This pandemic is also an opportunity to close an oxygen divide that ranks among the greatest health injustices of our time, say Kevin Watkins and Adamu Isah […]
“It’s funny, but our lives are pretty normal,” Brian, my overnight shift-mate, said as he donned his hair net, mask, gown and gloves before seeing a covid-19 patient. Of course, […]
—And what does it means for the future? By any metric, one should probably call it—the autumn surge has peaked. So what have we learned? Before the second peak, we […]
The NHS disposes of around 133,000 tonnes of plastic each year, but only about 5% of it is recovered. The recently published Delivering a “Net Zero” National Health Service document […]
As the UK approves the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, these authors call for an inclusive approach to vaccine allocation […]
The UK urgently needs an independent Covid Mass Testing Committee to ensure we do not continue to waste money and mislead citizens, argues Margaret McCartney […]
Through press releases, three pharmaceutical companies recently announced the interim, positive results of their covid-19 vaccine candidates clinical trials. Firstly, Pfizer/BioNTech presented the initial results for their mRNA based BNT162b2 […]
What do care homes have to do to get a break in England right now? Before the first UK covid-19 deaths in March, care homes got precious little attention in […]
The covid-19 pandemic has presented multiple challenges to healthcare systems around the world. We want to highlight the difficulties in Kerala, India, of providing palliative care for patients with pre-existing […]
Many children in wealthy countries such as the UK face huge yet avoidable adversities, risk factors for toxic stress and lifelong physical and mental health problems. Al Aynsley-Green notes how […]
