With the United States recording its highest daily COVID case load in six months, a top public health official warned Sunday that the country is “failing.” “We should not really have ever got to the place we are,” Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said on ABC’s “This Week.” “In that regard, […]
Cancer-stricken Public Health England official with two years to live slams ban on assisted dying as ‘inhumane’ and reveals he would like the option of an ‘extra vial of morphine’ in his final days Professor Paul Cosford is the emeritus medical director of Public Health England The 57-year-old, who was incurable lung cancer, has only […]
France on Wednesday reported 544 more deaths from COVID-19 in hospitals and nursing homes over the last 24 hours, but registered new falls in the total numbers of coronavirus patients. The total toll from the epidemic in France has now risen to 21,340, top health official Jerome Salomon told reporters, while adding that there were […]
Today, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) published new COVID-19 guidance for gastroenterologists treating patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): AGA Clinical Practice Update on Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Expert Commentary. While the COVID-19 pandemic is a global health emergency, patients with IBD have particular concerns for their risk for infection […]
France on Friday reported 78 more deaths from the coronavirus over the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll from the outbreak in the country to 450 people. Top French health official Jerome Salomon told reporters that 12,612 people were now confirmed by tests in France to have been infected with the coronavirus, while […]
