Brits from BAME backgrounds ARE more likely to die of Covid-19, Public Health England review confirms – while the disease is 70 TIMES more likely to kill over-80s, diabetes is a major risk factor and men in lower-paid jobs are dying at ‘significant’ rates Health chiefs launched a probe on the impact of Covid-19 on… Read More »
Government pledges to publish REAL daily death totals including non-hospital deaths as Britain suffers 586 more coronavirus deaths after ONS suggest true total may now be 55% higher at more than 33,000 NHS England today declared 552 more COVID-19 deaths in hospitals and more announced across the UK The figure is almost double the number… Read More »
By CHRISTOS ARGYROPOULOS I am writing this blog post (the first after nearly two years!) in lockdown mode because of the rapidly spreading SARSCoV2 virus, the causative agent of the COVID19 disease (a poor choice of a name, since the disease itself is really SARS on steroids). One interesting feature of this disease is that a large number of patients will… Read More »
Lack of safer drug consumption facility impeding efforts to control HIV outbreak among Glasgow drug users People who inject drugs in public places in Scotland are much more likely to have HIV or hepatitis C and are at higher risk of overdose and skin and soft tissue infections caused by injecting, a survey of drug… Read More »
Walking slowly is a sign of aging fast: A plodding pace at age 45 may be a warning sign for dementia, and early death, study suggests Doctors have long known that elderly people who walk slowly are at higher risk of an early death But new Duke University research found that people who walk at… Read More »