Covid-19: Recognise long covid as occupational disease and compensate frontline workers, say MPs
MPs have stepped up pressure on ministers to recognise “long covid” as an occupational disease…
Month: February 2021
Prophylactic anticoagulation for patients in hospital with covid-19
Most people with covid-19 have mild disease, but after 5-10 days an important minority develop…
NHS reforms: politicians will be back in the driving seat
Given its strapline—“Integration and Innovation”—it is no surprise that the Department of Health and Social…
Jeremy Farrar: Make vaccine available to other countries as soon as our most vulnerable people have received it
“Once the UK has vaccinated our most vulnerable communities and healthcare workers we should make…
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Does self-management of vaginal pessaries improve care for women with pelvic organ prolapse?
What you need to knowSelf-management of vaginal pessary for pelvic organ prolapse may enable patient…
Opinion: Eliminating buprenorphine training for doctors won’t solve the overdose epidemic
Before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was making some headway in fighting the drug…
Opinion: The effect of Covid-19 vaccines will — finally — be tested in pregnant people like me
The arrival of Covid-19 vaccines at the hospital where I work felt like a glimmer…
To get ahead of variants, Covid-19 drug makers use evolutionary biology as a guide
Before becoming a Covid-19 drug, each candidate was just a tiny fragment of someone’s immune…
Doctors, researchers push academia’s ivory tower to start rewarding diversity work in promotion decisions
Universities and academic hospitals have vowed to diversify their ranks after a year of reckoning…
A new danger from your iPhone?
The iPhone 12’s MagSafe feature may be not-so-safe if you have a pacemaker. Read Original…
Prenatal yoga: Yoga studios in Singapore to check out – AsiaOne
Prenatal yoga: Yoga studios in Singapore to check out AsiaOne Read Original Article: Prenatal yoga: Yoga…
Podcast: Escape from Warsaw’s Ghetto: Memories of a Child Witness
When Halina Wolloh was four, her grandfather hid her from the Nazi regime – behind…
Podcast – UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – COVID and despair in Syria’s camps
This week we cover the top stories from across the UN, including: an update on…
News in Brief 18 February 2021
‘Very high’ risk of Guinea’s Ebola outbreak spreading: WHO Call to end instrumentalization of aid for…
Is soda bad for you? Effects on the body and alternatives – Medical News Today
Is soda bad for you? Effects on the body and alternatives Medical News Today Read Original…
Listen: Gene therapy’s safety scare, biotech’s brashest VCs, & the FDA’s uncertain future
How safe is gene therapy? Is there anything “unique” about venture capital? And who’s going…
WHO seeks $1.96 billion for 2021 Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Response
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking nearly $2 million to fund its 2021 Strategic…
Touchdown! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover safely lands on Red Planet
The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars…
STAT+: Federal judge nixes hospitals’ attempt to force HHS 340B crackdown
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Thursday that it’s too early for hospitals to challenge…
Loss of autonomy in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir threatens minorities’ rights – UN independent experts
India’s decision to end autonomy in Jammu and Kashmir and restrict the participation of minorities…
First Person: ‘The world is in your hands and begins at your door’.
British celebrity gardener Monty Don, a UN advocate for plant health, is raising awareness of…
“Put Syrians first…finally”, UN rights investigators urge after decade of conflict
Along with an end to the “instrumentalization” of humanitarian aid, victims of Syria’s decade-long civil…
Real-time dialogue with a dreaming person is possible
Dreams take us to what feels like a different reality. They also happen while we’re…
Increasingly fragmented tiger populations may require ‘genetic rescue’
A new study reveals the lasting genetic impacts of increased isolation among different tiger subpopulations….
New route to forming complex crystals
When materials reach extremely small size scales, strange things begin to happen. One of those…
Waste into wealth: Harvesting useful products from microbial growth
Researchers have been exploring how bacteria can convert organic waste into useful products. They describe…
New crystalline form of ice
Three years ago, chemists found evidence for the existence of a new variety of ice….
The ACA Marketplace Is Open Again for Insurance Sign-Ups. Here’s What You Need to Know.
For people who’ve been without health insurance during the pandemic, relief is in sight. Read…
Stop criminalizing civil society, UN rights experts urge Venezuelan authorities
United Nations independent human rights experts called on Thursday for the authorities in Venezuela to stop…
Pharmalittle: Pfizer vaccine seems less potent against Covid-19 variant in lab test; WTO urges end to vaccine export restrictions
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just dandy, despite another blanket…
Covid-19: Infections in England fall by two thirds since January
A “strong decline” has been seen in the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in England among the…
Virtual Event: Facing the crisis of drug-resistant germs
Editor’s note: A livestream of this event will be posted below at 1 p.m. ET. …
Pharma’s ambitious new antibiotic venture hires a CEO to fix a ‘broken’ pipeline
Several months after a splashy announcement, an ambitious pharmaceutical industry venture to tackle antibiotic resistance…
Covid-19: Sweden vows greater protection for academics as researcher quits after aggressive social media attack
The Swedish government has said that it will strengthen laws on academic freedom after a…
Anne Longfield: Children must be at the heart of “building back better”
“It’s impossible to overstate how damaging the past year has been for many children—particularly those…
US policy requires immediate release of records to patients
On 5 April a new federal rule will require US healthcare providers to give patients…
Atopic dermatitis in children: when topical steroid treatment “does not work”
What you need to knowIf topical corticosteroids for atopic dermatitis do not seem to work,…
NHS reorganisation: We don’t need a big bang
“What do you call a government that embarks on the biggest upheaval of the NHS…
Opinion: Caregivers are missing from the long Covid conversation
Media reports describe the inarguable, if inconvenient, circumstances that follow us into the second year…
Opinion: Dental therapists: a solution for better access to dental care
Difficulty getting dental care is the norm in much of the United States, especially in…
STAT+: Covid crushed in-person pharma sales. Tech is pitching itself as a solution
The pandemic grounded tens of thousands of pharmaceutical reps who usually roam the country urging…
STAT+: States still can’t import drugs from Canada. Now, many are seeking to import Canadian prices
WASHINGTON — For years, former President Trump threatened to use foreign prices as a cap…
Wearable technology: covid-19 and the rise of remote clinical monitoring
In the age of covid-19, digital devices worn by patients are increasingly being piloted to…
Covid-19: How the UK vaccine rollout delivered success, so far
It looks like a world beating performance—the United Kingdom has administered more covid-19 vaccine first…
An irregular ulcer in the rectum
A man in his 50s was referred to hospital by his general practitioner with a…
Aneurysm analysis . . . and other stories
Intracranial aneurysmsA French study collected data on 2500 patients with intracranial aneurysms. The researchers then…
How the NFL and CDC teamed up to fight Covid-19
The score isn’t final yet, but so far in the contest between COVID-19 and professional…
U.S. life expectancy fell by a year in the first half of 2020, CDC report finds
As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, life expectancy in the United States dropped one full…
Never-before-seen antibody binding, informing liver cancer, antibody design
In structural biology, some molecules are so unusual they can only be captured with a…
3D microscopy clarifies understanding of body’s immune response to obesity
Researchers who focus on fat know that some adipose tissue is more prone to inflammation-related…