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Research on how well various types of masks and face coverings protect against coronavirus has varied but experts and politicians have generally leaned towards the idea that the chance of some protection is better than none. In the UK, face coverings were first made mandatory in for public transport in June and later for shops … Read more
Maternity ward death traps, with dead children piled on top of each other and blood-soaked corridors, are the new norm in Nicolas Maduro’s socialist Venezuela. Seven years of back-to-back recession and the highest inflation in the world has destroyed the country’s healthcare system, with a critical shortage of doctors and nursing personnel, surgical equipment and … Read more
Doctors in Myanmar are refusing to work on non-emergency patients in protest against the military coup after soldiers detained Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders in a series of dawn raids on Monday. Soldiers and tanks are patrolling major cities but the military takeover, which has ended the country’s brief experiment with democracy, has … Read more
Step aside Dr Hilary, there’s a new band of camera-friendly doctors in town. If TV doctors were once the kind of medical professionals you’d find in a sedate country practice, the latest graduates in the world of TV doctors are an altogether more glamorous, ambitious bunch, with the energy to pinball between television studios and … Read more
Doctors find toothpick inside man’s rectum after he accidentally swallowed it two months earlier The 67-year-old man in Japan spoke to doctors after suffering months of pain After an initial scan, they diagnosed him with stenosis, requiring surgery But right before the operation a CT scan found a three-inch-long toothpick Six days later, doctors performed surgery … Read more
Hollywood powerbrokers are offering doctors $10,000 bribes to skip California’s vaccine lines to get the coronavirus jab early. One top Beverly-Hills medical practice claimed it has received dozens of offers from individuals – including entertainment stars – desperate to be vaccinated. The situation is so bad that one senior entertainment executive described it as like … Read more
Kate Garraway has been told her husband Derek Draper may ‘never come out of a coma’ amid his ongoing battle against coronavirus. Speaking on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, her colleague Piers Morgan, 55, urged viewers to take the disease seriously and made the stark revelation that former lobbyist and political advisor Derek, 53, remains … Read more
This is the moment a maskless conspiracy theorist tries to take a dying elderly Covid patient home from a hospital ward against doctors’ orders, before he is dragged out by security guards. Tobe Hayden Leigh launched a tirade of foul-mouthed abuse as he was frogmarched from the acute respiratory care unit at East Surrey Hospital … Read more
Top intensive care doctors told NHS staff not to blame people for breaking lockdown rules on Saturday, as the number of people on ventilators with Covid-19 surpassed 4,000 for the first time. Dr Alison Pittard and Dr Daniele Bryden, respectively the dean and vice dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, chided other healthcare … Read more
Senior doctors have called for the gap between the first and second doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to be halved to six weeks. The British Medical Association (BMA) has recommended to cut the waiting time, warning in a letter that the strategy is ‘difficult to justify’ and the UK is ‘internationally isolated’. It emerged on … Read more