Two rare vaccine side effects detected in large global study
Feb 26, 2024 · The largest vaccine safety study to date has identified two new, but very rare, side effects associated with covid-19 vaccines—transverse myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. The Global Vaccine Data Network cohort study included 99 million vaccinated people from 10 sites across eight countries. Researchers compared the observed with expected rate for 13 neurological, blood, and ...
Quality improvement into practice | The BMJ
Mar 31, 2020 · Definitions of quality improvement. Improvement in patient outcomes, system performance, and professional development that results from a combined, multidisciplinary approach in how change is delivered. 3. The delivery of healthcare with improved outcomes and lower cost through continuous redesigning of work processes and systems. 4.
Interpreting an isolated raised serum alkaline phosphatase level in …
Apr 3, 2013 · This article discusses the most common causes of raised alkaline phosphatase levels in an asymptomatic patient and provides advice on the relevant investigations. #### Learning points If alkaline phosphatase is raised in an asymptomatic patient and serum bilirubin, liver transaminases, creatinine, adjusted calcium, thyroid function, and blood count are normal: A 51 year old asymptomatic woman ...
Lucy Letby case: what happens now? | The BMJ
Oct 3, 2024 · A court judged nurse Lucy Letby guilty of seven murders and seven attempted murders in August 2023. But in the year since then questions have been raised about the evidence used to convict her. With a new statutory inquiry now sitting, Chris Stokel-Walker recaps what has happened with the case and what its wider implications are It was the most heinous of crimes. Nurse Lucy Letby was found ...
What do we know about covid-19’s effects on the gut? | The BMJ
May 1, 2024 · Not just a respiratory infection, covid can cause symptoms throughout the body. Gastrointestinal symptoms are common in both acute and long covid, with gut issues often persisting long after initial infection. Katharine Lang investigates Lack of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and abdominal pain. These may not be the symptoms people expect with covid, but around 50% of people experience ...
Vaccinating against covid and flu at same time is safe, study shows
Oct 1, 2021 · Administering an influenza vaccine at the same time as a second dose of a covid-19 vaccine produced no safety concerns and preserves the immune response to both vaccines, say researchers.1 The results from the ComFluCOV study have already been presented to the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation and fed into the committee’s recent advice that the flu vaccine can be co ...
Covid-19: Pfizer vaccine to be available privately at ...
Mar 27, 2024 · High street pharmacy chain Boots will start providing a private covid-19 vaccine service in England from April, offering the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine for £98.95. To be eligible, a person must be aged 12 or over and have not had a covid-19 vaccine in the past three months or had an allergic reaction to any previous injections or vaccinations.
Recognition, diagnosis, and early management of suspected sepsis ...
Jun 18, 2024 · Sepsis is defined as life threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection.1 In 2016, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) first published guidance on recognising, diagnosing, and managing suspected sepsis. In May 2022, a statement published by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges2 (and endorsed by NHS England) on use of the updated ...
Which pain medications are effective for sciatica (radicular ... - The …
Oct 12, 2017 · What you need to know. The most effective pain medication to treat patients with sciatica or radicular leg pain is unclear. In approximately one third of patients, symptoms improve within two weeks; in three quarters of patients, symptoms improve within 12 weeks, but about a third of patients have persistent and disabling symptoms after one ...
Gender dysphoria in young people is rising—and so is ...
Feb 23, 2023 · The surge in treatment of minors. More adolescents with no history of gender dysphoria—predominantly birth registered females2—are presenting at gender clinics. A recent analysis of insurance claims by Komodo Health found that nearly 18 000 US minors began taking puberty blockers or hormones from 2017 to 2021, the number rising each year.3 4 Surveys aiming to measure prevalence have found ...