'Major breakthrough' as drug trial finds steroid can reduce coronavirus deaths

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Myles Stephenson has opened up on how he is supporting his close pal Kate Garraway through her family's ordeal as her husband Derek Draper remains in intensive care while recovering from his coronavirus battle. Myles, 28, and Kate, 53, became close after appearing on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! last year and he is due to appear on Kate’s new morning breakfast show, Breakfast at Garraway's.

coronavirus  meaning the hospital death toll has hit 2,485. The number of positive cases of  Covid-19  has risen to 18,251, an increase of 10 on yesterday’s figures.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.North Lanarkshire recorded its lowest level of weekly deaths in figures released last week at three – one of which occurred in the region’s care homes.A revision in the data provided by the National Records of Scotland shows that three deaths were recorded in North Lanarkshire for the previous week as well and not four as previously reported.As a result, there have been 263 deaths where coronavirus was listed on the

here Dr Alex Horsley, respiratory consultant at Wythenshawe Hospital and Medical Director of the NIHR Manchester Clinical Research Facility (CRF), is leading the study while Prof Maya Buch, Honorary Consultant and Professor of Rheumatology at The University of Manchester, leads the study at the MRI. Dr Horsley said: "Bemcentinib is a drug which has shown promise in clinical trials as a potential cancer treatment.

A team of health professionals from NHS Lanarkshire is delighted to be part of the biggest breakthrough so far in the battle against Covid-19.The doctors, nurses, pharmacists and research experts – who are based across the three NHS Lanarkshire acute hospitals – were part of the UK-wide Oxford Recovery Trial which is testing a number of potential treatments for Covid-19, including Dexamethasone.Dr Manish Patel, consultant in respiratory medicine, led the study in Lanarkshire along with his

hereAs the charts below show in most borough's the pandemic peaked in the week ending April 17, except for Salford which saw its highest death toll a week earlier, and Stockport and Trafford which peaked a week later.Separate figures from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), show eight deaths involving coronavirus in care homes in Greater Manchester in the week ending June 19.That was down from 17 the week before.ONSONSONSONSONSONSONSONSONSONSFigures published by Public Health England show, in the

Coronavirus deaths in South Lanarkshire remained static last week.Two weeks after recording the highest number of coronavirus deaths in Scotland, South Lanarkshire recorded five deaths for the second week running – the third largest in the country.Figures released by the National Records of Scotland today (Wednesday, June 24) revealed that last week saw the joint-lowest number of Covid-19 related deaths since the first three deaths were recorded in the area in the week ending March 29.Only

frontline workers, who died from coronavirus, by using their loved one's uniforms to create teddy bears.Mary MacInnes from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders makes bespoke bears from scratch.The 22-year-old uses the uniforms of those front line workers whose lives were lost after contracting deadly coronavirus.Normally Mary charges a fee for the bears but has been fashioning the touching toys free of charge for the grieving families of frontline staff.Mary, who hails from Kilmarnock, East

hereTameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust and Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust each recorded one more death, bringing the death toll at the latter trust to 250.The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester as of Tuesday, June 23, stands at:Bolton NHS Foundation Trust - 221Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - 9Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - 414NHS Nightingale North West - 6Pennine Acute

NHS Lanarkshire medics are celebrating their role in securing the biggest breakthrough of the battle against COVID-19 so far.Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and research experts helped find the true value of a common steroid.Based across the health board’s three acute hospitals, the health professionasl were part of the UK-wide Oxford Recovery Trial that found Dexamethasone could cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators.Now the respiratory consultant who headed up NHS

Rory Kinnear has said he is angered by the “suggestion” that some people’s deaths in the pandemic are “less worthy than others”.The Bond star’s sister Karina died from coronavirus last month, at the age of 48.Kinnear revealed in May that Karina had severe brain damage and was paralysed from the waist down but said she had “defied predictions her entire life” and “it was coronavirus that killed her”.He previously suggested that the language around the deaths of people from coronavirus, with

coronavirus has increased by 128 - the lowest rise on a Saturday during lockdown so far.

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