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The study involved a selection of randomised clinical trials in which people with suspected, probable or confirmed COVID-19 were allocated at random to drug treatment, standard care, or placebo. Pairs...
In a study recently published in the British Medical Journal, So and Woo (2020) analysed the premarket purchase commitments for COVID-19 vaccines from leading manufacturers to recipient countries.
The antibody drug, Regeneron, was partially credited for successfully treating outgoing American President Donald Trump. It has now received emergency approval in the US for use in people who have...
In 1929, a book entitled ‘Ozone and its therapeutic actions’ was published, detailing more than 100 diseases that could be treated by O3 therapy (Juchniewicz and Lubkowska, 2020), and our knowledge of...
Donna Kinnair, head of the Royal College of Nursing (herself no stranger to racism as a black woman living in the UK) points out that patients in black and minority communities have the worst outcomes...
One such therapy, first offered to patients in the UK in early 2019, is chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T). CAR-T forms part of a newer class of medicines called advanced therapy medicinal...
Millions of patients across Britain, as well as their families and carers, are affected by chronic pain. Unfortunately, chronic pain can have a devastating impact upon a person's day-to-day life,...
There appear to be high rates of hospital admissions for drug misuse poisoning in areas with high levels of opioid prescription (Burns, 2019). Although local authority spokespeople claim there is no...
The basic care in the UK referred to by Asthma UK consists of the prescription and use of preventer, reliever and combination inhalers, as well as tablets, injections, surgery and other novel...
The research surrounding the risks of vaping is conflicting, as e-cigarettes contain nicotine, and are addictive and toxic; however, its effects appear less detrimental to a person's health than...
Precision medicine takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle. It is an emerging approach to disease prevention and treatment that is being increasingly considered...
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