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Drug companies ready to restart clinical trials of medicines for life-threatening conditions unrelated to coronavirus By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 5 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 5 December 2020 British drug companies are ready to restart clinical trials of medicines for life-threatening conditions unrelated to coronavirus. Haseeb Ahmad – … Read more
The perks of being a wallflower: Plant used in traditional Chinese medicine has evolved to become LESS visible to humans to avoid being picked Fritillaria delavayi is a perennial herb employed to treat ailments of the lungs It grows and is harvested amid the Hengduan mountains of southwest China Researchers from the UK and China studied its … Read more
A mother has revealed how a simple ear infection left her looking like a ‘monster’ and feeling like she’d been ‘bitten by thousands of red fire ants’ after she suffered a severe reaction to antibiotics she was prescribed. Rachel Carey, 38, from Dallas, was given amoxicillin, a drug used to treat bacterial infections that she’d … Read more
Dr Eric Rubin, the editor-in-chief of the medical journal said: ‘We don’t have the right leaders for this epidemic. I think we need better leadership’ The New England Journal of Medicine has slammed America’s ‘dangerously incompetent’ politicians for their failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for Trump to be voted out in the November 3 … Read more
Three scientists – including one Briton – who discovered the hepatitis C virus have won the 2020 Nobel Prize for medicine. The winners of the coveted award are Michael Houghton, a virologist at the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health in Cambridge, and Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice. The Nobel committee said the trio’s finds … Read more
‘Vaccine against trauma death’: Injecting a drug that promotes blood clotting at the scene of the injury could save thousands of accident victims’ lives Tranexamic acid is a drug currently used to stop bleeding in trauma patients At present it is administered via an intravenous line — which is fiddly to set up British and French experts … Read more
Cap on number of students allowed on medicine, dentistry and veterinary science courses will be lifted to give pupils a lifeline after A-levels fiasco Caps on medicine, dentistry and veterinary science courses have been lifted The Department for Education also pledged extra funding to help universities More applicants to these high-cost courses will be able … Read more
Johnny Depp today accused Amber Heard of withholding his rehab medicine while he lay ‘sobbing like a child’ as he from suffered from withdrawal on a pre-wedding detox trip to his private island in 2014, as the actor took the stand for a third day of his libel trial in London. The 57-year-old gave evidence at … Read more
The Bachelorette New Zealand star Dr Lesina Nakhid-Schuster reveals she is taking a break from medicine to pursue a career in acting By Jabeen Waheed For Daily Mail Australia Published: 09:05 BST, 9 July 2020 | Updated: 09:05 BST, 9 July 2020 The Bachelorette New Zealand star Dr Lesina Nakhid-Schuster has revealed that she is … Read more
It has been a little under ten months since Elliott Usher died, aged just 30 – a victim of the incurable genetic disease cystic fibrosis. Like so many others, he was taken far too young, another statistic in a grim toll that rises, week by week. But he was, of course, so much more. He was … Read more