Friday, 29 March, 2024
HomeInternational

International

US claimed to have bought most stocks of COVID-19 drugs

The US has bought up virtually all the stocks for the next three months of one of the two drugs proven to work against...

Warning that thousands in UK may die early from bowel cancer

A dramatic rise in bowel cancer cases is set to sweep in the UK in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, The Guardian report...

COVID-19 sufferers' lungs may be damaged 'beyond recognition'

COVID-19 can leave the lungs of people who died from the disease completely unrecognisable, reports The Guardian. It created such massive damage in those...

Leaked WHO files show China delayed releasing important COVID-19 info

China delayed releasing important coronavirus information during the early days of the outbreak, according to leaked World Health Organisation (WHO) documents and recordings of...

France, Italy and Belgium stop hydroxychloroquine for patients; WHO suspends studies

France, Italy and Belgium have halted the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat patients suffering from COVID-19, while the World Health Organisation has suspended the...

Gates Foundation shifts 'total attention' from HIV, malaria and polio to COVID-19

Bill Gates says his foundation, the world’s wealthiest charity, will give its “total attention” to the COVID-19 pandemic – even at the risk that...

More cases of rare inflammatory syndrome reported in children

Doctors around the world have reported more cases of a rare but potentially lethal inflammatory syndrome in children that appears to be linked to...

Roche receives FDA emergency use approval for its COVID-19 antibody test

Swiss drug maker Roche has received emergency use approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an antibody test to help determine...

Analysis suggests that UK's pandemic death toll is twice the official COVID-19 number

The novel coronavirus outbreak has caused as many as 41,000 deaths in the UK, according to a Financial Times analysis of statistics office data....

BMA and RCA will defend doctors refusing to treat patients if PPE inadequate

The British Medical Association and the Royal College of Anaesthetists are promising to "robustly" support members who refuse treat patients "if personal protection equipment...

NHS reduces blood saturation targets to conserve oxygen supplies

Oxygen is being rationed to prevent hospitals running out due to the high demand from coronavirus patients. The Daily Telegraph reports that National Health...

100s more cases emerge in UK's baby deaths scandal

Hundreds more cases of baby deaths, stillbirths and brain damage raising “very serious” concerns have been uncovered in a scandal that now threatens to...

Furore over Trump's withdrawal of WHO funding

Donald Trump has been condemned for putting countless lives at risk when he announced the US is freezing payments to the World Health Organisation...

China's 6-day delay in warning set the stage for the COVID-19 pandemic

In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan...

GSK and Sanofi plan on joint COVID-19 vaccine ready for testing this year

Two of the world’s largest vaccine firms have teamed up to develop a coronavirus treatment that can be supplied to billions of people around...

UK death rate 'could be the worst in Europe', with 66,000 deaths by August

World-leading disease data analysts have projected that the UK will become the country worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic in Europe, accounting for more...

Private labs take up the slack as state labs struggle to process COVID-19 tests

South Africa’s private health laboratories are taking most of the strain testing for COVID-19 disease, as state laboratories lag, having processed only one-in-six of...

UK's final-year medical students graduate early to join COVID-19 frontline

Final-year medical students across the UK are joining the frontline of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic after being graduated early by their universities,...

Japanese flu drug 'clearly effective' in treating some COVID19, says China

Medical authorities in China have said a drug used in Japan to treat new strains of influenza appeared to be effective in coronavirus patients,...

UK health minister tests positive for COVID-19

A UK Health minister Nadine Dorries has become the first MP to be diagnosed with coronavirus, prompting concerns about the potential spread of the...

Gilead ramps up production of experimental coronavirus drug

A US biotech firm has ramped up production of an experimental drug that has become a focal point for hopes of an effective treatment...

UK nurses to perform surgical procedures after 2-year training

Nurses in the UK will be trained to perform surgical procedures under a radical drive by the National Health Service (NHS) to slash waiting...

Biotech wants emergency FDA approval for coronavirus test

Biotechnology company Novacyt has applied for emergency approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as it races to roll out a product...

NHS England CEO says Netflix's Goop Lab series 'a health risk'

Gwyneth Paltrow's new Netflix series poses a "considerable health risk" to the public, BBC News reports that NHS England CEO Simon Stevens has said....

NICD issues guidelines on detection and containment of coronavirus

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has announced that together with the Health Department it has developed and distributed clinical guidelines and case...

New NHS screening test 'has potential to eliminate cervical cancer completely'

Hundreds of lives will be spared every year in England thanks to a more sensitive cervical screening test rolled out as part of the...

NHS pioneers twice-a-year injection to cut cholesterol

A twice-a-year injection that reduces bad cholesterol to protect the heart is to be pioneered by the National Health Service (NHS) in England, reports...

OECD report paints bleak picture of UK's doctors shortages and workloads

After Poland, the UK has the second lowest number of doctors in leading European nations relative to its population, despite three-times higher salaries. The...

UK's strict liquid diet for type 2 diabetes patients

The Standard reports that the UK's National Health Service (NHS) Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP) will see up to 5,000 patients prescribed a liquid...

European body withdraws support for guidelines on stents vs surgery

Europe's professional body for heart surgeons has withdrawn support for clinical guidelines on how to treat left main coronary artery disease, a major form...

Biogen's Alzheimer's drug gets cautiously optimistic review

Some of the US’s top neuroscientists have responded with cautious optimism to a detailed presentation from pharmaceutical maker Biogen about an experimental drug that...

Conduct of French body donation centre under investigation

A human body donation centre at a university in Paris has temporarily closed while a government investigation into its conduct is carried out, reports...

FDA backs fish-oil derived drug as add-on therapy for CVD

A panel of experts to the US Food and Drug Administration has unanimously recommended allowing a fish-oil derived drug as an add-on therapy for...

Vitamin E acetate may be major cause of vaping injuries — CDC

Authorities at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are finally zeroing in on one of the substances in vapes that could...

England GPs want an end to home visits

English GP leaders are calling for a removal of home visits from the core contract work because GPs no longer have the capacity to...

Study into post-term pregnancy cancelled after 6 babies died

Sweden has cancelled a major study of women whose pregnancy continued beyond 40 weeks after six babies died. The Guardian reports that the research...

US and EU approval sought for 'ground-breaking' Alzheimer's drug

A US drug company says it has created the first therapy that could slow Alzheimer's disease, and it is now ready to bring it...

US and UK researchers share Nobel Medicine Prize

US researchers William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza and the UK's Peter Ratcliffe have shared the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on how cells...

Widespread medicine shortages hit the UK

Pharmacists in the UK have warned of shortages of every major type of medicine – including HRT, antidepressants and blood pressure pill, reports The...

New NHS guidelines: Transgender patients may choose male or female wards

Transgender patients can choose whether they want to be treated on male or female wards, new UK National Health Service (NHS) guidance stipulates. NHS...