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Antiviral therapies would prevent the virus from multiplying. Alongside EIDD-2801 being tested on AGILE, other potential COVID-19 treatments that fall into the category of antivirals include...
Donna Kinnair, head of the Royal College of Nursing, and herself no stranger to racism as a black woman living in the UK, points out that patients in black and minority communities have the worst...
Cardiomyopathy or cardiac damage resulting from chemotherapy, radiation and anti-cancer signalling inhibitors is a major consideration (Myatt, 2015). Increases in life expectancy following anti-cancer...
First offered to patients in the UK in early 2019, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy forms part of a newer class of medicines designated advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs)....
Current thinking, developed over many years of turning routinely to pharmacological measures, presumes that pain should never be experienced in the modern world, and that there is a pill that can...
The gene-silencing research outlined in this article is just some of the innovative work taking place in cardiovascular medicine. Next month's column will discuss tissue engineering and regeneration,...
According to new figures from NHS Digital, more than half of all hospital admissions for drug misuse poisoning are related to opioids other than heroin, such as codeine and morphine (NHS Digital,...
Urine can only be effectively stored in the bladder if the urethral pressure remains higher than the internal bladder pressure. A sustained substantive contraction of the pelvic floor, urethral wall...
The development of antibiotics has been revolutionary for medicine and public health. However, given the resistance that is now building up against them, we are facing one of the most significant and...
Traditionally, home chemotherapy has entailed the delivery of the treatment under supervision by a specialised nurse. With the advent of ambulatory devices, this term has evolved to include ambulatory...
The review (PHE, 2019) was a response to a call from the minister for public health and primary care in 2017 for PHE to identify the scale, distribution and causes of prescription drug dependence, as...
There are three main types of output stoma that the community nurse is likely to see. These are the colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy. A colostomy will usually pass formed faeces and flatus between...
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