26th October 2020

COVID 19 Healthcare Challenge – can vitamin D help to prevent COVID-19?

Lisa Greenwood

Vitamin D has been in and out of the news recently. The UK's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock announced as recently as the...

12th October 2020

COVID 19 Healthcare Challenge – our October summary & a video on localised lockdowns

Anna Gyarmati

As part of medDigital's continuing myth-busting blog series about the COVID-19 healthcare challenge, we're sharing our latest end-of-month COVID-19 ne...

23rd September 2020

COVID-19 Healthcare Challenge - what science 'R' we following now?

Anne Sakoane

Previously, we wrote about localised lockdown approaches in use in the Northern regions of the UK and how they have helped previously to slow down r...

21st August 2020

COVID-19 Health Challenge - are we taking a risk by eating out in restaurants?

Anne Sakoane

Author: Mei Lee, Senior Scientific Advisor, medDigitalOne of the many social activities we all missed during lockdown was the simple pleasure of dini...

10th August 2020

COVID-19 Healthcare Challenge – video on "Facemasks" from Dr Felix Jackson in our July summary

Anne Sakoane

When medDigital shared one of our first articles in the COVID-19 blog series about digital innovations being used in the wake of the emerging novel...

30th June 2020

COVID-19 Healthcare Challenge - a localised Leicester lockdown

Anne Sakoane

On the 30th July 2020, the UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, announced that police have been given localised powers to enforce two further weeks...

19th June 2020

COVID-19 Healthcare Challenge - a test in time saves nine

Ricky Tsang

“Test, test, test”. That was the powerful message from the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 16th March 20201, exactly 1 we...

15th June 2020

Covid-19 Healthcare Challenge - what are asymptomatic carriers and are they contagious?

Asimina Pantazi

A week ago, Mary met five friends of hers in a park in central London. All of them had been social distancing for two months and they hadn’t presente...

5th June 2020

COVID-19 Healthcare Challenge - is there a right way to ease the lockdown?

Anne Sakoane

“Nobody has got any real idea what the best strategy is to use” says a prominent epidemiology professor. When it comes to the issue of easing the l...

26th May 2020

COVID-19 Healthcare Challenge - how fast can a vaccine be developed and what are current treatment options?

Anne Sakoane

Author: Mei Lee, Senior Scientific Advisor, medDigitalAn article explaining when we could expect a Covid-19 vaccine to be available and proposed tre...
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