An interesting report published by Sima in the Scientific American showed that a cheap, widely available drug use to treat mental illness cut both the risk of death from COVID-19 and the need for people with the disease to receive intensive medical care. The...
Pfizer’s COVID pill will cut the risk of hospital admission and virus deaths. The science editor of the Times, Tom Whipple published a review of this. He suggests that the new antiviral pill will slash the risk of hospital admission and death...
Why is my tongue yellow? Daily Express November 2021 Dr Paul Ettlinger speaks to the Daily Express online about the causes of yellow tongue. Discover the causes from poor oral hygiene, dry mouth and jaundice to the more serious possibilities such as diabetes or...
An interesting article published in Nature by Rimal and Patterson looks at this issue. As we age, we are more likely to develop aging related illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Yet centenarians, those who are over the age...
An interesting article published by Cromer and others in The Lancet, November 15 discusses this issue. Several SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern have been identified which partly escape serum neutralisation elicited by the current...
The Shingrix vaccine, shingles vaccine appears to give benefit and help to reduce the risk of COVID-19 in older adults. An interesting preprint published in medRxiv by Bruxvoort and others suggests that vaccines may elicit long term boosting of innate immune responses...
