That’s how Dr. Olivier Joannes-Boyau, head of the intensive care unit at University Hospital in the southwestern city of Bordeaux, describes the resurgence of Covid-19 in France. After young French people took advantage of the lifting of lockdown and summer months to socialize freely, Covid-19 hospitalizations have risen in large cities like Paris, Bordeaux and… Read More »
The SAGE files: Government advisers warned in February that PHE’s contact tracing capacity would be ‘exhausted’ in TWO WEEKS, that there was no evidence for stopping hand-shaking and studies on face masks were ‘weak’ with mixed results Government published papers that were presented to SAGE in March/April They cover international flights, face masks, social distancing… Read More »
Dive Brief: With the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in the United States climbing and concerns over how hospitals can handle the influx of intensive care patients, hospital groups bristled at calls to end lucrative elective surgeries while some prominent hospitals nevertheless moved ahead with such plans. The federal government’s response to the… Read More »
December 27, 2018 Share this content: Fewer patients in the high-dose treprostinil group had clinical worsening. Patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) treated with high-dose subcutaneous treprostinil, a prostacyclin analogue, had increased 6-minute walk distances compared with low-dose subcutaneous treprostinil, according to the results of a study published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Six-minute walk… Read More »