Category: Infectious diseases

Doctors should reassure parents and carers of children who are immunocompromised that immunosuppression does not…

A research programme to determine the prevalence of covid-19 in the community and the proportion…

NHS England has set out details of which regular services should be prioritised for resumption…

Doctors would not be held accountable if they decided not to see a patient because…

The World Health Organization has announced that 83 potential covid-19 candidate vaccines are being assessed…

Deaths from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa could return to levels last seen 20 years ago…

The government is to reintroduce contact tracing of people who have had symptoms of covid-19,…

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has fired his popular health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, after weeks…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) worst ever Ebola outbreak is back on, at…

What has the CDC recommended?People should wear cloth face coverings in public places where social…

Medical leaders have said it is “unacceptable” for advance care plans—with or without a completed…

Paracetamol should be used in preference to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for managing fever in patients…

Doctors could be forced to withdraw lifesaving treatment from stable or improving patients to prioritise…

The Department of Health and Social Care for England has relaxed the rules on sharing…

New evidence has emerged from China indicating that the large majority of coronavirus infections do…

The BMA has warned that doctors are still being placed at “considerable risk” by shortages…

President Donald Trump has extended physical distancing guidelines for the US to 30 April, reversing…

At practice level, primary care has altered dramatically in the past few weeks, with staff—clinical…

Healthcare staff in the West Midlands have been told not to start chest compressions or…

Singlehanded GPs are worried about what will happen to their practice patients if they themselves…

A group of diabetes doctors and other clinicians has set up a social media account…

The UK is at last in near lockdown. While further measures may be needed, the…

As covid-19 continues its exponential growth in parts of the United States, we have heard…

The Indian government has announced a countrywide lockdown for three weeks starting at midnight on…

Experts have criticised an unpublished modelling study released to the media on Tuesday 24 March…

A million and a half people in England who are at very high risk of…

Medical students could soon be employed in various roles in the NHS, depending on their…

I haven’t been fit tested for the correct masks (FFP3)? Can I be asked to…

A&E departments lack proper isolation facilities, senior medic warnsThe vast majority of NHS emergency departments…

Healthcare staff on leave and those who have retired could be called “back to duty,”…

A senior employee of the US Department of Health and Human Services has filed a…

bmj;368/feb26_1/m742/FAF1faClaire Jeantet/Fabrice CatériniAdamu, 14, is pictured during his initial screening session at Sokoto Noma Hospital…

The novel coronavirus that has so far spread from China to 26 countries around the…

The UK government has declared that the incidence or transmission of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV…

The demand for personal protective equipment such as masks and respirators is 100 times the…

The UK government must implement a new national strategy for tackling sexually transmitted infections (STIs)…

Uncertainty over the severity spectrum of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and whether people with mild…

Since reports of a mysterious pneumonia-like condition began circulating in December, the public health world…

More than 200 confirmed cases of infection with the novel coronavirus have emerged in China,…

More than 6000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo died in 2019 in…