Mentally ill British man who chopped his penis off in failed suicide attempt gets its reattached nearly 24 hours later… and he can still get erections The 34-year-old, from Birmingham, was found unconscious at his home Patient chopped off penis…
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Study shows why some people may become seriously ill from meningococcal bacteria
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have come one step closer toward understanding why some people become seriously ill or die from a common bacterium that leaves most people unharmed. In a study published in The Lancet Microbe, the researchers…
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Plasma helped severely ill patients but not life-threatening patients
Severely ill coronavirus patients treated with plasma from COVID-19 survivors recovered FIVE days faster – but the experimental treatment did not improve survival odds in life-threatening cases Convalescent plasma therapy is when the liquid portion of blood is taken from…
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Proteins in the blood of COVID-19 patients could help predict how ill they will become
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have identified 27 protein biomarkers that could be used to predict whether a patient with COVID-19 is likely to become severely ill with the disease. People infected with SARS-CoV-2,…
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First prospective study of critically ill COVID-19 patients in NYC
The largest prospective study of adult COVID-19 patients in USA to date confirms that critical illness is common among hospitalized patients (22%, 257/1150). Critically ill COVID-19 patients frequently require mechanical ventilation (79%, 203/257) and death rates among such patients are…
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Cruise passengers donate blood to save critically ill holidaymaker
Passengers on luxury Caribbean Christmas cruise step forward to donate blood after 68-year-old holidaymaker falls seriously ill on the £3,400 per person voyage The passenger, a man from the US, was struck down with an unknown illness He and his…
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