Cera, one of the UK’s largest home care providers, has today released data highlighting the stark lack of vaccinations among older people requiring care at home – with only 1% of the 10,000 users Cera provide home care for in the UK having received the vaccine to date. The firm, which provides 25,000 in-home care […]
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Naltrexone use decreases the risk of hospitalization in persons with alcohol use disorder: Naltrexone, used either alone or together with disulfiram or acamprosate, is associated with a decreased risk of hospitalization due to alcohol use disorder (AUD) when compared with non-use of AUD drugs, a new register-based study shows. The same associations were noticed for hospitalization […]
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Research establishes antibiotic potential for cannabis molecule: Synthetic cannabidiol, better known as CBD, has been shown for the first time to kill the bacteria responsible for gonorrhoea, meningitis and legionnaires disease. The research collaboration between The University of Queensland and Botanix Pharmaceuticals Limited could lead to the first new class of antibiotics for resistant bacteria in 60 years. The […]
The UK’s leading medical equipment testing company has issued a new warning on the use of fridges to store the new Oxford Astra-Zeneca vaccine. Unless fridges are correctly calibrated and serviced, GP surgeries, pharmacies and other vaccine providers run the risk of damaging the effectiveness of the vaccine, which must be stored between 2-8 degrees […]
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You are probably sick of quarantine and wish life would go back to the way it was before the Covid-19 Pandemic spread across the globe. Now all you can do is hope that this Pandemic ends soon, but how could that happen? In today’s video we’re going to look back at previous pandemics in history […]
New study concludes continuous wireless monitoring of a mother’s temperature during labour promises to be more effective than manual measurements for indicating the risk of early onset sepsis in newborn babies. A new study has concluded that the use of a continuous wireless patient monitoring platform which monitors a mother’s temperature during labour could aid […]
New model for predicting course of COVID-19 could relieve pressure on the healthcare system: MedUni Vienna, Klinik Favoriten, Medical University of Innsbruck, Johannes Kepler University Linz and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm joined forces to develop a mathematical model to reliably identify COVID-19 patients who are likely to have a more favourable disease course. This […]
A quarter of UK adults cut down on drinking in January 2020. More than a quarter of UK drinkers (27%) reduced, or completely stopped, drinking in January, reveals research independent alcohol charity, Drinkaware. The study found almost three quarters (72%) of those people who said they drank less or stopped drinking in January 2020, planned […]
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Surveillance of antimicrobial resistant diseases could be more challenging outside of the European Union: In a new report from the Microbiology Society, experts from around the UK explain the desperate need for long-term and ambitious funding for surveillance and research into antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The next pandemic is likely to be associated with antimicrobial resistance, […]
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Plagues, neurology, and rehabilitation: The history of polio epidemics and how COVID-19 will affect approaches to rehabilitation: Date and time: Tue 5 Jan 2021 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm, online webinar. Infections affect the nervous system in very different ways giving neuroscience a constant stream of new problems to solve. Robin Howard, Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology […]
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