Category: Infectious diseases, Respiratory medicine

The US has recorded the first person with H5N1 flu to have respiratory symptoms, in…

More people with acute respiratory infections could be treated outside hospitals in respiratory hubs or…

I’m writing this nine weeks after the UK’s first reported death from coronavirus. For me,…

The UK’s decision to stop community testing and contact tracing for covid-19 in early March…

Back in early March, before the covid-19 pandemic had taken hold in the UK and…

An antibody blood test for covid-19, which the manufacturer Abbott claims is 99% accurate, has…

Lawyers for an NHS doctor are threatening legal action over the government’s failure to release…

The Scottish government has recommended that the public wear face coverings when in enclosed public…

A leading statistician has criticised the UK government’s daily reporting of covid-19 swab test results,…

An NHS hospital trust has been forced to withdraw guidance telling doctors that they need…

The BMA has written to the chancellor of the exchequer calling for all NHS workers…

Two thirds of healthcare workers who have died from covid-19 were from an ethnic minority…

Like many people around the world just now, those living in the São Paulo neighbourhood…

The former head of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics has been appointed to lead…

NHS staff may not have enough protective gowns this weekend because of a severe shortage…

European Union officials have unveiled their “roadmap” to phase out the ongoing coronavirus containment measures.1…

The Japanese government has announced that it will extend the state of emergency to the…

President Donald Trump has announced that the US has officially halted its funding to the…

The World Health Organization and South Korea are investigating how several covid-19 patients who were…

Over half of surgeons and trainees in the UK have experienced shortages of personal protective…

In the United States, black people are being admitted to hospital and dying in disproportionate…

A wellbeing area for staff and volunteers at the NHS Nightingale Hospital in east London…

Doctors and nurses working at the new emergency Nightingale Hospital in east London will be…

Covid-19 is no respecter of individual people, as shown by the rapid domino effect of…

Donald Trump has warned that the US could stop funding the World Health Organization, as…

As the covid-19 pandemic continues to grow in severity, one of the most closely watched…

Over 100 NHS hospitals have had a combined £13.4bn (€15.25bn; $16.48bn) in historical debts written…

NHS hospitals have been told to remove the 15% cap on the proportion of tests…

The overall death rate from covid-19 has been estimated at 0.66%, rising sharply to 7.8%…

As many as 25 000 people a day will be tested for covid-19 in NHS…

United StatesThe United States declared a national emergency on 13 March as covid-19 spread to…

The US president, Donald Trump, made secret overtures to the German company CureVac—one of the…

A UK based charity that provides healthcare to residents at Europe’s largest refugee camp has…

A junior doctor has called on her colleagues to gather supplies that will help healthcare…

“Patient 1” can breathe on his own after more than two weeks in intensive care…

Medical conferences around the world have been cancelled because of fears about covid-19 after a…

Covid-19 has officially been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, as its director…

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, toured the city of Wuhan on 10 March, appearing to claim…

Nearly 90 million face masks are required every month to protect health staff as they…

Confirmed cases of covid-19 in Italy leapt by 45% to reach 322 on 25 February,…

Here’s one example of the ideas floating around in China. Radio Free Asia reported that…

Coronaviruses have been around for many years and were first discovered in the 1960s. They…

Well before dusk on Friday 24 January, the lake was empty of ice skaters. Quiet…

Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) should be on “everybody’s agenda,” says Seth Berkley, chief executive officer of…

The World Health Organization has declared the current novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak to be a…

As the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV) outbreak rapidly expands across the border in mainland China, healthcare…