Dancing On Ice’s Denise Van Outen looks pained as she leaves doctors with her arm in a sling after dislocating her shoulder in shock accident By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline Published: 13:50 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 13:50 GMT, 20 January 2021 She powered on through Sunday night’s Dancing On Ice launch show despite … Read more
Doctors and nurses are calling for protection from ‘inappropriate legal challenges,’ as they fear criminal investigations could follow decisions to withdraw life support while treating Covid-19 patients. Last November Boris Johnson warned health workers could ‘be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die,’ should the NHS become overwhelmed … Read more
Doctors have expressed fears over ‘fake news’ causing South Asian people to reject the Covid vaccine over false claims that the jabs contain alcohol or meat and can alter patients’ DNA. Dr Harpreet Sood, who is a Global Digital Health Advisor, said language and cultural boundaries are partly responsible for the false material. The practising … Read more
Doctors fear ‘fake news’ is causing BAME people to reject Covid vaccine over claims the jabs contain alcohol or meat and can alter patients’ DNA Dr Harpreet Sood said cultural boundaries are partly responsible for false news He is part of NHS anti-disinformation campaign with South Asian influencers Doctor said it ‘needs to be clear’ … Read more
Jeff Bridges, 71, is ‘elated’ after doctors tell him his tumor’s ‘drastically shrunk’ … amid his cancer battle Bridges, 71, first revealed his cancer diagnosis October 19 on social media He has lymphoma, which is a cancer of the lymphatic system The Oscar-winner returned to his home ‘elated with the news’ He said he was … Read more
‘Our beautiful girl couldn’t beat the enemy’: Lisa Curry delivers a moving tribute to her daughter Jaimi after her tragic death at age 33 – and recalls the moment doctors told her she ‘would not survive the night’ By Ali Daher For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:16 GMT, 13 January 2021 | Updated: 19:29 GMT, … Read more
Convalescent plasma has been used to treat infections for at least a century, dating back to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. It was also trialed during the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic, 2003 SARS epidemic, and the 2012 MERS epidemic. Convalescent plasma was used as a last resort to improve the survival rate of patients … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus vaccination drive was hit by yet more chaos today after it was claimed that doctors are having to throw away doses meant for patients who didn’t turn up. And elderly patients have been forced to queue outdoors in the freezing cold for their jabs because the NHS’s IT systems keep crashing. It comes … Read more
Private doctors have been slammed for performing non-urgent operations while the NHS is under ‘unthinkable pressure’ caused by soaring Covid cases. Medics performing elective operations privately should be ‘shamed’ out of it amid concerns they are ‘once again taking the p*** and walking off with the money’, London’s top NHS medics believe. All of London’s … Read more
MONDAY THE WARD IS FULL – BUT THE CASES JUST KEEP ON COMING I’m a junior doctor at a city centre hospital in the North of England, but right now I feel more like a firefighter. Every day brings life-or-death decisions here where I work, on a Covid ward for the elderly. At today’s morning … Read more