While the world is focused on fighting Covid-19, a less obvious but equally deadly pandemic is continuing to spread across the globe largely unchecked. ) is a threat that scientists and healthcare professionals have been grappling with for a long time, but the threatens to exacerbate it in a number of ways.  AMR is predicted to if it continues at its current rate with a  earlier this month underlining the dangers. It found high levels of resistance to antimicrobials used to treat common illnesses such as urinary tract infections (UTIs) or some forms of diarrhoea....…While the world is focused on fighting Covid-19, a less obvious but equally deadly pandemic is continuing to spread across the globe largely unchecked. ) is a threat that scientists and healthcare professionals have been grappling with for a long time, but the threatens to exacerbate it in a number of ways.  AMR is predicted to if it continues at its current rate with a  earlier this month underlining the dangers. It found high levels of resistance to antimicrobials used to treat common illnesses such as urinary tract infections (UTIs) or some forms of diarrhoea....WW…

K regulators have issued a warning that people who have a history of "significant" allergic reactions should not currently receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine after two NHS staff members who had the jab suffered allergic reactions.The workers were given the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday - the first day of the NHS mass vaccination programme - and then suffered an allergic reaction.The NHS in England said all trusts involved with the vaccination programme had been informed.The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has given precautionary advice to NHS...…K regulators have issued a warning that people who have a history of "significant" allergic reactions should not currently receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine after two NHS staff members who had the jab suffered allergic reactions.The workers were given the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday - the first day of the NHS mass vaccination programme - and then suffered an allergic reaction.The NHS in England said all trusts involved with the vaccination programme had been informed.The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has given precautionary advice to NHS...WW…

Face masks may be inadvertently and making them get less sick from the virus, academics have suggested in one of the most respected medical journals in the world. The commentary, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, advances the unproven but promising theory that universal face mask wearing might be helping to reduce the severity of the virus and ensuring that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic. If this hypothesis is borne out, the academics argue, then universal mask-wearing could become a form of variolation (inoculation) that would generate...…Face masks may be inadvertently and making them get less sick from the virus, academics have suggested in one of the most respected medical journals in the world. The commentary, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, advances the unproven but promising theory that universal face mask wearing might be helping to reduce the severity of the virus and ensuring that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic. If this hypothesis is borne out, the academics argue, then universal mask-wearing could become a form of variolation (inoculation) that would generate...WW…