Arthritis drugs may reduce Covid mortality
Treating critically ill COVID-19 patients with arthritis drugs may significantly improve survival, a study finds. The findings, which have not…
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Tragedy of Covid deaths lost in ‘snowstorm of daily figures’
More than 1,000 coronavirus deaths have been confirmed in the UK, the highest daily reported figure since April. It brings…
Employers urged to protect staff from new Covid variant
UNISON has written to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) asking for updated guidelines to protect workers following the discovery…
Covid restrictions ‘tough but necessary’ says UNISON
The Prime Minister has announced a national lockdown and instructed people to stay at home to control the virus, protect…
Call to protect health workers from ‘spiral of exhaustion’
Health employers must do all they can to find ways of maintaining staff levels at swamped hospitals without burning out…
CMOs recommend move to covid alert level five
The UK chief medical officers (CMO) have released a joint statement recommending that the UK COVID-19 Alert Level move from…
Disproportionate impact of covid on BAME community
New London Assembly data, published today, connects higher levels of deprivation, poorer ratings of GP satisfaction and higher numbers of…
Covid vaccines: will life get back to normal?
Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, senior research fellow and lecturer in Mathematical Modelling, UCL, discusses when we can expect life will get back…
