Pfizer’s Covid vaccine will protect against mutated Covid variants because it produces such a massive immune response, a study has claimed. Researchers at Imperial College London studied the impact of a single dose of the Pfizer jab against different types of virus and found it gives broad protection. Although responses were weak after a single … Read more
Going to university and getting a degree does NOT protect you against brain shrinkage, scientists confirm Education has been linked to health advantages — including lower dementia risk Researchers analysed the brain structure of 2,000 people at various life stages They found university-educated people do tend to have larger brain volumes However, higher education did nothing to stave … Read more
NOT all news on access to cash falls into the ‘bad news’ category. Six days ago, there was a victory when a proposed amendment to a Bill passing through Parliament was accepted by the Government – paving the way for retailers to offer customers cashback without the need for them to buy anything in the … Read more
Google Play Store has its own fail safes in place to detect malicious apps and untrustworthy developers, but every now and then a chink in their armor is exposed by smart hackers. With a huge number of apps published every year, Google employs machine learning and AI courtesy of the Play Protect introduced back in … Read more
Elite universities vow to fight cancel culture to protect ‘diversity of ideas’ – after Government threatened to intervene The Russell Group has said ‘disagreement is a fundamental part of debate’ Representing top 24 universities, group pledged to ‘always’ defend free speech The body, which includes Oxford and Cambridge, said it challenges censorship A number of feminists, … Read more
Elite universities vow to fight cancel culture to protect ‘diversity of ideas’ – after Government threatened to intervene The Russell Group has said ‘disagreement is a fundamental part of debate’ Representing top 24 universities, group pledged to ‘always’ defend free speech The body, which includes Oxford and Cambridge, said it challenges censorship A number of feminists, … Read more
Researchers around the country are testing a new two-dose COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is plant-based. Developed by Medicago vaccination, a biopharmaceutical company based in Canada, the shot uses a tobacco shrub to produce coronavirus-like particles. The help the body recognize the pathogen so that it can induce an immune response and launch an attack if … Read more
Actress Sheila Hancock, 88, recently revealed that she has been warned that the treatment she receives for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may affect the efficacy of her Covid-19 vaccine More than half of the UK adult population has received the first dose of the Covid vaccine and, for the vast majority, that spells a passport to freedom … Read more
Floor tiles, signs and posters urge us to ‘KEEP A SOCIAL DISTANCE’, while arcane one-way systems stop us from passing one another. Sinks have been taped up, just in case we get too close while carrying out all-important hand-washing, as have some of the urinals in the men’s loo, presumably to mitigate the Covid risk of … Read more
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine still works against the South African and Brazilian variants of the virus and protection lasts for at least six months, studies suggested today. The jab prevented 100 per cent of infections in a study run by Pfizer in South Africa and UK lab tests on the P1 Brazilian strain of the virus … Read more