from the 12-month period ending in June 2019, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and … Read more
Long-term homeowners could be sitting on a property goldmine as the average price of a home across Britain’s towns and cities in the last 20 years has soared by nearly 80 per cent, or nearly £100,000, new data reveals. Out of 50 towns and cities, Manchester has seen the biggest jump in prices in the two … Read more
Deaths from heart disease have shot up by nearly 5,000 since the start of the pandemic, new figures show. Doctors have repeatedly warned that patients have stayed away from hospital throughout the crisis, for fear of being exposed to Covid and to avoid putting additional pressure on the NHS. Delays to surgery and routine heart care … Read more
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos cashes in $3billion of his shares which have risen more than 75% this year as pandemic drives more shoppers online Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has sold more than $3 billion worth of his stock Shares in the company have surged more 75% since the start of this year In January, one … Read more
Manchester’s coronavirus rate has risen FIFTEEN-fold since local lockdown came in – with local mayor Andy Burnham warning the north faces a ‘winter of discontent’ Latest figures show that Manchester now faces rate of 335.9 cases per 100,000 This is far worsened from 20 per 100,000 at start of local lockdowns in area Mayor Andy … Read more
MMR vaccine uptake has risen for the first time in SIX years, new figures reveal Proportion of children with first dose of MMR vaccine increased 90.6 per cent It is still below the 95 per cent experts say is required for herd immunity The increase follows the Daily Mail’s Give The Children Their Jabs campaign … Read more
US hospitalizations for alcoholism have risen 3.5% since 1998 – but the death rate for patients who get treated has fallen by a THIRD Researchers looked at medical insurance claims for hospitalizations for alcohol use disorder between 1998 and 2016 Hospitalizations increased by 3.5% from more than 274,000 in 1998 to more than 284,000 in … Read more
Lockdown fears are brewing in London as cases have risen 33 per cent in one week – faster than the North East, which today was hit by tougher restrictions to control the spread of the virus. The number of cases per 100,000 has jumped up from 18.8 to around 25 in seven days amid schools … Read more
Covid-19 cases are soaring among middle-aged people in England and have almost doubled in a fortnight as the outbreak continues to grow, official figures show. Public Health England (PHE) data reveals 23.4 cases are now diagnosed for every 100,000 people aged between 40 and 49 — up from 12.4 at the end of August. And coronavirus … Read more
Ten per cent more of Britain’s sickest coronavirus patients are surviving than at the start of the pandemic. Analysis of NHS records shows that 44 per cent of intensive care admissions were dying of the virus when the pandemic first started to spiral out of control in March. The Intensive Care National Audit and Research … Read more