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Risk of infection: Air purifiers remove 90 percent of aerosols in school classrooms.

Atmospheric researchers from Goethe University have demonstrated that air purifiers with a class H13 filter (HEPA) can lower aerosol concentration in a...

Atmospheric researchers from Goethe University have demonstrated that air purifi...

2greys

•4 years ago

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Vitamin D deficiency increased risk of COVID in healthcare workers, new UK study shows.

Healthcare workers who self-isolated after developing symptoms of COVID-19 were more likely to have a vitamin D deficiency, with workers from Black, Asian or...

Healthcare workers who self-isolated after developing symptoms of COVID-19 were ...

2greys

•4 years ago

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What is it called!!!!

I had my face to face contact with my consultant today, (she is lovely). I have had a CT scan and heart monitor, she has mentioned that PERHAPS there would be...

I had my face to face contact with my consultant today, (she is lovely). I have ...

Woofly

•4 years ago

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Steroids

Hi everyone have had COPD for 10yrs had a lot of infections this year recently have no appetite feel sick and stomach feels yucky no pain Doctor said it’s the...

Hi everyone have had COPD for 10yrs had a lot of infections this year recently h...

primrose71

•4 years ago

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BBC 2. 9PM ON TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER

Did anyone watch this programme. Surgeons at the edge of life. It was a Lady down at Adenbrookes. Having an operation to remove blood clots on her lungs. I...

Did anyone watch this programme. Surgeons at the edge of life. It was a Lady d...

Bingo88

•4 years ago

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Sheffield university

Sheffield university study google Sheffield university copd breakthrough treatment , this was hopefully being put into trial but now probably has gone under...

Sheffield university study google Sheffield university copd breakthrough treatme...

Martinack59

•4 years ago

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UQ tech could offer ‘faster, cheaper and mobile’ COVID-19 diagnosis

Technology that helps to quickly extract and analyse genetic material could be used for cheap, accurate and mobile COVID-19 testing, including at airports and...

Technology that helps to quickly extract and analyse genetic material could be u...

2greys

•4 years ago

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Liquid gel in COVID patients’ lungs makes way for new treatment.

In some patients who died with severe COVID-19 and respiratory failure, a jelly was formed in the lungs. Researchers have now established what the active...

In some patients who died with severe COVID-19 and respiratory failure, a jelly...

2greys

•4 years ago

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want to know about life with COPD

oberan

•4 years ago

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Azithromycin for the 1st time not agreeing with me

Hi all,Regarding when people 1st went on Azithromycin and it didn’t agree with them what happened next regarding long term antibiotic treatment ? I started...

Hi all,Regarding when people 1st went on Azithromycin and it didn’t agree with t...

Homer12

•4 years ago

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King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Survey

Comparing disability in activities of daily living over time among adults with advanced lung cancer or respiratory disease during the COVID-19 pandemic...

Comparing disability in activities of daily living over time among adults with a...

Carol_ALUK

Partner•4 years ago

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Dried blood spot sampling offers an inexpensive way to widen access to antibody testing for COVID-19.

Currently antibody testing for COVID-19 uses serum or plasma, which requires a full intravenous blood sample, collected by a trained phlebotomist. For...

Currently antibody testing for COVID-19 uses serum or plasma, which requires a f...

2greys

•4 years ago

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Oxytocin’s anti-inflammatory and proimmune functions in COVID-19.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) respiratory disease, has triggered a worldwide...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of coro...

2greys

•4 years ago

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Would appreciate advice

Good morning everyone. Sorry for miserable post, but l am getting pretty desperate and disheartened. I am on azithromycin 250 mg three times week. But got...

Good morning everyone. Sorry for miserable post, but l am getting pretty desper...

callistra

•4 years ago

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Copd and dental treatment

Hello all, I wanted to ask about tooth extraction and root canal work which I am due to have. I have severe copd and also anxiety. Great combo ! Please has...

Hello all, I wanted to ask about tooth extraction and root canal work which I am...

mickyjoan4

•4 years ago

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Why do I have pain in my lower right chest and in my right shoulder?

I'm having a stabbing pain in my lower right chest. It disappeared once when I took a gastro tablet and a painkiller but didn't on the second time. And the...

I'm having a stabbing pain in my lower right chest. It disappeared once when I t...

sidharthbarua

•4 years ago

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Bronchiectasis Diagnosis?

I have just posted this to asthma UK so apologies for anyone reading it twice! Hi everyone! I hope you are all well. I have suffered with persistent chest...

I have just posted this to asthma UK so apologies for anyone reading it twice! ...

BP135

•4 years ago

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Dozens of mammals could be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus that emerged towards the end of 2019 and is responsible for the coronavirus...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavi...

2greys

•4 years ago

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Lung inflammation

Hello everyone, I am new to health unlocked, and I was wondering about some questions I have. I am a post Covid patient, and i have lung inflammation that...

Hello everyone, I am new to health unlocked, and I was wondering about some que...

Mkochkarian

•4 years ago

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Showering

Wow! Thank you all for your replies! I guess I should plan better & try not to hurry. Hope you are all keeping as well as you can x

Wow! Thank you all for your replies! I guess I should plan better & try not to h...

Looseloafers

•4 years ago

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Less than half UK population to receive vaccine, says task force head.

Less than half the UK population can expect to be vaccinated against coronavirus, the head of the government’s vaccine task force has said in an attempt...

Less than half the UK population can expect to be vaccinated against coron...

2greys

•4 years ago

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TUBERCULOSIS SCARRING

Hi there, I have been diagnosed with pulmonary TB. My doctor said I have a cavity in my lung due to the bacteria affecting the lung and burrowing. I don’t...

Hi there, I have been diagnosed with pulmonary TB. My doctor said I have a cav...

Hidden

•4 years ago

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Back in hospital

Back in hospital with pneumonia and it came on very suddenly. Was in A&E for 12 hours before they could get me a bed. Feeling quite sad as I was getting on...

Back in hospital with pneumonia and it came on very suddenly. Was in A&E for 12 ...

Will57

•4 years ago

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Showering

How on earth do you take a shower when you are very out of breath? Any tips please. I take of clothes...sit down...walk into bathroom...sit down...step in...

How on earth do you take a shower when you are very out of breath? Any tips plea...

Looseloafers

•4 years ago

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Leg ache

Hi does anyone else have major leg aches in the morning when they get up? It feels like the muscles are aching all over in different places, but it’s really...

Hi does anyone else have major leg aches in the morning when they get up? It fee...

Chocksaway

•4 years ago

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Covid and Christmas

As a sheilder who was just beginning yo venture out, I have in light on the rising infection rate around the UK to go back into my hermitage to see out what...

As a sheilder who was just beginning yo venture out, I have in light on the ris...

ledge

•4 years ago

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Novel insights into the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection: An overview of current clinical trials.

A very long article to read and understand on a very wet, windy and cool Sunday. Probably Dr John Cambell could even make a week's worth of videos out of......

A very long article to read and understand on a very wet, windy and cool Sunday....

2greys

•4 years ago

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"Give a man a mask and he will tell the truth." Oscar Wilde.

Well, lung buddies, what are we hiding from? When we are masking are we hiding ourselves from the truth, or deflecting the unpleasant reality of Covid 19?...

Well, lung buddies, what are we hiding from? When we are masking are we hiding o...

Cateran

•4 years ago

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Jabs and other things.....

Hi my lovelies, hope you are all keeping safe and well as possible. Had my Pneumonia jab couple of days ago, all went well just felt tired (nothing new there...

Hi my lovelies, hope you are all keeping safe and well as possible. Had my Pneum...

Kimlu

•4 years ago

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Users of blood pressure medicine have a lower risk of dying from influenza and pneumonia.

Drugs to lower blood pressure of the type ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers reduce the mortality rate of influenza and pneumonia. This is the...

Drugs to lower blood pressure of the type ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II recep...

2greys

•4 years ago

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All posts for October 2020

Risk of infection: Air purifiers remove 90 percent of aerosols in school classrooms.

Vitamin D deficiency increased risk of COVID in healthcare workers, new UK study shows.

What is it called!!!!

Steroids

BBC 2. 9PM ON TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER

Sheffield university

UQ tech could offer ‘faster, cheaper and mobile’ COVID-19 diagnosis

Liquid gel in COVID patients’ lungs makes way for new treatment.

want to know about life with COPD

Azithromycin for the 1st time not agreeing with me

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Survey

Dried blood spot sampling offers an inexpensive way to widen access to antibody testing for COVID-19.

Oxytocin’s anti-inflammatory and proimmune functions in COVID-19.

Would appreciate advice

Copd and dental treatment

Why do I have pain in my lower right chest and in my right shoulder?

Bronchiectasis Diagnosis?

Dozens of mammals could be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2

Lung inflammation

Showering

Less than half UK population to receive vaccine, says task force head.

TUBERCULOSIS SCARRING

Back in hospital

Showering

Leg ache

Covid and Christmas

Novel insights into the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection: An overview of current clinical trials.

"Give a man a mask and he will tell the truth." Oscar Wilde.

Jabs and other things.....

Users of blood pressure medicine have a lower risk of dying from influenza and pneumonia.

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