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NHS England's diabetes adviser, Professor Partha Kar (pictured) said he felt tirzepatide should be given the green light after tests showed it helps sufferers shed a fifth of their bodyweight.
A clinical trial suggests that semaglutide, a drug used to treat obesity and diabetes, may protect cardiovascular health in a broad group of people.
With new variants and a changing landscape of vaccination and immunity, what do the symptoms of covid-19—and our understanding of them—now look like? Mun-Keat Looi reports In the short space of a few years we’ve seen surprising changes in the way covid-19 presents. At the start of the pandemic the first commonly reported symptoms were loss of smell and taste, followed by shortness of breath and a cough, followed by vascular injuries, says David Strain, senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School. “That became the standard that we expected,” he says. Betty Rama...
From the start of the pandemic, UK healthcare workers have been risking their lives and health caring for Covid patients without adequate protection. A significant number are now disabled following preventable occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2.
Half of those quizzed said they still have symptoms after catching Covid on the front line at the start of the pandemic - and one in five has had to stop work or cut back their hours