Nearly 1,000 pregnant women with Covid-19 ended up in hospital since the beginning of the pandemic, figures from the Dutch Association for Obstetrics and Gynecology showed, according to NU.nl. Around 56 percent of the 958 pregnant Covid-19 patients were not directly because of the virus but due to other issues such as premature membrane rupture. Of the 68 pregnant Covid-19 …
The cost of forced psychiatric care like Britney Spears got can be ruinous Enlarge this image toggle caption Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images When Britney Spears went before a judge in June, she bristled as she told of being forced into psychiatric care that cost her $60,000 a month. Though the …
The Dutch association of internists NIV is very concerned that the number of new coronavirus infections stopped falling. "The period in which more than a thousand new coronavirus patients are hospitalized every week has now been three weeks longer than in the spring and is still not over," the NIV said. According to NIV chairman Robin Peeters, the Netherlands is …
Health officials around the world are clashing over the use of certain drugs for COVID-19, leading to different treatment options for patients depending on where they live. On Friday, a World Health Organization guidelines panel advised against using the antiviral remdesivir for hospitalized patients, saying there’s no evidence it improves survival or avoids the need for breathing machines. Within the …
