Charlotte Hartill, a dental nurse from Plymouth, pictured, suffered dramatic weight loss and incredible pain due to her Crohn s disease and thinks surgeons could have treated her sooner.
Paula Rastrick was assured medication would help her feel better, but it marked the start of a year-long ordeal that saw her symptoms worsen and her mental health deteriorate to the point of breakdown.
Asciminib final draft recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for use for treatment of adult patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid
A couple on the London Underground in March 2020. Photograph: Justin Setterfield/Getty Images
A couple on the London Underground in March 2020. Photograph: Justin Setterfield/Getty Images
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Rejoice! A mystery has been solved. We now have an explanation for long Covid, a condition afflicting many thousands of people. A super-spreader has been identified. Important as this finding is, Iâm reluctant to call for the vector to be eradicated. Why? Because itâs me.
In a presentation to the reinsurance giant Swiss Re, Michael Sharpe, a professor of psychological medicine at the University of Oxford and founder of a long Covid clinic, proposed that one of the causes of the syndrome was âsocial factorsâ. The social factor at the top of his list was an article I wrote for the Guardian, describing the suffering of patients with the condition.