There’s been a flurry of interest about non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs) drugs like ibuprofen and the new coronavirus recently. The UK medicine’s safety authority have been clear that there is no good evidence of a link between severe COVID19 disease and NSAIDs, but that this isn’t a lot of evidence. When there’s not much data of […]
Category: Practice of Medicine
Quarantine, ‘stir-crazy’ and what can we do?
In case you’d missed it, there’s a global pandemic of a novel coronavirus in early 2020 and various governments and organisations are suggesting a variety of things. Much of it revolves around staying away from other people; colloquially ‘quarantine’. There’s actually something much subtler going on, as well, but much of it has the same […]
#HCIDresponse
High Consequence Infectious Diseases do sound terribly administrative, don’t they? Not as headline grabbing as PANDEMIC or OUTBREAK but calmly checkboxy and quizzical. We blogged previously on the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 / COVID19 and promised some thoughts on how we, child health specialists, should respond to this situation. One thing which keeps being unnerving and […]
Emerging infectious diseases and children
We are in the grip of a pandemic and, to some extent, a global panic. A novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan City, China in December 2019 has been identified around the world, and a global public health response has been activated. Other blogs, sites and journals are tracking and reporting on the explosion of […]