Former British prime minister Gordon Brown accused rich countries of committing a “moral outrage” by stockpiling Covid-19 doses while poor countries struggle to get supplies.
In line with growing concerns that certain Covid-19 vaccines are causing unusual blood clotting problems, a group of scientists from the U.K. conducted a massive study on the link between vaccinations and dropping platelet counts and found that the problem lies more on the virus itself than on the medications.
Valneva SE commenced rolling submission for initial approval of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate VLA2001 with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the United Kingdom.
The UK drug regulator approved an antibody cocktail developed by Regeneron and Roche to prevent and treat Covid-19, as the nation battles rising hospitalizations due to the more infectious Delta variant.
A study in Science shed new light on the global epidemic obesity by evaluating nearly 650,000 exomes from the United Kingdom, United States and Mexico and identifying those with strong implications for body mass or obesity.
With a new wave of Covid-19 infections fueled by the Delta variant striking countries worldwide, disease experts are scrambling to learn whether the latest version of coronavirus is making people – mainly the unvaccinated – sicker than before.
Although there have been discussions about using different Covid-19 vaccines in combination, World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan warned against it, calling it a “dangerous trend.”
PRECISIONeffect announced the promotion of two long-term employees who have made significant and strategic contributions to client work from the healthcare advertising agency’s London office: Simon Wilson and Elizabeth Spencer.
The Euro 2020 soccer tournament was blamed for a surge in coronavirus cases as fans have flocked to stadiums, bars and spectator zones across Europe to watch the action while the pandemic still raged.
With an $850 million investment from parent company Fujifilm Corporation, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies is expanding the company’s manufacturing capabilities to support an increased capacity for biologics and gene therapies.
