A breathalyser may give doctors a new way to diagnose a range of respiratory conditions in as little as two minutes. Lung disease is one of the major causes of illness and death in the UK, with one in five people having a respiratory disease. These include asthma, lung cancer, pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease … Read more
AstraZeneca could ask the FDA to approve its coronavirus vaccine as early as February, Operation Warp Speed chief says AstraZeneca’s U.S. trial has hit several delays, including a pause over a rare spinal cord issue in a participant in the UK Its trials run in the UK and Brazil found the vaccine was 70% effective … Read more
Nursing home residents in the U.S. will begin receiving their first coronavirus vaccines later this week. During a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) briefing on Monday, officials said the individual states will decided when elderly Americans will received Pfizzer’s jab ‘Allocations for vaccines went out to the states, to the locations that they directed, and … Read more
The pensioners are among hundreds of people who have told the Mail that they have been slapped with ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders against their wishes under a new NHS policy that affects over-65s.
Like a ‘punch in the stomach’, is how Megan Willis felt on hearing that her eight-week-old baby with partner John Hall had a life-limiting muscle-wasting disease. ‘It was devastating — almost too much, too painful to process,’ says Megan, 29, an events manager, who lives with John, 36, a retail manager, in Colchester, Essex. Little … Read more
The U.S. has finally approved its first coronavirus vaccine and began dosing some of the most at-risk people, including health care workers, on Monday. But the supply of Pfizer’s vaccine is scarce. The firm shipped out just 2.9 million doses, beginning over the weekend. The rollout of coronavirus vaccines will have many stages and is … Read more
Up to six million people will be vaccinated during the first rollout of Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine in the U.S. During a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) briefing on Monday, officials said medical supply company McKesson will obtain the jabs, which will be sent to 3,285 locations across the country by FedEx and UPS. … Read more
The head of Operation Warp Speed says the US government is currently in talks to purchase more doses of Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine for Americans. Currently, the US has plans to receive 100 million doses of the vaccines – enough to inoculate 50 million people – from the New York-based drug company. However, a recent … Read more
Pfizer’s CEO has not yet taken his own company’s coronavirus vaccine to avoid the appearance that executives are not using their positions to get early access to shots, he told CNN on Monday. ‘No I haven’t taken it yet and we are having an ethical committee dealing with the question of who is getting it,’ … Read more
Pfizer’s CEO admitted he wasn’t sure his company would be able to make coronavirus vaccines available as quickly as they have, with the first doses given in the U.S. on Monday morning. ‘I was hoping, and aspiring and I was driving everything so we could do it, but deep inside me, I thought it was … Read more