A single dose of the Pfizer vaccine provides “very high” protection from Covid-19 after...
A single dose of the Pfizer vaccine provides “very high” protection from Covid-19 after 21 days - without a ‘top up’ dose in the...
New study shows impact of international travel on death rates during Covid first wave
A new study comparing countries most severely hit by COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic has found that international travel showed the...
COVID-19 policies might result in more life-years lost than saved
The life-years saved from Covid-19 deaths that have been averted as a result of lockdown measures may be fewer than the life-years that will be lost from deaths resulting from curable...
120 soldiers drafted in to help out North West Ambulance Service
Military personnel are to join forces with North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) clinicians to support the response to some non-emergency patients in the North...
Cancer services during COVID-19: 40,000 fewer people starting treatment
Health services across the UK worked hard to try to get services functioning normally throughout the pandemic, and especially when the number of COVID-19...
ONS alcohol-specific death figures for 2019 record the second highest figures since 2001
In 2019, there were 7,565 deaths registered in the UK that related to alcohol-specific causes, the second highest since the data time series began...
Genetic screening before prescribing could benefit millions
Four million UK patients could benefit annually from genetic testing before being prescribed common medicines, according to new research from the University of East...
Novavax vaccine showed 89.3 percent efficacy after two doses
United States firm Novavax has announced that its coronavirus jab was ready for regulators.
Trials in the U.K. showed 89.3 percent efficacy after two doses,...
Manchester Study reveals huge ethnic minority health inequalities
England’s most extensive ever study of ethnic minority health in the over-55s ever has revealed huge inequalities across most groups, compared with white British...
Work begins on Salford’s £68m trauma centre
Construction work will start next month on Salford Royal’s new £68million hospital to support the organisation in its role as the major trauma centre...