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How Can We Determine Who is at Risk from COVID-19 Vaccination?
A helpful research study published by Hippisley-Cox and others in the BMJ 17th September 2021 helps to analyse this. They identified a range of important clinical risk factors for severe COVID-19 outcomes in people in the UK, 14 days or more after COVID-19 vaccination...
Can Artificial Intelligence Benefit Screening for COVID-19?
Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic countries relied on a variety of ad hoc order control protocols to allow for non-essential travel while safeguarding public health. These included quarantining all travellers to restricting entry from select nations based on population...
The Antibody Response in Seropositive Patients After a Single Dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine such as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine
Florian Kramer and others cite in the New England Journal of Medicine that the efficacy of two injections of the mRNA vaccines such as Moderna and Pfizer is high in preventing symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in persons without previous coronavirus...
Insect Bites – Patient.COM
Managing Insect Bites Patient.info Dr Stuart Sanders of The London General Practice features on Patient.info discussing Insect Bites, what to look out for, how to manage them and when to seek medical advice. Insect bites can cause a wide range of reactions - from...
Private Health Screening – HealtH and Wellbeing Magazine
Private HEALTH SCREENING HEALTH AND WELLBEING MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2021Dr Angela Rai of The London General Practice speaks with Health & Wellbeing Magazine about Health Screening. Dr Rai discusses the health screens available for Men and Women in their 40,s 50,s...
The Worrying Pandemic of Under Diagnosed Cancer
A new analysis in the Journal of American Medical Association reports that in eight cancers - breast (female patients only), colorectal, lung, pancreatic, cervical, gastric, oesophageal or prostate - diagnoses have returned to pre-pandemic levels in the summer of 2020...
Do People Who Are Vaccinated Get Long Covid?
People who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 appear to have a much lower likelihood of developing Long COVID than in the unvaccinated group. This research published by Antonelli and others in The Lancet Infectious Diseases 1st September is amongst the...
Day 2 Covid testing for International Travel
What Covid testing do we need to do for international travel?How long has The London General Practice been involved in Covid testing? We have been delivering high quality primary care on Harley Street for over 10 years so testing for all kinds of conditions is...
Do the Antibody Levels Against SARS-CoV-2 Correlate with Vaccine Efficacy?
A preprint published in medRxiv August 15th 2021, by Gilbert and others reviewed this issue. In the Coronavirus efficacy trial, they found the mRNA-1273 vaccine, the Moderna vaccine was 94% efficacious against COVID-19 disease. SARS-CoV-2 antibody...
Baricitinib -The first immunomodulatory treatment to reduce COVID-19 mortality in Placebo-controlled trial
Kalil and Stebbing published their data in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine on 1st September. Antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antiparasitic treatments developed in the past century have improved survival outcomes, even in high-mortality conditions such as...
