Posing happily for photographs, these two young women look to be the picture of health. But tragically, Latifah King, 27, and Kelly Smith, 31, both died of cancer after delays in treatment due to Covid lockdowns. Young mother Miss Smith had her chemotherapy for bowel cancer paused for three months in the first lockdown. Meanwhile, … Read more
Patients and MPs have urged Boris Johnson to declare ‘long Covid’ an ‘occupational disease’ and pay compensation to frontline staff who say they cannot return to work because they have sore feet, weak legs and smell ‘fake’ odours months after being infected with coronavirus. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus warned the disease – … Read more
Hospitals in Texas were being evacuated after patients were left without water or power as the winter storm continues to leave the power grid crippled – and another storm was set to roll through. St. David’s South Austin Medical Center and Dell Children’s Medical Center, both in Austin, Texas, are transferring patients to other hospitals, … Read more
NHS waiting lists could hit a record ten million by April – with one in six people in England needing treatment, a report warns. Researchers claim that the pandemic turned the NHS into the ‘National Covid Service’, with six million fewer referrals in 2020 than 2019. Now health workers are braced for a surge from … Read more
Covid-19 could cause potentially dangerous ‘nodules’ on patients’ EYEBALLS due to inflammation triggered by the virus, scientists warn French doctors conducted MRI scans on 129 severely ill Covid-19 patients They found evidence of eye nodules in nine of these hospitalised individuals What causes them and their long-term impact on health is currently unknown By Joe Pinkstone For … Read more
France said today that patients who have already had Covid-19 should only get one dose of a vaccine, making it the first country to adopt such a strategy and potentially freeing up millions of doses amid an EU-wide struggle for jab supplies. Health officials said a single dose would be enough to ‘remind’ the body … Read more
The number of patients waiting more than a year for routine operations on the NHS has hit its highest level since April 2008, official figures show. Almost 225,000 people had been on the spiralling lists for more than 52 weeks by December, according to the latest figures from NHS England, a 12-year high. For comparison, … Read more
A drug that could improve blood flow in the lungs of Covid patients will be trialled at NHS hospitals in Reading, Oxford and Cardiff to see if it can boost survival odds. Doctors led by Oxford University scientists will test how effective almitrine bismesylate, a lung stimulant, is at treating seriously ill Covid patients. The … Read more
Shielding alert forgot 375,000 vulnerable patients who were not warned to shield from Covid-19 because records were out of date, report claims National Audit Office said hospital records for shielding were weeks out of date Making system from scratch led to people waiting weeks for food and medicines Revealed 126,000 people were contacted in error … Read more
Coronavirus patients treated with a experimental hepatitis drug were FOUR times more likely to have cleared the infection within seven days, study finds Peginterferon-lambda is a man-made form of a naturally occurring protein that calls for immune cells to attack a virus and is mainly used to treat hepatitis Receptors for the drug are found … Read more