September 15th, 2021For Danes, COVID-19 is officially over. Last Friday (10 September), the country lifted all of its last pandemic restrictions, with the government having declared the...
September 1st, 2021A daily cocktail of aspirin, statins and blood pressure pills slashes a personʼs risk of a stroke in half, a study has found.
According to The Telegraph, Canadian...
June 23rd, 2021The annual number of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men in England is likely to have fallen dramatically, from 2,770 in 2013 to 854 in 2018, showing...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the triple-mutant B.1.617, known as the India variant, is now classified as a variant of global concern, reported...Weekly Roundup
A kitten has died from COVID-19 in the first case of its kind in the UK, as cat owners are warned not to hug their pets, reports The Daily Telegraph. The four-month-old...Coronavirus
New data from Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge suggests that a single dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine can reduce by 75% the number of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2...Coronavirus
Research led by Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox in the University of Oxford’s Nuffield department of primary care health sciences, with collaborators across the UK,...
February 10th, 2021Faced with its first-choice Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine showing showing low efficacy against the South African variant of the coronavirus, the Department of Health has...
The age-dependent risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection resulting in death is consistent across countries for people below the age of 65, but the relative risk in older...Weekly Roundup
Outbreaks of coronavirus have been reported at meat factories around the world, including at multiple sites in the UK. The Independent reports that in October, 75...
