Half of cervical cancer deaths in England now occur in women aged over 65. Most women in the NHS cervical screening programme aged over 65 have never had a test for human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV testing of cervical samples has now replaced cytology for primary...
Professor Justin Stebbing in his weekly science update looks at the current research. The risk of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection is significantly lower amongst patients who had received at least one dose of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine compared to an...
An interesting article published in PLOS1 March 15th 2021 by Hoben and others reviewed this question. They analysed CCTV clips to assess people’s behaviour in public spaces. They concluded that compliance with social distancing directives...
An interesting commentary published in The Lancet March 12th by Benedict and Cedernaes discusses this issue. Within an extraordinarily swift timeframe vaccines to control the COVID-19 pandemic have been developed using either an mRNA protein subunit or...
An interesting article published by Dalbeth and Robinson in The Lancet rheumatology March 9th 2021 discusses this issue. There has been a rapid acceleration in the understanding of predictors for poor outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection since first reports of...
An article published by Hopkinson and others in the British Medical Journal Thorax looked at this important issue. They tried to associate current tobacco smoking with the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 and the severity of illness. They looked at the...
