Tuesday 17 March 2020

New guidance for households with possible COVID-19 infection

New guidance for households with possible COVID-19 infection New guidance to stay at home for 14 days if someone in your household has symptoms of COVID-19 is the focus of the next stage of a public awareness campaign launched by Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock today.

The new guidance will set out that individuals will still be asked to self-isolate for 7 days from the onset of COVID-19 symptoms but any individuals in the household will now be asked to self-isolate for 14 days from that moment as well. Department of Health and Social Care

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What do children and young people need from primary care networks?

What do children and young people need from primary care networks? Healthy London Partnership and the Association of Young People’s Health (AYPH) have produced resources for primary care networks as they seek to address the needs of children and young people.

Trans mental health better if ID matches gender

Trans mental health better if ID matches gender Trans adults have improved mental health and less suicidal thoughts when their identification documents reflect their identified gender, new research shows.

The findings published this week in The Lancet Public Health journal are based on the results from a survey of over 20,000 American trans adults. OnMedica

Type 1 diabetes is two distinct conditions

Type 1 diabetes is two distinct conditions Children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes under the age of seven have a different endotype compared with those diagnosed aged 13 or above.

This is the finding from new research published in Diabetologia - the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]. OnMedica