Fewer than 15 per cent of patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 since the beginning of September have died from the disease. That figure is half the death rate in the pandemic’s first wave in the spring. Separate figures suggest the death rate for patients who needed intensive care has fallen even further – from … Read more
Fewer than 15 per cent of patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 since the beginning of September have died from the disease. That figure is half the death rate in the pandemic’s first wave in the spring. Separate figures suggest the death rate for patients who needed intensive care has fallen even further – from … Read more
Coronavirus swab gets stuck in patient’s LUNG when it snaps and falls into breathing tube put in her neck after surgery Swabs are designed to snap when put into a test tube but not during use The 51-year-old woman had a breathing tube in her neck after skull surgery Doctors had to fish out the … Read more
Hospitals across England are cancelling routine operations to make way for a surge in coronavirus patients. University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust said it was temporarily pausing non-critical planned surgery at Derriford Hospital, although day case procedures are still going ahead. Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Steve Warburton told staff in a memo … Read more
A new technique can help patients undergoing radiotherapy for throat cancer retain the ability to swallow normally — a development that could benefit around 12,000 people in the UK who are diagnosed with head and neck cancers each year. Treatment usually involves surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy and can be successful, with up to 90 per … Read more
Test and Trace is performing worse than ever: Nearly 32,000 contacts of coronavirus-infected patients in England were not tracked down last week Further 17,000 contacts were not reached by the service within 24 hours It raised the risk of the virus being transmitted to others should they be infected SAGE has warned at least 80 … Read more
NHS hospitals in Blackpool are treating up to 65 per cent as many patients as they were at the peak of the outbreak in April, statistics show. In Newcastle and Liverpool, admission rates are nudging closer to numbers not seen for six months as the second wave of Covid-19 rips through the North of England. … Read more
Almost 90 per cent of Covid-19 patients don’t have any of the three main symptoms of the disease on the day they are tested, scientists have revealed. Researchers analysed data from 36,000 volunteers who were swabbed for the virus between the end of April, a month after lockdown began, and end of June. But just … Read more
The sweets that can fight dementia: British inventor launches ‘rehydration’ tablets that could save the lives of elderly patients who forget to drink enough fluids Lewis Hornby created the sweets after his late grandmother ended in hospital Jelly Drops are a sugar-free snack made from 95 per cent water and electrolytes Mr Hornby, from Burscough, … Read more
The sweets that can fight dementia: British inventor launches ‘rehydration’ tablets that could save the lives of elderly patients who forget to drink enough fluids Lewis Hornby created the sweets after his late grandmother ended in hospital Jelly Drops are a sugar-free snack made from 95 per cent water and electrolytes Mr Hornby, from Burscough, … Read more