The US Food and Drug Administration has approved convalescent plasma for emergency use in hospital patients with covid-19.1The […]

While we await the inevitable public inquiry into the UK’s management of covid-19,1 it is only fair to […]

The announcement by Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, that the country has developed and approved the world’s first SARS-CoV-2 […]

bmj;370/aug21_10/m3309/FAF1faMatteo Adinolfi was born in 1928 in Asmara, Eritrea, to Attilio, a bank manager, and his wife, Maria […]

Few can doubt that we need a vaccine for covid-19 as soon as possible, and great strides are […]

In July, 239 scientists signed an open letter “appealing to the medical community and relevant national and international […]

Mass testing programmes for covid-19 should be drawing on the UK’s considerable track record in delivering high quality […]

bmj;370/aug19_2/m3245/FAF1faCredit: Fabeha Monir / Age InternationalA doctor tests the blood pressure of a man in the Rohingya camp […]

In March 2020, the UK government commissioned non-medical manufacturers, including Dyson and Renault, to produce ventilators for the […]

Last week, the government announced a major shift in its approach to covid-19 contact tracing in England, by […]