An online breathing and wellbeing programme helps improve quality of life and breathlessness for people recovering from COVID-19, according to a new study. This is one of the first clinical trials to report an effective intervention for people with post-COVID syndrome, also known as long COVID. The study is published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. […]
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WHO strongly recommends antiviral drug for patients with non-severe covid-19: A combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir is strongly recommended for patients at highest risk of hospital admission. WHO also makes a conditional recommendation for remdesivir in the same group of patients. Pfizer’s oral antiviral drug (a combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir tablets) is strongly recommended […]
In a paper published in The Journal of General Virology , researchers at The Pirbright Institute have confirmed that SARS-CoV-2 variants are able to gain entry to cells of more species than the original virus. The original SARS-CoV-2 wildtype virus, which emerged in China in 2019, is understood to have come from bats, but since […]
On World Health Day, 7th April 2022, Beth Cooper discusses the Importance of health literacy for the Hippocratic Post. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, personal health literacy is ‘the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for […]
People who are strongly attached to their pets were more likely to suffer mental health problems during the Covid-19 lockdown than those who are less attached, new research from Queen’s University Belfast has revealed. In January 2021, researchers from the School of Psychology at Queen’s surveyed 143 pet owners and 103 people who did not […]
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Unhealthy lifestyles are associated with a higher risk of severe COVID-19, but risks are highest in the most economically disadvantaged, according to a new study. The research – led by the University of Glasgow and published in BMC Infectious Diseases – looked at 343,850 people with an average age over 60 and found that the combined influence […]
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New research from the University of East Anglia reveals first-hand the lasting impact that lockdowns may have had on people’s mental and physical health. The UK’s first Covid lockdown was announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson exactly two years ago today. Just a few days later, researchers at UEA launched a major project to track […]
Women battling to recover from long COVID say their problems are not taken seriously… new survey finds: The devastating toll long COVID is taking on UK women’s physical and mental health is revealed in a new survey. The poll of 1,000 women with long COVID by the digital health platform Healthily found three quarters (76%) were suffering […]
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From respiratory research to long covid pathways: Dr Mark Faghy, Associate Professor in Respiratory Physiology at the University of Derby, is currently leading a pioneering international study to improve the lives of people suffering with the prolonged and life impairing impacts of long-Covid. Here he discusses the journey that led his team from research in occupational […]
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Echinacea: Herbal medicine as part of a winter health strategy: Dr Ross Walton, Immunologist and founder of clinical research company, A-IR reviews the building scientific research for the herb Echinacea and discusses how this easily accessible licensed herbal medicine may play a useful and valid role as part of a winter health strategy. Echinacea purpurea is […]
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