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An overview of today's Covid-19 news and current trial information relevant for physicians caring for older patients on 13th May 2020.

A London GP is campaigning for oxygen saturation probes to be distributed to homes across the country's capital, which has been worst hit by Covid 19, to prevent 'silent' hypoxia.

Thousands of patients severely ill with coronavirus will have their genetic code studied to help scientists understand whether a person's genetics may influence their susceptibility. 

Greater clarity on how childcare services can operate safely is needed so more doctors are able to go to work and provide patient care in the time of national crisis, according to the British Medical Association.

How can health and social care professionals keep and build on meaningful connections between those being cared for, their loved ones, and those caring during the coronavirus pandemic?

An overview of today's Covid-19 news and current trial information relevant for physicians caring for older patients on 12th May 2020.

Older people and their families need to start having difficult conversations about death and coping with bereavement, according to Independent Age.

Men have higher concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in their blood than women, according to a new study that could help to explain why men are more vulnerable to Covid-19 than women.

An overview of today's Covid-19 news and current trial information relevant for physicians caring for older patients on 11th May 2020.

Doctors should not be hit with a large tax bills after working extra hours to deal with Covid-19 and instead should be properly rewarded for their 'extraordinary efforts' during the pandemic.

NHS staff are being offered free training to deliver a home-based cardiac rehabilitation programme to help support heart failure patients affected by restricted access to cardiac rehabilitation due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

An overview of today's Covid-19 news and current trial information relevant for physicians caring for older patients on 7th May 2020.

The UK will have to use 'everything it has got' to deal with a 'deluge' of cancer patients as the Covid-19 pandemic eases, Professor Karol Sikora, chief medical officer at Rutherford Health, said today.

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has announced that it will conduct an inquiry into various scientific and technological aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The likelihood of death from Covid-19 is significantly higher among England's Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups than the general population, finds a new UCL analysis of NHS data.