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Private Health Screening – HealtH and Wellbeing Magazine
Private HEALTH SCREENING HEALTH AND WELLBEING MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2021Dr Angela Rai of The London General Practice speaks with Health & Wellbeing Magazine about Health Screening. Dr Rai discusses the health screens available for Men and Women in their 40,s 50,s...
The Worrying Pandemic of Under Diagnosed Cancer
A new analysis in the Journal of American Medical Association reports that in eight cancers - breast (female patients only), colorectal, lung, pancreatic, cervical, gastric, oesophageal or prostate - diagnoses have returned to pre-pandemic levels in the summer of 2020...
Do People Who Are Vaccinated Get Long Covid?
People who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 appear to have a much lower likelihood of developing Long COVID than in the unvaccinated group. This research published by Antonelli and others in The Lancet Infectious Diseases 1st September is amongst the...
Day 2 Covid testing for International Travel
What Covid testing do we need to do for international travel?How long has The London General Practice been involved in Covid testing? We have been delivering high quality primary care on Harley Street for over 10 years so testing for all kinds of conditions is...
Do the Antibody Levels Against SARS-CoV-2 Correlate with Vaccine Efficacy?
A preprint published in medRxiv August 15th 2021, by Gilbert and others reviewed this issue. In the Coronavirus efficacy trial, they found the mRNA-1273 vaccine, the Moderna vaccine was 94% efficacious against COVID-19 disease. SARS-CoV-2 antibody...
Baricitinib -The first immunomodulatory treatment to reduce COVID-19 mortality in Placebo-controlled trial
Kalil and Stebbing published their data in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine on 1st September. Antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antiparasitic treatments developed in the past century have improved survival outcomes, even in high-mortality conditions such as...
Does Eating a Plant-Based Diet Reduce the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease?
A study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association by Choi and others on 4th August 2021 explores this. The association between diets that focus on plant foods and restrict animal products and cardiovascular disease is inconclusive. This...
Understanding Long COVID – A Modern Medical Challenge?
The editorial published in The Lancet August 28th 2021 reviews this. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the need to understand and respond to long COVID is increasingly pressing. Symptoms such as persistent fatigue, breathlessness, brain fog and depression could...
One Year Outcomes in Hospitals Survivors with COVID-19, a Longitudinal Cohort Study
Huang and others published this study in The Lancet August 28th 2021. The full range of long term health consequences of COVID-19 in patients who are discharged from hospital is largely unclear. The aim of this study was to comprehensively compare...
Is Being Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Safer Than Getting the COVID-19 Infection Itself?
Safety of the messenger RNA Pfizer vaccine was evaluated by Barda and others and published in the New England Journal of Medicine on August 25th. Background trials showed that messenger RNA based vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus,...
