January 13th, 2021‘Long COVID’ – a version of COVID-19 that results in continued illness of a significant number of people for many months after the initial disease has waned –...
Health-care workers (HCWs) are at high risk of developing COVID-19, and may themselves contribute to transmission. To evaluate these risks, we enrolled 200...Coronavirus
In the largest study to date on the risk factors associated with COVID-19, UK researchers have found that people of Asian and Black ethnic backgrounds are at a higher...
April 22nd, 2020
The Portuguese government has attributed the country’s low coronavirus caseload to a swift, flexible “worst-case scenario” response and to the early closure of...
A novel clinical trial developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine was launched to address one of the most important debates during the...
April 1st, 2020
Debate is raging over the Imperial College London study that predicted up to half a million COVID-19 deaths and sparked the UK lockdown, with criticisms that it was...
One in six women who experience an early miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder nine months later, says a New Scientist...Medico-Legal
Doctors in the UK who saw but did not report babies and mothers receiving poor care during the National Health Service's worst maternity scandal could be suspended or...
November 13th, 2019
A UK study suggested that the "weekend effect" of increased hospital mortality was driven by junior doctors admitting a lower proportion of relatively healthy patients...
SA pharma Aspen's admitted price collusion with two other pharams - for which it must pay the UK's National Health Service £8m (R149m) - enabled it to hike the price...
