Around 85,000 Britons are missing out on therapy, charity warns

Around 85,000 Britons are missing out on therapy for osteoporosis because of a ‘Wild West’ postcode lottery of care, charity warns Only half of NHS trusts have a Fracture Liaison Service, an FOI request showed The service is a gold standard of care, the Royal Osteoporosis Society claims Osteoporosis affects 3.5million people in the UK […]

Around a third of infants with COVID-19 may have caught it from mother

Environmental exposure to SARS-CoV-2 was responsible for the majority of infections detected in newborn infants in an analysis of 176 reported cases. However, the findings, published in Nature Communications, suggest that 30% of the reported cases may have been acquired from the mother. Daniele De Luca and colleagues performed a meta-analysis of published cases of […]