Scared — too shocked to cry. That’s how mother-of-three Catherine Wilcockson felt as she put the phone down after learning that her next chemotherapy session due next week had been cancelled – yet another victim of the Covid-19 outbreak as it takes its toll on the NHS and its resources. School kitchen assistant Catherine, 37, … Read more
A new study from one of the nation’s top hospitals is giving health experts an inside look into what the novel coronavirus does to the lungs. Dr Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, director of pulmonary pathology at the Cleveland Clinic, reported the results of two autopsies, including one of a 77-year-old Oklahoma man who died from the virus. … Read more
What we think of as ‘valuable’ is changing amid coronavirus and firms will be judged on how they behaved, says former BoE governor Mark Carney He said companies would be judged by ‘what they did during the war’ This meant how they treated employees, suppliers and customers Writing in The Economist, he said the pandemic … Read more
Abbott reveals it has made a new coronavirus antibody test which ‘could screen 20 million by June’ By Reuters and Mary Kekatos Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.com Published: 21:33 BST, 15 April 2020 | Updated: 02:52 BST, 16 April 2020 Abbott Laboratories announced it has launched its third coronavirus test, this time a blood test … Read more
A new infographic shows how Santa Clara County lowered its rate of flu-like illnesses faster than New York County by enacting shelter-in-place orders sooner during the coronavirus outbreak. It was created by Kinsa Health, a San Francisco-based medical technology company that has been tracking daily fever readings using data from ‘smart thermometers’ connected to the … Read more
Whisper it… but could it be we have gone too far? That is the alarming question my colleagues and I are beginning to ask, firstly of ourselves and then, cautiously, of each other. In our understandable but frenzied drive to ‘Save the NHS’ from the scourge of coronavirus, are we inflicting long-term damage on millions … Read more
A pair of scientists believe that up to 270,000 residents of California have the novel coronavirus, 10 times more cases than have been reported. The researchers estimate that up to 4.8 percent of the total US population was infected with the virus by April 6 – 40 times the number of confirmed cases. They also … Read more
Taking aspirin just once a week can cut the risk of getting several types of cancer, scientists claim Regular use of drug reduces risk of getting stomach and oesophagus cancers It also cuts the chances of bowel cancer by 27 per cent, according to 45 studies Drug is known to lower heart attack and stroke … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed highly unusual guidance from its website informing doctors on how to prescribe the anti-malaria drugs recommended by President Donald Trump to treat coronavirus. The medications, chloroquine and its analog hydroxychlorquine, are also used to threat arthritis and the autoimmune disorder lupus. Initially, the CDC webpage had … Read more
Dr Matthew Jackson is a lecturer in Sport and Health Science at Liverpool Hope University Watch your ‘load’ Dr Jackson said: ‘There’s a well established general rule that you shouldn’t increase your training load by more than 10 per cent each week. That could be in terms of miles run, or the number of minutes … Read more