Category: Merck Pharmaceutical

Following widespread vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 of older adults and other highly vulnerable groups, some high…

How should we balance the need for speed with our duty towards care and rigour?…

In January 2021, global observers marvelled at India’s smooth passage through the first wave of…

It became known locally as “the massacre”: the day in August 2017 when the medical…

bmj;373/may12_4/n1191/FAF1faThis week the Menswear Archive, based at Westminster University, launched Undercover: From Necessity to Luxury,…

The editorial by Tang and colleagues provides food for thought about long term control of…

Primary care is under “immense pressure” and needs investment, clear national priorities, and new mechanisms…

The effectiveness of covid vaccines in reducing infections, hospital admissions, and deaths means that lockdown…

US public health experts are to meet this week to decide how to use the…

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the use of repurposed and adjuvant drugs in patients admitted to hospital with…

The NHS App is a safe and obvious choice for a vaccine passport, but IT…

The government, the NHS, and education bodies must provide better support for trainee doctors to…

Green means go?From some countries, yes. As lockdown restrictions ease, the government has announced a…

Global deaths from covid-19 are not 3.27 million, as official figures suggest, but 6.93 million…

Thousands of doctors feel under pressure from their employers to work extra shifts, often unpaid,…

Last week the Biden administration made the surprise announcement that the US would support a…

Covid rules in England requiring secondary school pupils to wear face coverings in classrooms could…

A parliamentary investigation into the actions of President Jair Bolsonaro and his former ministers is…

Management of SARS-CoV-2 infection continues to evolve. For patients requiring hospital treatment, mortality can be…

Where are the major trials for covid treatments?Dozens of large trials and hundreds of smaller…

As the world entered 2021, the covid-19 pandemic began a new phase, one dominated by…

Greenhalgh and colleagues’ useful guidance1 on the remote management of covid-19 using home pulse oximetry…

Greenhalgh and colleagues omit a serious limitation of two wavelength pulse oximetry.1 They mention “falsely…

Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine provide more than 95% protection against infection, hospital…

The vital relationships forged between national and local government, local public health teams, and the…

Female health and care staff in England have experienced significantly worsening physical and mental health…

bmj;373/may04_9/n1125/FAF1faThis picture showing a 92 year old man receiving his covid vaccine is among a…

Social determinants of health and certain health conditions are associated with testing and with testing…

A decision at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital in Dublin to give leftover…

The UK will roll out a covid-19 booster vaccine at the beginning of autumn in…

The covid-19 pandemic unleashed itself onto healthcare services at pace. Evidence evolved,12 opinions conflicted,3 and…

The world’s doctors have been at the forefront of the pandemic response. Already overstretched by…

Yes—Babak Javid, Dirk Bassler, Manuel B BryantThe likelihood of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is far greater…

Tanzania is facing a second wave of the covid-19 pandemic, yet Godbless Charles, a researcher…

Staff caring for patients with suspected or confirmed covid-19 may need higher grade protective masks—such…

AbstractObjectiveTo determine and compare the effects of drug prophylaxis on SARS-CoV-2 infection and covid-19.DesignLiving systematic…

Countries around the world have pledged to help India as the country continues to see…

The UK government has launched an Antivirals Taskforce to identify treatments to be used at…

The health secretary Matt Hancock has said he will examine a call to allow GPs…

What’s that?Essentially, it’s actively sniffing the same four scents every day for several months.1 The…

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) single dose covid-19…

Stokel-Walker raises an important concern that relaxation of data sharing restrictions during the covid-19 pandemic…

Infections of SARS-CoV-2 fell by 65% after a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech…

A review commissioned by the government that dismissed the notion that structural racism may have…

What does airborne transmission mean?Scientists distinguish between respiratory infectious diseases classed as “airborne”—which spread by…

Three weeks after restricting the AstraZeneca vaccine to people aged 55 and older, provinces across…

The UK government is facing legal action over a £102.6m (€119m; $143m) contract for FFP3…

bmj;373/apr20_10/n1016/FAF1faTeera Noisakran/Pacific Press/AlamyPeople queue at a temporary covid-19 testing site in Bangkok last Monday, two…

At the start of the covid-19 pandemic the UK government failed to reach up to…

“Covid-19 has provided a powerful lens on existing health problems,” said John Newton, director of…