With flu season arriving early and NHS leaders encouraging people with symptoms to wear masks in public, a question arises: do masks actually work against the flu? The short answer is that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winter is here and so is peak flu season. Historically, flu season outbreaks are the worst between December and February, and this ...

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch this afternoon issued a statement after Downing Street spoke out and an NHS leader told people with cold and flu symptoms to ‘wear a mask’. Daniel Elkeles, chief executive of ...

Paul Hunter consults for the World Health Organization. He receives funding from National Institute for Health Research and has received funding from the World Health Organization and the European ...

Kemi Badenoch has rejected calls for masks to be worn in public again, as NHS bosses talk of a coming “tidal wave” of flu infections. I am “still slightly traumatised by all the mask-wearing that we ...