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UKHSA’s Prof Susan Hopkins questioned over face masks at Covid inquiry. There is only “weak evidence” that high-grade face masks better protected health workers than surgical ones in the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has been told. Prof Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said respirator masks – known as…

The Dignity in Dying campaign group says more than 200 million people around the world have legal access to some form of assisted dying, external. Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide since 1942 and its Dignitas facility began operating in 1998. The organisation accepts foreign patients as well as Swiss nationals, and said it had 1,900…

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders could be triggered by air pollution, including the type emitted in car exhaust, a new study suggested — though it had some limitations. The review, led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem, analyzed multiple studies related to autism and cellular activity. The findings were published in the journal…

HANDOUT Kari Aaron Clark thinks it’s essential to have a property before becoming a parent The number of babies born in England and Wales is now the lowest since the 1970s, official statistics show. The fertility rate – which measures how many children are born per woman during her child-bearing years – is the lowest…

Getty Images Data suggests homeworkers spend more time on sleep and exercise than their office-working counterparts Homeworkers are using the time saved by not commuting to stay longer in bed, new figures suggest. They got an average of 24 minutes extra “sleep and rest” and spent an additional 15 minutes on things such as exercise,…

Getty Images The provision of PPE for healthcare workers is being explored in this part of the Covid inquiry (stock image) The chair of the Covid inquiry has refused an application from the UK Health Security Agency to keep the identities of two junior clinicians secret. Lawyers for UKHSA applied for an order preventing publication…