Playing video games that exercise your brain before major surgery prevents delirium and helps speed up recovery, study finds The process of brain training used in the new study is known as ‘neurobics’ Volunteers were asked to play a brain training game on the run up to surgery Doctors found that playing a specially designed … Read more
Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine candidate prevented severe illness in a small group of hamsters, the drugmaker said on Thursday. In the pre-clinical study, vaccinated animals lost less weight and had less virus in their lungs and other organs than unvaccinated animals. Hamsters that received the vaccine, called Ad26-S.PP, produced neutralizing antibodies, which health experts believe … Read more
A life-changing treatment for the devastating autoimmune condition, multiple sclerosis (MS), may be on the horizon after signs of the disease completely disappeared from nine out of 10 patients treated with an experimental drug. More than 900 volunteers with a common form of recurrent MS were given shots of ofatumumab, an drug designed to alter … Read more
A life-changing treatment for the devastating autoimmune condition, multiple sclerosis (MS), may be on the horizon after signs of the disease completely disappeared from nine out of 10 patients treated with an experimental drug. More than 900 volunteers with a common form of recurrent MS were given shots of ofatumumab, an drug designed to alter … Read more
Once hailed as a breakthrough technology, the coronavirus pandemic may now spell the death-knell for the touch-screen era as car giant Jaguar Land Rover pioneers new ‘touch-free’ contactless screens to help fight the spread of the virus. New patented ‘predictive touch’ technology, developed by the Britain’s biggest car-maker in conjunction with Cambridge University scientists, uses … Read more
Exercise prevents 26,600 early deaths in the UK every YEAR… and almost four million around the world, new study shows Getting plenty of exercise prevents 26,600 early deaths in the UK every year Study finds 15 per cent of premature deaths globally prevented through exercise Now there is an emphasis on praising health benefits, not issuing … Read more
Exercise prevents 26,600 early deaths in the UK every YEAR… and almost four million around the world, new study shows Getting plenty of exercise prevents 26,600 early deaths in the UK every year Study finds 15 per cent of premature deaths globally prevented through exercise Now there is an emphasis on praising health benefits, not issuing … Read more
The leading Oxford University professor at the heart of the coronavirus vaccine trial has dismissed criticism of the treatment, stating it can prevent pneumonia. Earlier this week it emerged that all six of the monkeys that were used in the vaccine trial had gone on to catch the coronavirus. They were also found to have the … Read more
Scientists say they’ve discovered an antibody that blocks infection by SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus behind the current global health crisis. The antibody, known as 47D11, targets the deadly virus’s infamous ‘spike protein’, which it uses to hook onto cells and insert its genetic material. Tests in mice cells showed that 47D11 binds to this protein and prevents it from … Read more