How can we manage the inevitable rise of common childhood illnesses as kids go back to school? Dr Punam Krishan, GP gives advice on how we can manage sickness in in the “new normal” post lockdown world. “Nobody anticipated a pandemic and having never lived through one before, it has been a steep learning curve […]
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Results of the COLCORONA study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine – Colchicine could be considered as a treatment for non-hospitalized patients diagnosed with COVID-19 by PCR test and at risk of complications: The Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) announces that the COLCORONA study results are published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. The article, which is […]
Accurate student COVID-19 testing: University of Cambridge and Excalibur Healthcare Services form partnership to deliver comprehensive and highly accurate student COVID-19 testing. Excalibur Healthcare Services Limited (“Excalibur”) announces that the University of Cambridge has appointed Excalibur as its principal provider of PCR analysis for COVID-19 samples from students. This partnership will maintain a comprehensive and […]
A tiny new silicon-based lab-on-chip test could pave the way for cheap handheld infectious disease testing. The chip, developed at Imperial College London and known as TriSilix, is a ‘micro laboratory’ which performs a miniature version of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on the spot. PCR is the gold-standard test for detecting viruses and bacteria […]
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