COVID-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…
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…
Nightingale hospitals to become cancer testing centres With predictions of an extra 18,000 cancer deaths in 2020 due to late diagnoses during the pandemic, Sir Simon Stevens announced that the Exeter Nightingale hospital will be converted into a non-covid CT scanning facility. This will be the first of several dedicated diagnostic centres that will aim…
Flu vaccine considered for an extra 10 million people The government could be considering plans to extend flu vaccines to all over 50s for this winter, with the aim of easing the flu burden on the NHS and to help cope with any second wave of Covid-19. Back in April, the Scientific Advisory Group for…
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