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At the Brink of an Era of Personalised Medicine?

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Dementia: Genetic or Environmental?

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“The Pill”: Long-Term Impact

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22nd Jan 202030th Apr 2020

Intermittent Fasting: Fad or Fact?

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15th Jan 202028th May 2020

Are Vaccines Harmful?

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28th Dec 201930th Apr 2020

Where is the ‘Male Pill’?

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17th Dec 201930th Apr 2020

Is Meat Bad for You?

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An Introduction

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Vaccines are like a training course for our immune system. They train our body to recognise and fight 💪🏽a specific disease without exposing us to the disease symptoms 🤒! A vaccine 💉 is a mild form of the virus (i.e. an inactivated virus fragment) - that is presented to our immune system so that it learns to recognise, produce antibodies to the harmless form virus and keep a record of this viral information to be better prepared for a future encounter with a infectious, active virus 🦠
Convalescent plasma has been making headlines, especially with news of a new national trial in which recovered COVID-19 patients can donate their blood as a potential treatment for COVID-19. 💉 But what exactly is convalescent plasma? 🧪 Where has this idea come from? 🤷‍♀️ And how has it been used before? 🦠
COVID-19 is more than just pneumonia, and severe disease has been observed to cause multi-organ dysfunction. Whether this is part of a systemic inflammatory response or due to direct action of the COVID-19 virus on particular cells remains unclear, however this raises further questions about its long-term impact. 😷
With increasing talk of lockdown being lifted, and social distancing measures being relaxed in places across the world, it raises questions of what life post-lockdown will look like. 🤷‍♀️ Although the NHS has increased its capacity, returning to "normal" will cause COVID-19 to spread freely again resulting in an unmanageable second peak. 📈 The "new normal" will keep COVID-19 under control, whilst allowing us to slowly transition back to a more familiar way of living. 🌍
The COVID-19 antibody test has become the holy grail of coronavirus testing. 🩸 It promises to show us who has had the infection and recovered, with our without developing symptoms. 🤒 There has even been talk of immunity passports for those who demonstrate development of an immune response. 🤷‍♀️ In this infographic we show you how the antibody test works in principle. 🤔 However, not enough is known about how long IgG against COVID-19 remains in the body after recovering from the initial infection, so we don't know how long immunity will last. 📈
With the increasing number of clinical trials taking place it becomes hard to stay on top of it all! 🤯 Here, we provide a simple summary of the most promising vaccine candidates currently in trials! 🔬
What is RT- PCR? 🤔 ⁣⁣
There has been a lot of debate about PPE guidance from WHO and Public Health England. 🤨 From the evidence so far, COVID-19 is an infection that spreads through respiratory droplets and contact. 💦👥 This means that it spreads through coughs/sneezes/saliva (hence social distancing) 🌬️ and can go from person-to-person when we cough into our hands and touch our faces (hence hand-washing). 🚿⁣
How to distinguish real vs. fake news? 🧐 Skepticism is about doubting the truth of knowledge or facts. It may seem obvious, but with this infographic we hope to raise awareness and encourage people to question before sharing information they have not fact-checked. 🤔Uncertainty and misinformation are contributing to the cloud of fear around COVID-19, and following bad advice could lead to false reassurance. 👀 Think before you forward! ➡️

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