Shiranee Sriskandan, professor of infectious disease within the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College London, explains how a study of COVID-19 in London schools provides insights for this winter and future ...
Oct 24, 2022
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Researchers from the University of Oxford have today reported findings from a large-scale study that examined the impact of the UK's MenACWY vaccination program on the carriage of meningitis bacteria in the throats of UK ...
Oct 7, 2022
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A new study has found that teenagers have a hard time discerning between fake and true health messages. Only 48% of the participants trusted accurate health messages (without editorial elements) more than fake ones. Meanwhile, ...
Aug 29, 2022
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All children born before full term are more likely to have poorer attainment during primary school compared with children born full term (39–41 weeks), but only children born very preterm—before 32 weeks—remain at risk ...
Aug 17, 2022
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Researchers are calling for urgent changes to the GCSE science curriculum to help equip learners with sufficient scientific literacy to be able to identify reliable sources and inform their future vaccination decision-making ...
Aug 15, 2022
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A new study published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health shows teachers and other school staff are worried about the impact of rising e-cigarette use on student mental health and performance, with ...
Jul 20, 2022
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British primary and secondary schoolchildren are getting the majority of their lunchtime calories from 'ultra-processed' foods, according to a study led by researchers at Imperial College London and published today in the ...
Jul 20, 2022
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Psychologists have successfully trialed a new intervention which makes schoolchildren cut down on unhealthy snacking.
Jul 6, 2022
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New data from the School Infection Survey (SIS) showed that 1.8% of primary school pupils and 4.8% of secondary school pupils experienced long COVID following their most recent COVID-19 infection (since March 2020).
Jun 16, 2022
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New research being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4-7 May), suggests secondary school pupils across the West Midlands region of the UK are not eating a healthy, sustainable ...
May 4, 2022
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