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Trials of a vaccine that could protect against the coronavirus are set to begin in the UK. Work on the vaccine, developed by clinical teams at the Oxford University’s Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group, began in January. Now a study involving up to 510 healthy volunteers between 18 and 55 is to get started. … Read more
Disney Plus is currently treating customers to a FREE seven-day trial, allowing all UK residents to experience the magic the streaming service has to offer. To access your Disney Plus seven-day free trial, all you need to do is sign up and choose from either the £5.99 per month plan, or the £59.99 annual plan. The … Read more
A breakthrough anti-viral drug found to help critically-ill patients recover from coronavirus within a week is not part of a drug trial run by the University of Oxford to find a treatment, it has emerged. The drug remdesivir, manufactured by pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences, has been undergoing trials in the US and smaller trials in the UK run … Read more
More than 5,000 people in Britain have volunteered to take part in a pioneering drug trial in search of a treatment for the currently incurable COVID-19. The Recovery Trial, conducted by Oxford University, recruited the participants — all of whom are COVID-19 patients already in hospital — at more than 160 NHS hospitals. Participants will … Read more
Coronavirus hopes were today raised after the anti-viral remdesivir was found to help critically-ill patients recover within a week. University of Chicago Medicine recruited 125 people with COVID-19 as part of global clinical trials. Of those people, 113 had severe disease. All the patients were treated with daily infusions of remdesivir, an experimental drug first … Read more
The first results from an international experimental US antiviral drug are promising, even as a trial of the same drug in China shuts down. More than half of a group of severely ill coronavirus patients from the US, Canada, Europe and Japan improved after taking remdesivir made by California-based Gilead Sciences. Originally developed as a … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Scientists in Brazil have stopped part of a study of a malaria drug touted as a possible coronavirus treatment after heart rhythm problems developed in one-quarter of people given the higher of two doses being tested. Chloroquine and a newer, similar drug called hydroxychloroquine, have been pushed by President Donald Trump after some early tests … Read more
The second vaccine safety trial for coronavirus is underway in the US using a skin-deep shot instead of the usual deeper jab injected into the muscle. The pinch should feel like a simple skin test, a researcher told one of the 40 volunteers lying on an exam table in Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday. ‘It’s … Read more
A pharmaceutical firm will donate two million antimalarials to the world’s largest COVID-19 medication trial following Donald Trump’s praise of the drug. Accord Healthcare Ltd, a global medicine distributor, will supply hydroxychloroquine to 40,000 frontline doctors in the COPCOV study. They will take a hydroxychloroquine tablet daily and be followed for a five-month period to see … Read more