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Disturbing data shows 237% increase in alcohol-related deaths for over-55s in the last 25 years, with COVID stress and higher amounts of disposable income blamed for problem

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Rachel Carter

By Dominic Yeatman For Dailymail.Com 19:02 31 Mar 2024, updated 19:03 31 Mar 2024 Doctors are warning of a demographic timebomb as ...

Bad flu is nearly twice as likely to leave you with long-term brain damage than severe Covid, suggests new study

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Rachel Carter

By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com 20:06 20 Mar 2024, updated 20:21 20 Mar 2024 The long-lasting symptoms of flu are ...

Catching Covid has made people less intelligent

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Rachel Carter

Catching Covid makes people less intelligent, with severe infections reducing IQ the most, a study suggests. Britons who avoided the disease typically ...

COVID helped to kill off a flu strain. Here’s how that will affect influenza vaccines in the future.

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Olivia Martin

This fall’s flu shot will be designed to protect you from just three strains of the influenza virus, instead of the usual ...

COVID-19 gave me POTS disorder — here’s what the illness is like

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Rachel Carter

Four years after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, Yahoo Canada spoke with several people still living with long COVID. Read their ...

What to know about new isolation guidelines, the end of free tests and plans for a fall vaccine

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Olivia Martin

A lot has changed since SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for COVID-19) appeared on the world stage four years ago. In 2020 the ...

Low iron levels after infection ‘might be trigger of poorly-understood illness’

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Rachel Carter

By Xantha Leatham, Deputy Science Editor For The Daily Mail 14:51 04 Mar 2024, updated 17:03 04 Mar 2024  1.9 million people ...

The CDC has dropped its 5-day COVID isolation guidelines. Here’s why — and what’s changed.

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Olivia Martin

The last time the CDC changed its COVID-19 isolation recommendations was in 2021, when it reduced the isolation time for infected people ...

Covid ‘pandemic babies’ show two ‘fascinating’ biological changes, study finds

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Rachel Carter

By Caitlin Tilley, Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com 22:14 01 Mar 2024, updated 00:32 02 Mar 2024 Babies born during pandemic-era lockdowns have ...

500 dying per DAY from booze in latest figures… more than COVID now!

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Rachel Carter

By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com 16:33 01 Mar 2024, updated 16:36 01 Mar 2024 Alcohol killed 178,000 Americans in ...