Coronavirus vaccine could be rolled out before it gets authorisation from regulators
Professor Sarah Gilbert, the lead researcher of the vaccine development programme at the University of Oxford, said trials were currently...
Month: July 2020
Chris Whitty and Jeremy Hunt clash over UK’s abandonment of mass testing and tracing in March
When dealing with the question of why a test, trace and isolate system similar to South Korea was not modelled...
Coronavirus deaths drop by almost one third in a week, ONS figures show
The ONS said the pandemic is likely to have brought forward the deaths of some vulnerable or elderly people, which...
People are injecting themselves with bleach because of fake news, says senior MP
Coronavirus misinformation on social media has resulted in people injecting themselves with bleach, a senior MP has revealed as he urged...
Hospitals feared testing staff for coronavirus to avoid sending them home, MPs told
Hospitals failed to test staff for coronavirus because they feared having to send too many workers home, when almost half were...
Everything you need to know about sunscreen (and why Mark Zuckerberg wears so much)
UVB is "the chief cause of skin reddening and sunburn, tends to damage the skin's more superficial epidermal layers." While...
Inquiry into Britain’s worst maternity scandal examining more than 1,800 cases
A report found her death was avoidable and criticised two midwives for failing to realise the birth was high risk...
Coronavirus vaccine could be ready by end of year if 50,000 people can take part in trials
The Oxford team is one of 23 laboratories around the world working on a vaccine. Professor Sarah Gilbert, the lead...
Can bariatric surgery turn the tide on Britain’s obesity crisis?
An “emotional eater” since childhood, Claire Parker was 44 when she had a gastric bypass, where a small part of...
Brush your teeth to cut cancer risk
A link between bacteria commonly found in the mouth - such as that tannerella forsythia and porphyromonas gingivalis - and...
Inflation-busting pay rise for public sector workers
Nearly a million public sector workers will be given inflation-busting pay rises as a reward for their efforts during the...
Cancers missed because of coronavirus will shorten lives by average of 20 years, researchers say
NHS figures show that 106,535 urgent cancer referrals were made by GPs in England in May 2020, down from 200,599...
Privacy body accuses NHS Test and Trace system of breaching data protection laws
The NHS Test and Trace programme has been accused of breaching data protection laws after the Government admitted it had failed...
Police force says it will not respond to calls about shoppers who refuse to wear face masks
However, Alison Hernandez, police and crime commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, said officers would not investigate reports of people ignoring...
Experts hail results of human trials of a potential Covid vaccine as a ‘really important milestone’
The Mers vaccine has been successful in trials, and the virus shares a similar ‘spike protein’ with Covid-19, which is...
Anti-vaxxers are selfish – our lives shouldn’t be put into conspiracy theorists’ hands
I’m not a massive football fan, but I love a penalty shoot-out. There’s nothing more thrilling than to watch the...
Structure of DNA rewritten as scientists find genetic ‘towers’ in human cells
A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Leeds University invented a fluorescent marker that...
Coronavirus treatment from Synairgen hailed as ‘game changer’ after trial results show need for intensive care vastly reduced
Richard Marsden, CEO of Synairgen, said: "We are all delighted with the trial results announced today, which showed that SNG001...
The long-term effects of Covid on the body, from the heart to the brain
Many patients continue to feel breathless even after their initial infection clears, with MRI scans revealing residual damage in some....
How to reinvent yourself for a career change
If someone asks about what you love to do, most of us think about our hobbies. Now, however, with so...
Kim Jong-un berates officials over troubled North Korean hospital project
The KCNA report didn't say when Kim visited the site and didn't mention any comments by Kim over stalled nuclear...
Coronavirus outbreak confirmed at NHS Test and Trace Centre in Scotland
A cluster of coronavirus infections has been confirmed at an NHS Test and Trace call centre in North Lanarkshire. Measures have been...
Lockdown may cost 200k lives, government report shows
But charities said more should have been done to get medical care up and running quickly when it became clear...
Cornish hospitals brace for staycation tourists as A&Es implement social distancing rules
Cornwall’s top doctors fear hospital A&Es could be quickly overwhelmed by risk-taking tourists this summer as Britons head to UK...
Patients without medical conditions ask GPs for sick notes to exempt them from mask rules
Patients without relevant medical conditions are requesting a note from their GP to exempt them from the Government’s face mask...
Cholesterol-lowering drug could see coronavirus treated like common cold, study finds
A cholesterol-lowering drug could make coronavirus as treatable as the common cold, scientists have suggested. Researchers at New York’s Mount...
