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Global study gives snapshot of nurses’ mental health burden
A first-of-its-kind study provides an insight into the substantial mental health burden on nurses around the world, the research documenting the impact of three...
Brazilian couples study finds gene that boosts Covid-19 protection
A group of South American couples has helped to discover a biomarker of resistance to the Covid-19 virus, say scientists, after a study conducted...
CIA about-turn on Covid-19 origin
In a change of mindset, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has said it was more likely that a laboratory leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic...
Experts probe why Covid jab less effective in lupus patients – US study
Recent reseearch has provided new insights into why the mRNA vaccines developed to fight Covid-19 in 2021 are less effective in patients with autoimmune...
NHS doctor struck off for ‘outlandish‘ Covid jab theories
A senior NHS psychiatrist who questioned the safety of Covid vaccines, saying they were “at the heart of a giant deception”, has been struck off the...
UK doctors, nurses with long Covid sue NHS
Hundreds of British doctors, nurses and other health workers with long Covid – many of them now housebound or unable to work – are...
British Covid denier jailed for violent threats against health chief
An "obsessive" Covid denier in the UK who suggested using a bat to “whack” Professor Sir Chris Whitty – Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for...
The power of repurposing old drugs
As Covid-19 evolved from an outbreak to a pandemic, researchers, clinicians, governments, and the public were all desperately seeking solutions – and from this,...
Covid jabs linked to temporary facial palsy – South Korean study
A large-scale study in South Korea has found a small but notable increase in facial palsy cases within 28 days of Covid-19 vaccination, highlighting...
Risk of heart attacks, deaths, for three years after Covid – US study
A large study has suggested that Covid-19 could be a powerful risk factor for heart attacks and strokes for as long as three years...
Impact of severe Covid on brain’s ‘control centre’ – UK study
British researchers have suggested that severe Covid infections may drive inflammation in the brain’s “control centre”, causing damage that could explain the long-term breathlessness,...
The cost of lockdown on children’s eyesight – Chinese study
One in every three children is now short-sighted as a result of Covid lockdowns, suggest researchers, who found not only that myopia tripled between...
US scientists find SARS-CoV-2 virus resistance to antiviral drugs
Two recent studies have found that the virus that causes Covid-19 is becoming resistant to two drugs that are used to treat patients with...
New research bolsters Covid link to Wuhan market animals
An international team of scientists has published a peer-reviewed paper saying genetic evidence indicates the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated with a natural spillover...
Researchers uncover how paediatric MIS-C is linked to Covid
Scientists have finally unravelled one of the enduring mysteries of the pandemic – and what caused some children to develop a severe inflammatory syndrome...
US doctors lose licences over Covid misinformation
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has revoked the board certification of two physicians involved in the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance...
Common lab tests unable to diagnose long Covid – US study
Almost four and a half years after the pandemic began, one of the biggest challenges still facing physicians is understanding, diagnosing and treating long...
Trust in US doctors plunged in pandemic – and still low, finds survey
A recent survey of more than 400 000 American adults found that during the pandemic, trust in physicians and hospitals decreased sharply, and higher...
European experts identify genes which increase severe Covid risk
Whether or not a person becomes seriously ill with Covid-19 depends, among other things, on genetic factors, and European researchers recently not only confirmed...
Covid may trigger brain changes, even dementia – US review
While Covid-19 no longer poses the urgent public-health threat it once did, recent research points to a good reason to keep the virus in...
First trimester Covid exposure, jab, not tied to birth defects risk
Neither Covid-19 infection nor vaccination during the first trimester of pregnancy is associated with increased risk of major birth defects, found a study of...
Lockdowns slashed wheezing in generation of babies – Italian study
The Covid-19 pandemic had an upside for lockdown babies: substantially less wheezing and bronchiolitis, according to an Italian retrospective cohort study, with the researchers...
Antibiotics over-used in ICU before and during Covid – SA study
Antibiotics are critical in the treatment, management and prevention of infections, but inappropriate and excessive use has fuelled the emergence of antibiotic resistance –...
Nasal immune cells tied to Covid evasion – first human SARS study
Scientists have discovered differences in the immune response that could explain why some people seem to escape Covid infection, and which might, they say,...
Pfizer sued by Kansas over Covid vaccine 'misrepresentation'
The US state of Kansas has filed a lawsuit against Pfizer, accusing it of misrepresenting the safety of its Covid-19 vaccine and violating the state’s...
‘The problem with the National Academies’ long Covid report’: US expert
Overly broad criteria for long Covid won’t help patients in the long run, argues Dr Leonard Jason in Medpage Today, after the US National...
Two-in-one flu/Covid jab passes trial with flying colours
Moderna says its combined flu and Covid vaccine, which targets the two diseases in a single shot, has passed a vital part of final-stage...
New long Covid definition proposed by US National Academies
America’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has proposed a new definition of long Covid – one requiring no lab confirmation or...
Covid link to aggressive rare cancers, suggest scientists
Increasingly, scientists are suggesting that the proliferation of aggressive cancers – including previously very rare forms of the disease – since the Covid-19 pandemic...
Wrong to label woman ‘anti-vaxxer’ for refusing Covid jab, rules UK court
A Scottish judge has ruled that the NHS must compensate an ultrasound technician after she was called an “anti-vaxxer” for refusing the Covid-19 shot...
SA children’s suffering in poor areas worse during pandemic
Certain categories of South African children were profoundly affected during the pandemic, research has shown, with six out of 10 being exposed to depressed...
US National Academies' report underscores severity of long Covid
One of America’s premier medical advisory organisations has weighed in on long Covid with a 265-page report that recognises the seriousness and persistence of...
Fauci feels the heat at hearing over Covid
Former director of the UN National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr Anthony Fauci testified this week at a sub-committee House hearing about...
Global pandemic treaty talks grind to a halt
Global deliberations on an international treaty that could unite the world in a strategy against another pandemic have been unsuccessful, with countries failing to...
Scientists uncover cause of severe Covid lung disease
A recent study has shed light on the mystery of why, in some severe Covid-19 cases, the lungs undergo extreme damage, resulting in various...
Increase in Covid-19 activity abroad
A rise in Covid infections has been reported both in Singapore and in the United Kingdom, authorities have said.
Singapore’s Health Ministry said cases were...
Covid wiped out decade of life expectancy progress
The recently released World Health Statistics 2024 report urges countries to redouble their efforts towards health-related sustainable development goals by 2030, as the pandemic...
South African among anti-vaxxers at African conference
The World Health Organisation came under fire as zealous right-wing African members of Parliament, including some of the continent’s most vociferous anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQI...
More of Big Pharma's Covid vaccine bully tactics laid bare
With the release of a second tranche of information showing how South Africa was bullied into paying outrageously high prices for its Covid-19 vaccines,...
Genetics tied to Covid jab blood clots, say scientists
An autoimmune reaction, to which some people are predisposed, was responsible for the rare but deadly blood clots associated with the Johnson & Johnson...