Coronavirus tests – the basics
Understanding what the different tests mean and how they can be used most appropriately underpins the test and trace process. International Medical Information (IMI) interviewed two pathology experts […]
Understanding what the different tests mean and how they can be used most appropriately underpins the test and trace process. International Medical Information (IMI) interviewed two pathology experts […]
More than a third of people (34%) in Turkey and one sixth of people (17%) in the UK are ‘hesitant’ about a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a study by UCL […]
A largescale global trial designed to test the theory that the widely-used BCG vaccine could help protect against COVID-19 will soon recruit healthcare staff and care home workers […]
Indomethacin reduces the severity and duration of covid-19 symptoms and the need for hospital admissions There is mounting evidence to support the use of indomethacin to control covid-19 […]
As politicians grapple with the idea of a lockdown or a more stringent lockdown GPs have called for an end to the ‘one-track’ response – using covid deaths […]
A study by O’Leary and colleagues, which appears in Arthritis Care & Research, looks at sedentary behaviour in people with RA and factors that may be associated with it. […]
As the number of signatures on the Great Barrington Declaration nears half a million, support for the focused protection that it advocates appears to be growing There are […]
A University of Queensland-led team of international researchers says supercharged “clones” of the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes are to blame for the resurgence of the disease, which has caused high death […]
Flu vaccination is safe, effective and is offered free of charge to thirty million people in the UK this year in the country’s largest flu-immunisation programme to date […]
Cannabis could become a potentially effective treatment for pain associated with sickle cell disease, researchers reported on July 17, 2020 in Hematology. Cannabis could become a potentially effective treatment […]
Treatment of Type 2 diabetes with metformin appears to inhibit cognitive decline and development of dementia in older patients, researchers reported on Sept. 23, 2020 in Diabetes Care. “We’ve […]
Dozens of the most widely used blood pressure medications show no tendency to elevate risk of depression, Danish researchers report. They also noted that some of these treatments […]