A trial testing whether the arthritis drug tocilizumab plus standard care could improve outcomes for patients with severe or critical covid-19 has been stopped early after an increase in deaths.1 Just 129 patients (average age 57; 68% male) had been enrolled in the trial when the data monitoring committee recommended that it should be stopped. This was due to 11 of 65 patients (17%) in the…
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Norway’s health minister, Ingvild Kjerkol, resigned on 12 April after allegations of plagiarism in her masters thesis. She has been under investigation by Nord University…
Chronically underfunded and with hundreds of thousands of roles vacant, social care is in crisis, piling pressure on frontline services and GPs. One solution comes…
