Reuters Scientists are developing booster jabs to tackle Covid-19 variants, a health minister says, amid concerns about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine’s efficacy against the South Africa strain. The vaccine provides good protection against the dominant ‘Kent’ variant in the UK. But a small study suggests it offers “minimal protection” against mild disease from the South Africa […]
Getty Images A vaccine to tackle the coronavirus variants could be ready to deploy by the autumn, the team behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine says. Prof Andy Pollard, from Oxford University, said tweaking a vaccine was a relatively quick process and would only need small trials before roll-out. It comes as the UK announced more than […]
The spread of the novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy. Beginning in early March, we’ve seen a rapid sequence of events – from the cancellation of all sporting events, school closures, dine-in restaurant limitations, and social distancing restrictions – the pandemic has caused an upending of life and business as we know […]
Harvard global health professor Dr. Ashish Jha on Thursday lamented the U.S.’s haphazard response to the coronavirus pandemic, describing it as “among the very worst in the world.” “Certainly among all the major countries,” Jha told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, noting how “every major country has more testing than we do across Europe, South Korea, Japan, even Vietnam […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday joined the growing chorus of criticism being leveled at President Donald Trump over his controversial appointment of Vice President Mike Pence to oversee the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. The Democratic presidential candidate argued to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that Pence “is the wrong person” to tackle the outbreak […]
New HIV tests that provide results in minutes have been introduced in Glasgow to help tackle the worst outbreak of the infection in decades. Drug users sharing needles are in the group most affected by the surge of HIV cases in Scotland’s biggest city. Previously, test results could take up to two weeks to come […]
NHS staff are being encouraged to drive to work less and bring in reusable cups and bottles to help the health service tackle climate change. The suggestions are part of an NHS plan to cut carbon emissions to net zero and reduce air pollution. Hospitals will also be told to switch to less-polluting anaesthetic gases […]
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The first minister has been urged to restrict price promotions on food and drinks high in fat, sugar and salt to help fight Scotland’s obesity “crisis”. Health groups and campaigners say multi-buy price reductions “encourage people to buy a greater number of unhealthy products”. Nearly 30% of adults and 13% of children in Scotland are […]
Massive cuts to alcohol rehab services mean a “national epidemic” of alcohol-related problems is not being tackled, King’s College London researchers say. And people with drink problems in England are less than half as likely to receive the right help as those in Scotland and Wales. More than £100m has been cut since services in […]
Nadya Okamoto founded the nonprofit PERIOD—a youth-led “menstrual movement” dedicated to improving access to period products—when she was still in high school. And, today, the 21-year-old is announcing a new year-long campaign to tackle the issue of period poverty. To put it simply, period poverty refers to the fact that not everyone has the access […]
Lawmakers in Massachusetts have introduced legislation that would ban children in the seventh grade or younger from playing tackle football to prevent them from suffering traumatic head injuries. The Act for No Organized Head Impacts to Schoolchildren, or the NO HITS Act, was introduced last month in an effort to protect children’s heads from blows […]
As I approached 40, life had acquired a kind of sameness. Work. Cook. Vacuum. Watch Netflix. Drive the kids to soccer practice. I need something — something different. So when I hear from a friend that there is a women’s football team in our city, I jump at the chance to join. Sure, I’ve never […]
The problem with prescription drugs is simple: The U.S. government bestows long-term monopolies on pharmaceutical companies, immunizing them from the forces of market competition and public regulation. As a result, Americans shoulder the highest drug prices in the world while receiving significantly poorer public health outcomes than most of the developed world. There are a […]
School pupils should learn about organ and blood donation to help tackle of the “silent crisis” of a lack of ethnic minority donors in England, a group of Labour MPs has said. Demand for blood, stem cells and organs in these groups is particularly high and supply very low, their review says. Lack of awareness […]