31st Jul 2020 Friday FiveWarnings of a second wave of COVID-19 in Europe This week, the news has been filled with concerns about a looming second wave of COVID-19 infections in Europe. Since the beginning of July, the number of new cases of COVID-19 has been steadily rising in a number of countries in Europe, with Spain experiencing the…
31st Jul 2020 NewsJo Spadaccino has joined ZPB as a Partner to help deliver the agency’s ambition of bringing the healthcare worlds of pharma, services and tech together into one integrated market strategy, growth and PR agency. She joins from Pegasus, where she spent the last ten years growing their pharmaceuticals and life sciences team from the ground…
31st Jul 2020 Friday FiveCOVID-19 vaccine could offer ‘double protection’ Scientists at Oxford University working on clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine believe they have made a breakthrough and there is hope that the vaccine could be made ‘fairly widely’ available around September. Phase I clinical trials of the vaccine have shown that it generates an immune response that…
31st Jul 2020 Friday Five UK launches study into research long-term health impact of COVID-19 The UK government has announced it will be launching one of the world’s largest research studies into the long-term health impacts of COVID-19, known as PHOSP-COVID. The study, which will be led by the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, will involve around 10,000 patients…