Here are the NHS workers MailOnline understands to be among those who have died during the coronavirus pandemic so far: Dr Krishan Arora, general practitioner Dr Krishan Arora is the latest medical worker to die of Covid-19 bringing the total to 54 Dr Krishan Arora is a doctor who is believed to have died after … Read more
Private nurses have been threatened with the sack after refusing to treat coronavirus patients because they didn’t have enough PPE. Bosses at Nuffield Health’s Cheltenham Hospital warned they had ‘little choice’ but to take drastic action in an email. Medics across the UK have repeatedly said they are having to share equipment and use items … Read more
A Chinese nurse has died of cardiac arrest after fighting on the front line against the coronavirus epidemic in Hubei for 56 days. The 32-year-old medic, Zhang Jingjing, was pronounced dead yesterday, according to a statement from her hospital. She was due to go home after completing her 14-day quarantine. The nurse left behind her … Read more
As a critical shortage of ventilators looms, New York Governor Andre Cuomo revealed Friday that the state will begin repurposing BiPAP machines to sustain severely ill coronavirus patients. Last week, the state resorted to converting anesthesia machines to supplement its stockpile of an estimated 6,500 ventilators. Thursday, Cuomo said he wasn’t sure if BiPAP machines … Read more
Emergency rooms across the US are seeing less than half of usual number of heart attack patients as beds are filled by those infected with coronavirus. A Twitter poll by Angioplasty.org – a community of cardiologists – found that doctors reported a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction in hospital admissions for heart attacks. Nearly … Read more
Smart patch that measures sweat in athletes could be used on coronavirus patients to predict when cases become life-threatening A smart patch developed with Gatorade may help monitor coronavirus patients The patch measures sweat, but could look for biomarkers of the virus It could determine if the patient’s cytokine levels increase or if they have a … Read more
Patients needing dental care in England are being left in agony because they are unable to get emergency care amid the coronavirus pandemic. Dental practices have been closed to patients since March 20 in order to limit the spread of the life-threatening disease. And since then, potentially thousands of patients needing treatment have been left … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
New hope for stroke patients as scientists find way to restore mobility and touch using human stem cells to recreate nerve connections in damaged rat brain Experts transplanted reprogrammed stem cells into the cerebral cortex of rats They found that the new cells recreate lost nerve connections in the brain In six months, the procedure had … Read more
A Seattle ER doctor who had been tirelessly treating people dying of coronavirus became a patient of the infection himself. A Phoenix man went having from minor symptoms to relying on life support in a matter of days. Both men were under 60 and had been otherwise healthy before they found themselves life-threateningly ill with … Read more