Inhaled budesonide, a common corticosteroid, is the first widely available, inexpensive drug found to shorten recovery times in COVID-19 patients aged over 50 who are...International
After highly encouraging results from its US clinical trials this week, AstraZeneca seemed set to recover from a series of research mishaps, public relations blunders...News Release
With COVID-19 vaccination programmes now under way in many parts of the world, confidence about getting the shot continues to rise.
The latest vaccine survey from...Weekly Roundup
Buoyed by the fact that their vaccine is relatively easy to update, scientists at Oxford University are modifying it in a pre-emptive strike to prevent new coronavirus...Weekly Roundup
Britain has announced that it is helping Kenya prepare to rollout the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Astrazeneca and Oxford University, as African nations race to ensure...
December 16th, 2020There is now solid evidence that e-cigarettes are less harmful than conventional cigarettes and are more effective in helping smokers to stop than nicotine gum or...
November 4th, 2020A large US study by Oxford University found that smokers, especially those who started young, faced nearly three times the risk of dying prematurely from cardiovascular...
November 4th, 2020A study published by The BMJ provides new estimates of the increased risks of breast cancer associated with use of different hormone replacement therapy (HRT)...
November 4th, 2020Prominent UK scientists, including the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, have challenged the death scenarios used by the UK government to justify...
October 21st, 2020Professor David Nabarro, the world’s highest-ranking expert on COVID-19, has said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) does not advocate lockdowns, since their...
