Social distancing is helping to reduce number of coronavirus cases, suggests fever map

Maps of fever readings from across the country seem to indicate that strict social distancing measures may be helping reduce cases of the novel coronavirus. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has uploaded data from hundreds of thousands of smart thermometers connected to the Internet. The firm can’t track the spread of … Read more

SpaceX’s Starship manual suggests the craft could be used for hauling cargo and up to 100 passengers

SpaceX’s new Starship suggests the craft could be used for hauling multiple satellites or up to 100 passengers in a single journey The manual outlines multiple use cases for SpaceX’s Starship craft The company foresees Starship being able to carry multiple satellites into orbit It can also be configured to carry 100 passengers on a single … Read more

Lockdowns are the best hope to slow the spread of coronavirus, suggests new Chinese study

Lockdowns and travel restrictions are the best methods to slow the spread of coronavirus, a new study of China suggests. Researchers from the University of Oxford in the UK and Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, found that in Wuhan – the epicenter of the outbreak – restriction on travels came too late. Once the locked … Read more

Acupuncture is up to four times better at easing migraines than drugs, new study suggests

Acupuncture is up to four times better at easing migraines than drugs, new study suggests Patients given acupuncture suffer two fewer migraines a month, study finds  Dr Heather Angus-Leppan says it is ‘an acceptable evidence – based treatment’ Study used acupuncture along with ‘sham’ test and usual migraine treatments  By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:40 … Read more

Chinese state media suggests coronavirus pandemic originated in Italy

Chinese media outlets have linked the origin of the coronavirus pandemic with Italy after a Milan-based professor said doctors there saw ‘very strange’ pneumonia cases as early as November. Beijing is now rejecting the widely held assessment that the city of Wuhan is the birthplace of the global outbreak after the number of daily infections … Read more

Natural birth is safe for 90% of women who have previously had a caesarean, new research suggests 

Natural birth is safe for 90% of women who have previously had a caesarean, new research suggests Nine in ten women who had C-section can give birth naturally, study suggests Up to half of women having C-sections do so due to having had one in the past Many women are concerned of tearing their scar … Read more

Married At First Sight’s Ivan Sarakula dangerously suggests that coronavirus is a conspiracy

Married At First Sight’s Ivan Sarakula dangerously suggests coronavirus is a ‘conspiracy’ – as seven Australians die and more than 1,700 test positive By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 22:48 GMT, 23 March 2020 | Updated: 23:02 GMT, 23 March 2020 Married At First Sight’s Ivan Sarakula has dangerously suggested that the global … Read more

Best books on home tutoring: Author Patricia Nicol suggests the best books for education

Best books on home tutoring: Author Patricia Nicol suggests the best books for education Millions of parents across the country are home-schooling while isolating She said her sons are aged eight and 11 and are in year 4 and year 6 at school Patricia Nicol said that thankfully the Easter holidays will soon be upon … Read more

Beijing’s expert suggests the US may have got a strain of the coronavirus before China

A Chinese medical expert has suggested that the US may have obtained a specimen of the novel coronavirus before China did, raising the possibility that Washington had known about the disease before Beijing. Dr Chen Xuyan from Beijing claimed that the first possible vaccine had entered clinical trials in America ‘way too quickly’.  She made … Read more

One third of students drop out of courses due to mental health issues, poll suggests

One third of students who drop out of their course cite mental health issues as the reason, poll suggests Nearly 16,000 students suffered a mental health problem in 2019 1 in 4 felt pressured by parents to pick a course likely to lead straight to good job  Students need to be taught the skills to … Read more