“COVID emergency means the UK Government must no longer delay its promise of fixing social care”: The social care system must be drastically overhauled, and the Government urgently needs to deliver on its manifesto commitment to fix the failing social care sector. Launching its new report, Let’s do this: The promise of fixing social care, the Health […]
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have discovered a novel antiviral property of a drug that could have major implications in how future epidemics / pandemics – including Covid-19 – are managed. The study, published in Viruses*, shows that thapsigargin is a promising broad‑spectrum antiviral, highly effective against Covid-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2), a common cold coronavirus, respiratory syncytial […]
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COVID-19 Series: The race to vaccinate a country – Episode 60: The UK is currently undertaking its largest mass-vaccination program to protect millions from a virus that has already killed over 100,000 people in this country. Date and timeThu 4 Feb 2021 from 12:30pm to 1:15pm: Register to join Episode 60 ‘The race to vaccinate […]
Novovax: Halal and kosher vaccine will accelerate UK vaccination once approved: News that the Novovax covid-19 vaccine – trialled in Bradford (England) – will shortly go before regulators, has been hailed as a “milestone for the UK ” by the clinician leading the local trials. Experts say it contains no animal products, a fact which […]
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New research has shown disadvantaged mothers’ mental health and wellbeing improved after regular maternal and child health nurse home visits during pregnancy, continuing up until the child turned two. The study, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in Pediatrics, found the benefits from maternal and child health nurse visits to new mothers were still evident […]
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Israel’s Rambam Hospital Joins Efforts to Develop Israeli COVID-19 Vaccine: Israel currently has the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate in the world, and the vast majority of Rambam’s approximately 5,300 employees have already received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Earlier this month, the Clinical Trials Unit at Rambam Health Care Campus (in Rambam’s Research & Development […]
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A new trial, led by experts from the University of Nottingham, will look at reducing the transmission of Covid-19 and its severity in care homes, thanks to funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The team are initially looking for up to 400 care homes to take part in the ground-breaking trial – […]
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Cera, one of the UK’s largest home care providers, has today released data highlighting the stark lack of vaccinations among older people requiring care at home – with only 1% of the 10,000 users Cera provide home care for in the UK having received the vaccine to date. The firm, which provides 25,000 in-home care […]
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Covid vaccines – all you need to know from Emma Hammett of First Aid for Life. As a registered nurse in the midst of this crisis, I wanted to do my bit to help. The vaccination programme is critical to us emerging and rebuilding our lives and so I volunteered as a vaccinator. The training […]
Calls on governments to consider the continued use of strict control measures as the only way to reduce the evolution and spread of new COVID-19 variants being made by a group of scientists. The experts in evolution, virology, infectious disease and genomics – at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Earlham Institute and University of […]
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