An interesting comment in The Lancet published January 8, 2021, long term follow up of recovered patients with COVID-19. By early January 2021, COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has resulted in more than 83 million confirmed cases and more than...
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease first emerged as a cause of severe respiratory infection in Wuhan. The first two cases in the United Kingdom were seen in late January 2020. In March 2020, The World Health Organization declared a SARS-CoV 2...
Early testing can help prevent the development of Cervical cancer. Latest figures show less than three-quarters of women invited for cervical screening take it up. Cancer Research UK believes this is part of the reason why cervical cancer still affects over 3 000...
The new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in UK causing a surge of COVID-19. An interesting article published January 4 in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Journal by Tony Kirby looked at the effects of lockdowns and the new variant. For most of November 2020...
An interesting preprint by Doshi from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore looked at this issue. It was published by the Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Efforts to control the spread of contagious disease...
An editorial in The Lancet dated December 12 looks at this important issue. Multiorgan symptoms after COVID-19 are being reported by an increasing number of patients. These range from cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, headache, palpitations, chest pain, joint...
