» BMJ Awards 2021: Respiratory team of the year
16/09/21 09:25 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Respiratory high care team—Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustExperience of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic led clinicians to plan to deliver the majority of respiratory support...
» Menstrual changes after covid-19 vaccination
16/09/21 00:00 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Common side effects of covid-19 vaccination listed by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) include a sore arm, fever, fatigue, and myalgia.1 Changes to periods and...
» Case 28-2021: A 37-Year-Old Woman with Covid-19 and Suicidal Ideation
15/09/21 09:00 from Massachusetts Medical Society: New England Journal of Medicine: Table of Contents
New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 385, Issue 12, Page 1125-1132, September 2021.
» Audio Interview: New Evidence on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Boosters
15/09/21 09:00 from Massachusetts Medical Society: New England Journal of Medicine: Table of Contents
New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 385, Issue 12, September 2021.
» Effectiveness of an Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
15/09/21 09:00 from Massachusetts Medical Society: New England Journal of Medicine: Table of Contents
New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.
» BNT162b2 Covid-19 Vaccine in Adolescents
15/09/21 09:00 from Massachusetts Medical Society: New England Journal of Medicine: Table of Contents
New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.
» Protection of BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster against Covid-19 in Israel
15/09/21 09:00 from Massachusetts Medical Society: New England Journal of Medicine: Table of Contents
New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.
» Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine through 6 Months
15/09/21 09:00 from Massachusetts Medical Society: New England Journal of Medicine: Table of Contents
New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.
» SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization with BNT162b2 Vaccine Dose 3
15/09/21 09:00 from Massachusetts Medical Society: New England Journal of Medicine: Table of Contents
New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.
» Vaccinating people who have had covid-19: why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
15/09/21 08:41 from Latest headlines from BMJ
An error occurred in the table of this article by Jennifer Block (BMJ 2021;374:n2101, doi:10.1136/bmj.n2101). The first row of the table includes children aged 0-17 not 5-17. The online version has...
» Covid-19: Booster doses to be offered to 30 million people in UK
14/09/21 14:06 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Booster doses of a covid-19 vaccine are to be offered to the highest risk groups in the UK as a result of new advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.A booster dose will be...
» Covid-19: Long covid must be recognised as occupational disease, says BMA
14/09/21 12:21 from Latest headlines from BMJ
The UK government must recognise long covid as an occupational disease and invest in its monitoring, research, and treatment, doctors have said.In a motion passed at the BMA annual representative...
» Covid-19: Vaccinating children will help end pandemic, says minister
14/09/21 10:41 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Offering 12-15 year olds covid vaccination is the way out of the pandemic, the vaccine deployment minister, Nadhim Zahawi, has said.The government confirmed on 13 September that it had accepted...
» Covid-19: Boys are more at risk of myocarditis after vaccination than of hospital admission for covid
14/09/21 09:56 from Latest headlines from BMJ
The risk of 12-15 year old healthy boys experiencing cardiac adverse events such as myocarditis after their second dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine is around four times adolescents’ risk of...
» The “shadow pandemic” of domestic violence
14/09/21 09:31 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Nila, 30,* cradled her baby in one arm as her other hand was badly sprained. During India’s first covid-19 lockdown she was confined to her New Delhi flat with her abusive husband. Things came to a...
» SARS-CoV-2 Variant Antibodies Wane 6 Months After Vaccination
14/09/21 00:00 from JAMA Current Issue
In a recent study, binding and functional antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants persisted for at least 6 months for most adults who received both doses of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine. However, the antibodies waned over that period and some s...
» Point-of-Care SARS-CoV-2 Variant Diagnostic in Development
14/09/21 00:00 from JAMA Current Issue
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering recently described a low-cost, user-friendly point-of-care (POC) device that detects SARS-CoV-2 and several variants of concern in an hour using saliva samples.
» Percentage Incorrect in 2 Places
14/09/21 00:00 from JAMA Current Issue
In the Original Investigation titled “Association of Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Pregnancy With Neonatal Outcomes,” published in the May 25, 2021, issue of JAMA, an incorrect percentage appeared in the abstract and in the text. In t...
» Adolescent Myocarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination Rare
14/09/21 00:00 from JAMA Current Issue
Postmarketing safety monitoring data suggest that nonserious local and systemic reactions are common among adolescents who receive a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine, while reports of severe adverse events like myocarditis are rare.
» Severe Tuberculosis Surged After Shelter-in-Place Lifted
14/09/21 00:00 from JAMA Current Issue
Tuberculosis (TB) diagnoses in San Francisco dropped by more than half during the initial months of the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, which may have delayed care and contributed to increased hospitalizations and deaths compared with p...