A saliva based test for COVID-19 providing results directly to patients in minutes is being developed as a result of a new collaboration between Luas Diagnostics and the University of Birmingham. Luas Diagnostics of Guildford, Surrey, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Birmingham to collaborate on the development of a rapid, […]
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An average of 3,399 patients per week missed out on urgent and routine referrals during lockdown, according to the Taskforce for Lung Health. New analysis by the Taskforce for Lung Health reveals that people in urgent need of support for respiratory problems saw a large drop in levels of care during the lockdown. Crucially, outcomes […]
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With drinking habits changed for thousands of people under lockdown, there are warnings of more excessive alcohol consumption when pubs reopen on July 4 Regular sustained alcohol consumption at home could now be joined by ‘binge drinking’ A Priory expert says habits entrenched during the height of the pandemic, and its aftermath, mean it “is […]
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Unite human, animal and environmental health to prevent the next pandemic according to newly published UN Report. COVID-19 is just one example of the rising trend of diseases – from Ebola to MERS to West Nile and Rift Valley fevers – caused by viruses that have jumped from animal hosts into the human population. A […]
Thursday 2 July, 12.30 to 1.00pm – The Royal Society of Medicine presents the next webinar in the COVID-19 Series: Impact on older population – Episode 27 Register to join Episode 27 ‘Impact on older population’ on Zoom here. In this episode of the COVID-19 Series, we will be looking at the impact of coronavirus on […]
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Urgent action needed on BAME workforce risk assessments: According to a new survey from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and the UK Black Pharmacists Association (UKBPA), more than two-thirds of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) pharmacists working in primary care and hospitals still have not yet had potentially lifesaving COVID-19 workplace risk assessments months […]
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Initial survey findings show the long road to recovery for people who have faced COVID at home without going into hospital. “We have been totally abandoned” people left struggling for weeks as they recover from COVID at home. New survey findings[1] show that people recovering from mild-moderate COVID[2] are struggling for weeks with symptoms, raising concerns that […]
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COVID-19 patients with extremely high levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their blood are more likely to deteriorate quickly and die, according to new research published today. The study, led by NIHR Research Professor Waljit Dhillo from Imperial College London and Consultant Endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, provides the first data to show […]
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In the UK and beyond, COVID-19 has been disproportionately deadly for people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. The excess death rate among non-whites in the UK during the pandemic- which accounts for the documented COVID related deaths minus expected deaths- is strikingly high. The BAME community in the United Kingdom accounts for […]
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The need for urgent cancer diagnosis and screening is becoming more acute by each passing day according to one of the UK’s top cancer experts. Professor Karol Sikora, chief medical officer at Rutherford Health and former head of the WHO’s cancer programme, is calling for a major effort to ramp up diagnosis after 25 charities […]
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