The NHS Nightingale Hospital in Manchester will reopen in the next week as the city heads into a local lockdown. A local NHS boss today announced the temporary hospital, set up in the Manchester Central Conference Centre, will be brought back into use before the end of next week. It will become the first one … Read more
Prince William spoke yesterday of the ‘unimaginable challenges’ faced by cancer patients as a result of the virus. The Duke of Cambridge said the ‘knock-on effects’ of the crisis had been particularly acute for those who faced delayed treatments. It comes just days after the prince warned of a ‘mental health catastrophe’ if lockdowns prevented … Read more
A new algorithm could be used in the NHS to help hospitals ‘share the load’ and ensure Covid-19 patients get access to an ICU bed when needed, a study has found. Queen Mary University of London researchers, proposes a load balancing system that would see critical ICU patients transferred between hospitals as needed. This would involve an algorithm … Read more
African-Americans are more likely to test positive for – and be hospitalized with – the novel coronavirus than white people, a new study suggests. Researchers found that black adults in the US were three times more likely to test positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, compared to white adults. Additionally, black coronavirus … Read more
A failure to quarantine enough coronavirus patients is to blame for the second wave rolling across Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. WHO emergencies director Dr Michael Ryan linked soaring transmission rates on the continent to failing contact tracing systems that were not catching and isolating enough close contacts of infected people. Dr Ryan … Read more
Nearly two-thirds of coronavirus hospital patients are still suffering organ damage months after being discharged, a small study has warned. Oxford University experts found 60 per cent of patients had scarring or inflammation in their lungs three months after beating the virus. MRI scans showed 30 per cent had lasting damage to their kidney, 26 … Read more
Nearly two-thirds of coronavirus hospital patients are still suffering organ damage months after being discharged, a small study has warned. Oxford University experts found 60 per cent of patients had scarring or inflammation in their lungs three months after beating the virus. MRI scans showed 30 per cent had lasting damage to their kidney, 26 … Read more
Bake Off judge Prue Leith urges hospital bosses to let patients eat when they want Hospital bosses have been urged to abandon set meal times to help patientws Three patients die in the NHS every day as a result of malnutrition, it is claimed A report suggested patients should have an iPad to order their … Read more
Bake Off judge Prue Leith urges hospital bosses to let patients eat when they want Hospital bosses have been urged to abandon set meal times to help patientws Three patients die in the NHS every day as a result of malnutrition, it is claimed A report suggested patients should have an iPad to order their … Read more
COVID-19 antibodies in the blood of patients fade rapidly after symptoms subside, study finds — leaving around a two-week window of opportunity for plasma transfusions By Ian Randall For Mailonline Published: 11:00 BST, 16 October 2020 | Updated: 11:00 BST, 16 October 2020 Antibodies made by the body to fight COVID-19 — the transfusion of … Read more