Schoolchildren stand up for St Annes man Louis who died suddenly aged just 24
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published its new shared decision making guideline.
In people with severe disease, particularly those ill enough to need hospitalisation, activation of the body’s defence results in a marked inflammatory reaction that affects the blood clotting and blood vessels, resulting in blood clots or thrombosis. These blood clots mainly affect the veins and are called venous thromboembolism or VTE.
Universal Hospital Birmingham are looking for voluntary VTE Link Practitioners from each area within the UHB trust.
Misinformation about Covid vaccine risks and concerns over rare blood clots have had many searching the web for answers.
Listen to Prof Beverley Hunt OBE on Inside Science discuss many questions and considerations as more is learned about the rare thrombosis and thrombocytopenia syndrome.
Prof Beverley Hunt OBE is interviewed on BBC Newsbeat
We wish to raise our concern with the MHRA regarding wording included in recent changes in MHRA guidance on the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Since the start of the pandemic over 4 million COVID-19 infections have been confirmed in the UK causing more than 120,000 deaths.
Unusual blood clots in the brain have been detected in a handful of people after they were injected with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.