The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has improved the survival and recovery odds for about 90 percent of patients treated with the controversial medication, a physicians group claims. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presented data on 2,333 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine – including two supervised by Dr Oz – across the globe that shows … Read more
The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has improved the survival and recovery odds for about 90 percent of patients treated with the controversial medication, a physicians group claims. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presented data on 2,333 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine – including two supervised by Dr Oz – across the globe that shows … Read more
NHS issues urgent alert amid spike in the number of children being admitted to intensive care with a new coronavirus-related ‘inflammatory syndrome’ By Stephen Matthews Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 09:26 BST, 27 April 2020 | Updated: 10:36 BST, 27 April 2020 NHS doctors have been issued an urgent alert about a sharp rise in … Read more
NHS issues urgent alert amid spike in the number of children being admitted to intensive care with a new coronavirus-related ‘inflammatory syndrome’ By Stephen Matthews Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 09:26 BST, 27 April 2020 | Updated: 10:07 BST, 27 April 2020 Doctors have been issued an alert over a rise in the number of … Read more
Doctors are prescribing medicines they haven’t used for 20 years and others that may cause heart attacks as hospitals run low on eight key drugs. Sedative drugs used to treat patients with the worst coronavirus symptoms in intensive care have been included on a list of drugs banned for exportation in an effort to ensure … Read more
Doctors are prescribing medicines they haven’t used for 20 years and others that may cause heart attacks as hospitals run low on eight key drugs. Sedative drugs used to treat patients with the worst coronavirus symptoms in intensive care have been included on a list of drugs banned for exportation in an effort to ensure … Read more
Britain’s most senior doctors have demanded immediate Government action to tackle soaring fatalities from Covid-19 in black and Asian communities. Many fear Ministers have seriously misjudged the scale of the coronavirus crisis affecting ethnic minorities, and say it is ‘a matter of life and death’ that health chiefs tackle the issue head-on. In an unprecedented … Read more
Miracle twin girls defied five per cent survival odds when doctors performed life-saving surgery while they were in the womb. Matilda and Felicity Harvey had twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, where one twin receives more blood supply than the other. Keziah Harvey, 30, and her husband Jordan, 33, were told at 16 weeks pregnant that it was unlikely … Read more
Doctors say an experimental treatment using blood plasma does work and helped save the life of a coronavirus patient near death. The male patient had been on a ventilator at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was only getting worse. The hospital had just received its first batch of blood plasma from a … Read more
A man who was hospitalised with coronavirus but has since overcome it, believes he may have done so due to practising deep breathing exercises. Rob Thomas, 59, contracted Covid-19 at the end of March and was sent to Gloucester Royal Hospital where he was admitted to intensive care. The family of Mr Thomas, who had … Read more