April 7th, 2021In the first wave of COVID-19, the mortality rate in a London hospital was roughly the same as that from Ebola in West Africa in 2014, says Professor Peter Piot,...
A study has found that a repurposed drug used to treat arthritis did not significantly improve the outcomes of patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Results of the...Coronavirus
Death rates among seriously ill COVID-19 patients dropped sharply when doctors reduced the use of mechanical ventilators, according to an analysis by the...South Africa
South Africa’s mines are finding that pre-arranged hospital beds earmarked for mine workers afflicted with COVID-19 have already been allocated, as the country’s...Oncology
Men with breast cancer are more likely to die than their female counterparts, across all stages of disease, with the disparity persisting even when clinical...Weekly Roundup
An estimated 6.3m children under 15 years of age died in 2017, or 1 every 5 seconds, mostly of preventable causes, according to new mortality estimates released by...Cardiology
The first study results of one-year data for more than 12,000 patients who had trans-catheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in the US show an overall one-year death...Epidemiology
The first large-scale, direct evidence on smoking and mortality in Australia shows up to 1.8m of the country’s 2.7m smokers will die from their habit if they continue...
