About 3,500 people in England can die in the next five years from one of the four main cancers (breast, lung, esophagus, or intestine) as a result of delays in diagnosis due to Covid-19, research shows. Many of these will be young or middle-aged people, researchers say in the journal …
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Scientists have suggested that a cholesterol-lowering drug could make coronavirus as treatable as the common cold. Researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York studied the possibility of depriving the virus of the nutrients Covid-19 needs to survive. They found that the fat that accumulates inside lung cells is …
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Men who have recovered from Covid-19 are asked to donate plasma for use in treating sick patients in the trials because they have higher levels of antibodies to the virus in their blood than women. Convalescent plasma is being tested worldwide as a possible treatment for the disease. It contains …
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