Nurse who gave birth as she was dying of Covid-19 never held her daughter

Rarely a day goes by without two-year-old AJ Boateng asking for his mother. His father, Ernest, holds him tight and says they’ll see her later. He can’t bring himself to tell his little boy that his mother is dead. Mary Agyapong, 28, was heavily pregnant and working as a nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital … Read more

Lily Allen continues to showcase her lockdown greys as she sings about dying her locks and hair loss

She recently joked she’s become a ‘granny’ when she unveiled grey streaks in her mane. And Lily Allen continued to showcase her natural tresses as she sang about getting rid of her silver strands in an Instagram post shared on Tuesday. While examining her ‘do, the musician, 35, poked fun about her ‘hair loss’ as … Read more

Number of people dying in England and Wales drops BELOW average for the first time since March

Number of people dying in England and Wales drops BELOW average for the first time since coronavirus spiralled out of control in March, official statistics show By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 09:44 BST, 30 June 2020 | Updated: 10:04 BST, 30 June 2020 The number of people dying each week in … Read more

Could statins reduce the risk of dying from Covid-19?

Giving hospitalised Covid-19 patients statins could cut their risk of dying or needing to be hooked up to a ventilator, a study has suggested. Chinese researchers found severely-ill patients given the cholesterol-busting drugs – which can cost just pennies – were up to 45 per cent less likely to die. And data showed statins cut … Read more

‘Silver fox’ Phillip Schofield crashes GMB interview about men dying their grey hair

‘Silver fox’ Phillip Schofield crashes GMB interview about men dying their grey hair… revealing he stopped doing it because he ‘got bored and its expensive’ By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 10:08 BST, 25 June 2020 | Updated: 10:17 BST, 25 June 2020 Phillip Schofield crashed a discussion on Thursday’s Good Morning Britain which saw … Read more

Dying to change the world? History is littered with brutal political assassinations

HISTORY  ON ASSASSINATIONS   by Kenneth Baker (Unicorn £20, 256pp) Too close for comfort and too often — that is Tory grandee Lord (Kenneth) Baker’s personal experience of assassinations. In 1979, he was in the library of the House of Commons when he heard the bang and felt the shock as, just yards away, a bomb … Read more

Spending 30 minutes less time sitting down a day may cut the risks of dying from cancer by 8%

Spending 30 minutes less time sitting down a day may cut the risks of dying from cancer by 8% – and replacing it with a half-hour workout may reduce risks by 31%, study finds Researchers looked at the activity levels of 8,000 adults and the association between movement and cancer death Those who didn’t die … Read more

Having an underlying health condition raises the risk of dying of coronavirus by 12-FOLD

Revealed: Having an underlying health condition raises the risk of dying of coronavirus by 12-FOLD, new CDC data shows Researchers found that the most chronic health issues in coronavirus patients were cardiovascular disease, diabetes and lung disease Hospitalizations were six times higher, with 45.4% of those with underlying conditions hospitalized compared to 7.6% who didn’t have … Read more

School children under 15 have just a 3.5MILLION-to-one chance of dying from coronavirus

School children under the age of 15 have a ‘tiny’ one-in-3.5 million chance of dying from coronavirus, according to statistics. Analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics by scientists from the University of Cambridge shows that the coronavirus risk to children is extremely low. The death rate for youngsters aged five to 14 … Read more