The coronavirus may cause brain damage in as many as six in 10 critically-ill patients in hospital, a study has suggested. British researchers looked at 125 people hospitalised with the virus at the height of the UK’s crisis in April – but they admitted the patients were selected by doctors and were likely to be … Read more
‘I have the courage to speak my truth’: Jessica Marais shares a raw open letter about ‘loneliness, death and surviving’ a month after being hospitalised By Joshua Fox For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:05 BST, 10 June 2020 | Updated: 23:36 BST, 10 June 2020 Jessica Marais shared a heartfelt open letter about ‘loneliness and … Read more
Malin Andersson has been hospitalised due to her asthma for the second time this year. The former Love Island star, 27, shared a photo to her Instagram Stories on Monday that showed a close up of her hand wearing a white hospital band as she lay in a bed. Revealing the cause of her admission, … Read more
NHS nurse who was clapped out of the hospital after spending 12 days in ICU with coronavirus reveals she tested negative for virus TWICE before being admitted Sue Snelson, from Scunthorpe, has dedicated more than 40 years to the NHS Was applauded by colleagues as she left intensive care unit she used to manage NHS … Read more
Pregnant women are at no greater risk of developing severe COVID-19 than other women, according to research. Some 427 mothers-to-be were admitted to NHS hospitals with the life-threatening coronavirus between March 1 and April 14. Only one in ten needed treatment in ICU, which is no higher than the figure for non-pregnant women of the same … Read more
Being overweight places people at greater risk of being hospitalised with coronavirus and developing a life threatening case of the disease, a study has found. A link between carrying excess weight and developing severe symptoms of Covid-19 has been made after an analysis of 15,100 hospitalised coronavirus patients across the UK, reports The Telegraph. Scientists … Read more
Being overweight places people at greater risk of being hospitalised with coronavirus and developing a life threatening case of the disease, a study has found. A link between carrying excess weight and developing severe symptoms of Covid-19 has been made after an analysis of 15,100 hospitalised coronavirus patients across the UK, reports The Telegraph. Scientists … Read more
Remdesivir anti-viral trial reports ‘rapid recoveries’ for severe hospitalised coronavirus patients with ‘nearly all’ discharged within a week. University of Chicago Medicine recruited 125 people with COVID-19 as part of Gilead Science’s clinical trials. Of those people, 113 had severe disease. All the patients were been treated with daily infusions of remdesivir. Most of them … Read more
More than one in seven people hospitalised with the coronavirus in the UK will die with it, according to official statistics. Britain has now recorded 10,612 deaths from COVID-19 in NHS hospitals out of a total of around 75,774 inpatients – a death rate of 14 per cent. Reports from intensive care units (ICU) show … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more