Year: 2020

Britain’s regulators today approved the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, offering renewed hope the end of the pandemic could just be months away.   Officials said the jab will be made available ‘from next week’, while Health Secretary Matt Hancock claimed the approval now offers ‘high confidence’ the UK could ‘get out of this by spring’. It comes Read More

Deaths in England and Wales were 7% higher than usual during week ending December 18, analysis reveals England and Wales stand at 7 per cent higher than expected this year so far 71,200 excess deaths recorded across UK, with 10,400 during the second wave Analysis comes from Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ mortality monitor By William Read More

England will be stuck in its relentless cycle of coronavirus lockdowns until at least the end of spring even if the vaccine roll-out goes to plan, scientists warned today. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said after the approval of the Oxford vaccine this week that he now has a ‘very high degree of confidence that we Read More

Retired doctors desperate to roll their sleeves up and help Britain administer 2million Covid vaccines each week to end the continuous cycle of lockdowns by the spring have today hit out at the NHS ‘red tape’ that requires them to prove they aren’t terrorists before they’re allowed to chip in. Ex-medics wanting to be deployed Read More

“The inflammation of fat cells in obese individuals is linked to many of the comorbidities we associate with being overweight — cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and infection,” says study leader Rana Gupta, Ph.D., associate professor of internal medicine. “By identifying these cells, we’ve taken a step toward understanding some of the initial events that contribute Read More

After looking at social media posts, parents of young children were better able to recall safety messages such as how to put a baby safely to sleep when the images in the posts aligned with the messages in the text, the researchers found. The study appears in the Journal of Health Communication. “Many times, scientists Read More

IMAGE: Metal ion sieving using a bioinspired nanochannel membrane view more  Credit: XIN Weiwen Lithium is an energy-critical element that is considered to be a geopolitically significant resource. However, the supply of lithium may not be enough to meet continuously increasing demand. As a result, scientists are looking for new ways to extract lithium ions. Ion Read More