Covid: Infections rising, but vaccines saving lives
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Hospital admissions are not rising at the same rate as infections across the UK, health officials say. BBC News – Health
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HIV disclosure disrupts the lives of Black gay and bisexual men in Louisiana
A qualitative study among Black gay and bisexual men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana sought to understand how HIV disclosure impacts a person’s life and relationships. The study explored how participants’ intersecting identities and the structural inequities they faced impacted their experiences with HIV disclosure. Men in the study experienced multiple negative consequences from disclosure, including… Read More »
John Ivison: The math of saving lives — Canada’s drug battle leaves patients caught in the middle
Article content continued We feel that everyone is blaming someone else and patients are caught in the middle Vertex has done spectacularly well from Trikafta this year, reporting sales of US$ 918 million in second quarter of this year, from zero last year. That helped the company’s net income to soar 213 per cent year… Read More »
Coronavirus vaccine: Treatment approved for use by NHS – ‘Thousands of lives to be saved’
Coronavirus has killed more than 40,000 people in the UK, with the number continuing to rise. But, scientists have made a breakthrough in the search for a COVID-19 vaccine. The NHS has been backed to immediately use the dexamethasone steroid as a treatment for coronavirus. The drug has been revealed to lower the risk of… Read More »
States are easing coronavirus restrictions and ‘it’s going to cost lives,’ researcher says
But pandemic experts say reopening the country is a “big mistake.” “You’re making a big mistake. It’s going to cost lives,” Dr. Irwin Redlener, a pediatrician and disaster preparedness specialist at Columbia University Medical Center, told CNN on Friday. Redlener and Joseph Fair, a senior fellow in pandemic policy at Texas A&M University, sent a… Read More »
Coronavirus: NHS workers’ lives at risk over PPE shortages, says BMA
Media playback is unsupported on your device NHS staff still do not have the protective equipment they need to treat coronavirus patients, medics have said. The British Medical Association (BMA) said doctors were putting their lives at risk by working without adequate protection. It comes as the health secretary said 19 NHS workers had died… Read More »
Emergency app saves lives in Australia’s bushfire disaster
As he went to bed on 30 December 2019, Jack Egan checked the Fires Near Me app to see the progress of a bushfire bearing down on his home on Australia’s east coast. Almost 30kms away, he expected the blaze would die down overnight. But at 6am the alerts and text messages began to arrive.… Read More »