UK Perspective

• NHS Recovery & Post-COVID Cancer Care   Professor Karol Sikora reflects on a new report on coping with a 10m patient waiting list.
  Medscape UK, February 22, 2021
• Diabetes Product Supply – Is This the Calm Before Storm Brexit? Patients' post-Brexit worries about supplies of insulin, as well as other diabetes medications and devices have not materialised, but a different picture might still emerge.
  Medscape UK, February 16, 2021
• COVID-19: 'Good News at Last'   Professor Kamlesh Khunti reflects on the UK's vaccination programme and international quarantine arrangements.
  Medscape UK, February 15, 2021
• COVID-19: Winners and Losers as Medical Schools Aim to Provide Education 'Fit for Purpose' Medscape UK talks to medical students about learning under lockdown.
  Medscape UK, February 02, 2021
• Undervaluing Public Health Expertise 'Makes COVID Inequalities Worse' President of the Association of Directors of Public Health, Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy talks to Medscape UK.
  Medscape UK, January 21, 2021
• Swapping Medicine for Religion: Former Deputy CMO Turned Vicar Medscape UK speaks to Reverend Professor Gina Radford, a former deputy chief medical officer who became a vicar.
  Medscape UK, January 19, 2021
• Training Your Nose to Smell Again After COVID-19 Should doctors point patients to smell training?
  Medscape UK, January 12, 2021
• COVID-19: Light at the End of the Tunnel or On-coming Express Train? Dr Dan O'Carroll reflects on how we got to where we are with a new year COVID-19 crisis.
  Medscape UK, January 11, 2021
• COVID-19: Positive Takeaways From 2020    Professor Mamas Mamas reflects on the positives that have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape UK, December 29, 2020
• How 2020 Changed Diabetes and Primary Care   Professor Kamlesh Khunti looks back on telemedicine during the pandemic, and looks ahead to the 'new normal' in 2021.
  Medscape UK, December 24, 2020
• What Will Happen to Cancer Services in 2021?   Professor Karol Sikora gives his predictions for cancer diagnosis and treatment under COVID-19 as we head towards the New Year.
  Medscape UK, December 24, 2020
• 2020: The Year of the SGLT2 Inhibitor   Professor Kamlesh Khunti reflects on the 'exciting times' for SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with and without diabetes.
  Medscape UK, December 22, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Development: An Overview   Coronaviruses are enveloped viruses with a large, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA genome circulating in humans and causing common colds.
  Medscape UK, December 09, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Development: Inactivated Vaccines   Inactivated vaccines are produced relatively easily and are usually administered intramuscularly.
  Medscape UK, December 09, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Development: Protein-based Vaccines   Recombinant protein vaccines can be divided into recombinant spike-protein-based vaccines, recombinant RBD-based vaccines, and virus-like particle (VLP)-based vaccines.
  Medscape UK, December 09, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Development: Viral Vectors   Viral vector vaccines contain viruses, like adenoviruses, modified to carry SARS-CoV-2 genes.
  Medscape UK, December 09, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Development: Genetic Vaccines   DNA vaccines are based on plasmid DNA that can be produced at a large scale in bacteria and contain expression promoters and the gene that encodes the spike protein.
  Medscape UK, December 09, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Development: Monoclonal Antibodies   Monoclonal antibodies against COVID-19 are not preventive measures like vaccines, but treatments.
  Medscape UK, December 09, 2020
• Thirty Years of Cancer Care Documented but What Does the Future Hold?   Professor Karol Sikora has edited his latest and last edition of a major cancer book and reflects on what's changed over the years, and what's still to come.
  Medscape UK, December 01, 2020
• Plummeting A&E Attendances Show Children 'Made Invisible' by COVID Measures Paediatric public health consultant Professor Rachel Isba talks to Medscape UK about the urgent need for children’s care to be part of pandemic planning.
  Medscape UK, November 27, 2020