As Matt Hancock said in a webinar to me, if you have four grandparents and only four vaccines, do you vaccinate all four or do you just vaccinate two? This is a question which we have all been asking and the government appear to have answered. However, the...
An interesting report by Talha Burki published in The Lancet February 6, 2021 discusses this topic. A new consortium is trying to find out whether the variants of SARS-CoV-2 which are emerging will have different clinical effects. All viruses mutate but the...
An interesting report published in The Lancet 6 February 2020 by John Zarocostas reports on the investigation. With new infections of COVID-19 still spreading rapidly, and health systems stretched to their limits, public Interest is now focused on the WHO...
Early testing can help prevent the development of ovarian cancer Dr Angela Rai, The London General Practice Ovarian Cancer is the 6th most common cancer in females in the UK. This cancer arises from the ovaries, which are part of the female reproductive system and are...
An interesting preprint in medRxiv by Tardif and others published on 26th January 2021 reports new medical research which has yet to be evaluated. Evidence suggests the role of an inflammatory storm in COVID-19 patients. Colchicine is an orally administered,...
An interesting preprint in medRxiv published January 2021 looked at this question. Factors such as non-uniform definitions of mortality, uncertainty in diseases prevalence, and bias sampling complicates the quantification of fatality during an epidemic. ...
