The Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR) published last week an article with some recommendations for good clinical practice in colorectal surgery during the novel coronavirus pandemic. 
As a summary, they believe that the COVID-19 epidemic should not lead to approaches that impair oncologic results or expose patients to excessive morbidity. In COVID-19-negative patients, elective surgery should be performed following the current guidelines, using the least aggressive treatment po...

The British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) together with the British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL) and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) have published a guide for how the health service could reduce the risk of infection for those with moderate risk inflammatory bowel disease and liver disease.  There are available equally valuable roles that can be performed without direct contact with suspected or confirmed COVID 19 patients. This advice is for patients with mode...

Innoget is the leading open innovation network for technology transfer and technology scouting. We are fully committed to contributing to mobilizing scientific and expert communities to develop real solutions to the challenges of the Covid-19 outbreak and related infection diseases.
About the initiativeAhead of the global Covid-19 outbreak, Innoget is leading the new established Innoget Covid-19 Open Innovation Initiative, aimed at supporting innovators worldwide in bringing forwar...

Healthcare staff around the world need medical equipment to cope with the rapidly rising numbers of patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by novel coronavirus. The need for protective equipment and ventilators has been well publicized, but hospitals and care centers need everything from swabs and pipettes to sterilization equipment for rooms.To help, HardwareX – Elsevier’s open access journal specializing in open source hardware – is planning a special issue on medical equipment designs....

An initiative from the scientific community to put all available resources at the service of the fight against COVID-19.
Motivation: Most current plans to fight COVID-19 rely on the assumption that treatments and/or vaccines will be available in a few months. Delays in these treatments will have enormous consequences, both in terms of economic impact and human lives.
Aim: Put the wider scientific community at the service of COVID-19 research.

Context: There is now a huge pool of ...

The EpiShuttle is a single-patient isolation and transport system, designed to provide maximum patient safety and comfort while allowing critical care and treatment to be performed. The EpiShuttle can protect the environment from an infected patient, or protect a vulnerable patient from a contaminated environment.

The EpiShuttle is a flexible patient transport platform for use in multifarious environments. It has undergone rigorous testing to ensure compliance with CEN 1789 and tha...

AI-Based Systems Detecting COVID-19
1. DAMO Academy (Alibaba Group) Detects Coronavirus Cases in CT ScansIn early February, Alibaba Research Academy (DAMO Academy) came up with an AI-based solution that can detect COVID-19 in under 20 seconds with 96% accuracy. The network is a deep computer vision model which takes the CT scan of a patient as input and outputs whether or not they show signs of coronavirus. The model was fine-tuned with more than 5,000 training samples and ...

Companies, organizations and individuals continue to attempt to lend support to the COVID-19 pandemic supply effort. 3Dprint.com will be providing regular updates about these initiatives where necessary in an attempt to ensure that the 3D printing community is aware of what is being done, what can be done and what shouldn’t be done to provide coronavirus aid.

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The American College of Surgeons together with their Cancer programs published a list of statements for Elective surgery during the Acute and Recovery phases of the Covid-19 disease pandemic. There, they define the phases of the disease and how to manage all the oncologic surgery that must go forward depending on the infection stage. 

It has been developed by the leaders within the ACS Cancer Programs (American Joint Committee on Cancer, AJCC, Clinical Research Program (CRP), Commissio...

Your immune system is like your own personal army: a vast network of cells, tissues and organs that coordinate your body's defences against illness and disease.

Yet how the immune system responds to coronavirus — and whether it mountsanylasting defence — is one of the biggest unknowns and most urgent questions facing researchers and health authorities right now.

"Like most other viruses, we're going to mount an immune response and in the short term that should mean that we'r...

The drug giant Novartis said Monday it would conduct a 450-person study to determine if hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug touted by many pundits and President Trump, can effectively treat Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.




The study will be a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study, the medical gold standard in which patients will be assigned one of three options: hydroxychloroquine, the combination of hydroxychloroquine and the antibiot...

Alcohol is known to be harmful to health in general, and is well understood to increase the risk of injury and violence, including intimate partner violence, and can cause alcohol poisoning. At times of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, alcohol consumption can exacerbate health vulnerability, risk-taking behaviours, mental health issues and violence. WHO/Europe reminds people that drinking alcohol does not protect them from COVID-19, and encourages governments to enforce measures which l...