Critically ill patients are transferred to hospitals hundreds of miles away

Critically ill patients are transferred to hospitals hundreds of miles away because local intensive care units are full – as Britain suffers its highest daily death toll since April Britain recorded 981 coronavirus deaths yesterday, highest daily toll since April Hospitals in London asked NHS colleagues in Yorkshire to take unwell patients Officials have asked … Read more

Kate Garraway returns to present GMB for the first time since her husband fell critically ill

Kate Garraway returns to present GMB for the first time since her husband fell critically ill with coronavirus – as she warns Ben Shephard to ‘be rude’ otherwise she ‘will get too emotional’ Kate Garraway has returned to present Good Morning Britain today  She had taken time off while her husband Derek Draper, 52, was … Read more

Kate Garraway returns to present GMB for the first time since her husband fell critically ill

Kate Garraway returns to present GMB for the first time since her husband fell critically ill with coronavirus – as she warns Ben Shephard to ‘be rude’ otherwise she ‘will get too emotional’ Kate Garraway has returned to present Good Morning Britain today  She had taken time off while her husband Derek Draper, 52, was … Read more

European hamster now ‘critically endangered’ and one step away from extinction, experts warn

The European hamster is now ‘critically endangered’ and is just one step away from extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has warned. Once abundant across Europe and Russia, populations of the European hamster — Cricetus cricetus — have declined as a result of lowered reproduction rates. While female hamsters in the wild give … Read more

Nearly 40% of critically ill coronavirus patients in the US die

More than 20 percent of adults hospitalized for coronavirus in the US have fallen ‘critically ill,’ meaning they needed oxygen support or to be put onto ventilators, the largest study of infected Americans to-date finds.  Researchers from Columbia University compiled detailed report on 257 adults hospitalized at two New York City facilities.  Nearly 80 percent … Read more

Lung bypass machines that oxygenate blood have kept 68% of critically ill coronavirus patients alive

Experimental coronavirus treatment that pumps oxygen into the blood of patients on ventilators improves their survival rates three-fold, early data suggests Early research out of Japan showed success in doctors using ECMO machines to treat coronavirus patients aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship The machines pump and oxygenate a patient’s blood outside the body, which … Read more

Lung bypass machines that oxygenate blood have kept 68% of critically ill coronavirus patients alive

Experimental coronavirus treatment that pumps oxygen into the blood of patients on ventilators improves their survival rates three-fold, early data suggests Early research out of Japan showed success in doctors using ECMO machines to treat coronavirus patients aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship The machines pump and oxygenate a patient’s blood outside the body, which … Read more

Kate Garraway says husband Derek is still ‘critically ill in intensive care’

Kate Garraway has shared an update on her husband Derek Draper’s condition as he continues to battle coronavirus. The Good Morning Britain presenter revealed in an emotional Instagram post that he is still fighting the deadly disease. She said: ‘He is still critically ill in intensive care, but where there is life there is hope.’ … Read more

Kate Garraway says husband Derek is still ‘critically ill in intensive care’

Kate Garraway has shared an update on her husband Derek Draper’s condition as he continues to battle coronavirus. The Good Morning Britain presenter revealed in an emotional Instagram post that he is still fighting the deadly disease. She said: ‘He is still critically ill in intensive care, but where there is life there is hope.’ … Read more

Chinese doctors critically ill with COVID-19 wake up with darkened skin

Wuhan doctors who were critically ill with coronavirus wake up to find that their skin has turned dark after virus damaged their liver Dr Yi and Dr Hu were left fighting for their lives after catching the virus at work Doctors saved them by hooking them to a life-support machine called ECMO Change of their … Read more