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Where Are We with COVID?
James Gallagher, BBC News Health and Science Correspondent provides an interesting update on this current situation. He discusses that every source of data agrees that there is much coronavirus around, but that it has started to fall. The latest number of cases is...
A Common Antidepressant Reduces the Risk of COVID Death
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...
New Covid Drugs
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?
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...
Are Those Aged Over 100 Less Susceptible to the Features of Aging?
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...
Can Neutralising Antibody Titres be a Predictor of Protection Against the SARS-CoV-2 Variants and What is the Impact of Boosting?
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 and COVID-19
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...
COVID-19 Infection, Immunity from Vaccination or Infection?
A personal view published by Milne and others in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine October 21st 2021, looks at this. It is further discussed by Altmann and others in a comment published October 21st 2021. Many nations are pursuing the rollout of SARS-CoV-2...
Can Patients Who Have Antiphospholipid Antibodies Have the mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine?
An interesting correspondence in The Lancet rheumatology published by Sciascia October 20th 2021 discusses this issue. Vaccines represent a cornerstone in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. The availability of data on the immunogenicity and...
The Toxic Effects from Ivermectin Use Associated with the Prevention and treatment of COVID-19
An interesting letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Courtney Temple and others October 20th 2021 highlights this issue. Ivermectin is approved by the FDA as an oral treatment for intestinal strongyloidiasis and onchocerciasis and is a...
