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Drugs giant Astrazeneca reached a crucial milestone yesterday after regulators approved its Covid vaccine for use in the UK. The second-largest company on the FTSE 100 has spent months developing the jab with Oxford University. Around 530,000 doses will be available from next week, turbocharging the number of vaccines that can be rolled out in … Read more
Susannah Taylor: I’ve found a sleep game-changer By Susannah Taylor Published: 00:02 GMT, 13 December 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 13 December 2020 This music and meditation box is my new bedside companion We have all heard that we shouldn’t be sleeping with our phones by our beds. Scientists have proven that the blue light … Read more
Half a million Britons faced a desperate scramble to get home from France at the weekend, while Croatia is expected to be added to the quarantine ‘red list’ within days. It comes amid mounting anger over the shambolic way the Government has handled travel rules during the pandemic. Ministers are being urged to replace the … Read more
Fancy a Châteauneuf-du-PAPIER? New ‘game-changer’ wine bottle is made out of paper Frugal Bottle is about to go on sale in the UK in partnership with Italian vineyard It comes with plastic liner that can be stripped out so the bottle can be recycled The bottle weighs 83g, compared to around 400g-500g for conventional glass … Read more
China has excluded dogs from farm animals in a drafted directive, which could see canine meat being barred from the dinner plate across the country. The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said it recognises dogs as ‘companion animals’ and ‘not suitable’ to be managed as livestock in the document released yesterday. Only the … Read more
First I swabbed the back of my throat then – with the same stick – both nostrils, before placing the sample into a small glass tube. This was submitted to a device the size and shape of a domestic coffee machine. Just 90 minutes later the result: a tab showing a single horizontal grey line. … Read more
HALF of results from the 17.5m ‘game-changer’ coronavirus home testing kits ordered by the government could be unreliable, scientists checking them reveal Boris Johnson previously said new tests for antibodies could be ‘game-changers’ But experts have warned that they may fail to detect up to half of Covid-19 cases The latest figures show 47,806 confirmed … Read more
Dr Anthony Fauci has rebuked Donald Trump’s claim that anti-malaria drug chloroquine could be a game-changer in the fight against COVID-19. Dr Facui, who is a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, made the claim during an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN Thursday evening. ‘There’s no magic drug for coronavirus right now,’ the … Read more
Millions of people with bladder weakness may finally be spared embarrassment thanks to new diagnostic test. One in five people have an overactive bladder, which means having to go to the toilet often or suffering leakages. Now scientists are a step closer in the development of a ‘game-changer’ test which will diagnose the problem quicker. … Read more