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Covid-19 vaccines: Unknowns and dilemmas
What we will not know when the first Covid-19 vaccines are deployed
04 Nov 2020,35 mins
Covid-19 plasma therapy trial results ‘disappointing’
Indian trial finds that convalescent plasma therapy has little benefit against Covid-19
28 Oct 2020,37 mins
Have you ever hugged your doctor?
What role does touch play in health care?
14 Oct 2020,26 mins
Touch Test results
World's largest study on the topic of touch
07 Oct 2020,26 mins
How long should Covid quarantine last?
Does cutting quarantine to a week increase the risk of missing cases of Covid-19?
30 Sep 2020,26 mins
Have we reached the peak of Wellness?
Could doctors learn a trick or two from Wellness?
16 Sep 2020,26 mins
What is Wellness and does it make you healthy?
Where does the idea of Wellness come from? And who stands to gain from it?
09 Sep 2020,26 mins
Covid-19 sniffer dogs being trained
How a smelly t-shirt could help dogs sniff out coronavirus
02 Sep 2020,26 mins
Newborn deaths in US
Black newborn deaths in the US
26 Aug 2020,26 mins
Covid immunity clues from a fishing boat in the Pacific
How a type of antibody found in three fishermen is helping Covid-19 research
19 Aug 2020,26 mins
Women’s reproductive rights threatened by Covid
Improvements to women’s lives because of birth control advances are put at risk by Covid
12 Aug 2020,26 mins
Choirs and Covid
Do choirs spread coronavirus?
05 Aug 2020,26 mins
Covid testing cuts Apache death rate
Covid testing in homes of White Mountain Apaches helps reduce death rate from Covid-19
29 Jul 2020,26 mins
What’s behind a drop in premature births during lockdown?
Irish and Danish doctors spot a fall in premature births during Covid pandemic
22 Jul 2020,26 mins
Incredible tale of Covid family survival in Spain
Three generations of a family hospitalised in Spain because of Covid
15 Jul 2020,26 mins
Cancer deaths rise predicted after Covid-19
Experts warn cancer deaths will rise because of the pandemic lockdown
08 Jul 2020,26 mins
Double threat of Covid-19 and flu
Flu vaccine orders up as US anticipates winter Covid surge
01 Jul 2020,26 mins
Faster cheaper Covid testing in Rwanda
Rwandan scientists on their pooled testing approach to Covid which slashes costs and time
24 Jun 2020,26 mins
Covid-19: Steroid drug reduces deaths
Trials of a steroid show it can reduce the deaths of those on ventilators by one third
17 Jun 2020,26 mins
Covid-19: Second waves
Are increases in Covid cases signs of second waves?
10 Jun 2020,26 mins
Pain and the brain
New understanding about pain
03 Jun 2020,26 mins
Covid-19 in DRC
Covid-19 and Ebola in DRC
27 May 2020,26 mins
Escalating Covid-19 infections across Brazil
How are Brazilians reacting to mixed messages on restrictions, as virus deaths increase?
20 May 2020,26 mins
Stem cell therapies unproven for Covid-19
Buyer Beware! Stem cell therapies unproven against Covid-19
13 May 2020,26 mins
Should we wear face masks?
Does the wearing of face masks by the public prevent the spread of coronavirus?
06 May 2020,26 mins
Smoking and Covid-19
Could nicotine reduce Covid-19 severity?
29 Apr 2020,26 mins
Covid-19 in Italy
Why was Covid-19 so deadly in Italy?
22 Apr 2020,26 mins
The impact on doctors and nurses of making difficult medical decisions
The “moral injury” felt by staff making difficult decisions during the Covid-19 pandemic
15 Apr 2020,26 mins
The retired doctor who’d want to die at home if he got Covid-19
The latest on the spread of Covid-19 in the USA
08 Apr 2020,26 mins
Tracking diseases like Covid-19 that leap from animals into humans
Learning from scientists in Vietnam tracking diseases that jump from animals to humans
01 Apr 2020,26 mins