EMA has started evaluating an application to extend the use of Kineret (anakinra) to include treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adult patients with pneumonia who are at risk of developing severe respiratory failure…
Africa has recorded a 43% week-on-week rise in COVID-19 deaths, as hospital admissions increase rapidly and countries face shortages in oxygen and intensive care beds
Bangladesh still under the grip of Covid-19: the number of deaths is about 200 a day, hospitals are saturated and citizens are struggling to find drugs to treat their loved ones
"We know that the Delta variant is going to grow and this leads to two recommendations: identify people early, track their contacts and then plan for quarantines. The other major recommendation, I repeat, is to achieve vaccination coverage,…
Vaccine deliveries in Africa: for WHO executives, the responsibility must be attributed to delays in the delivery of the serum produced by the Anglo-Swedish multinational AstraZeneca
Quality training offered at Emergency Expo: DMC, Dinas Medical Consultants Limited, based in Swansea, Wales, specialises in medical and fleet consultancy providing medical cover for events, project management training to include first aid…
Guillain-Barré syndrome and Covid: over the past few days it has been reported that Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine may have triggered the rare Guillain-Barré syndrome, a degeneration of the myelin sheaths lining nerve fibres,…
A useful new feature from the Waze app: if you have an emergency in a holiday resort or in a place other than the city where you live, don't worry: with Waze, if you use the emoji of an ambulance, you can find the nearest emergency room