The unforeseen crisis brought on by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has created a global surge in demand for diagnostic and monitoring tests and a subsequent worldwide shortage in...Coronavirus
Spotlight reports that doctors at two of the Western Cape’s most impacted COVID-19 hospitals say they have seen positive outcomes from using high-flow nasal oxygen...Coronavirus
Children with COVID-19 generally experience a mild disease and fatalities are very rare, according to a study of 582 patients from across Europe. The study, which...
June 10th, 2020The majority test for the novel coronavirus — a back of nose or throat swab using the RT-PCR laboratory procedure for genetic analysis — may produce 1 in 5 false...
May 27th, 2020
As the coronavirus death toll has risen around the world, it has created an unprecedented challenge for the healthcare workers, forensics experts, and funeral directors...
May 27th, 2020
“Immunity passports” – certificates issued to people who have had COVID-19 and are presumed immune to the disease – would cause more problems than they solve,...
April 15th, 2020
The unwillingness of the authors of a recent study in Nature Medicine, to minimise moral or socio-political conclusions — in this case between Chinese wet markets and...
South Africa’s biggest medical scheme administrators, Discovery Health and Medscheme, have softened their stance on virtual consultations with psychologists and...Coronavirus
Scientists at the University of Alberta have shown that the drug remdesivir is highly effective in stopping the replication mechanism of the coronavirus that causes...Coronavirus Watch
The Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute's Dr Kylie Wagstaff, who led the study, said the scientists showed that the drug, Ivermectin, stopped the SARS-CoV-2 virus...
