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A China-developed coronavirus vaccine could be ready for the public as early as November, a Chinese official has told state television, as the global race to clear the final round of trials heats up. Chinese manufacturers have been bullish about development, with companies Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm even putting their vaccine candidates on display at a trade fair in Beijing […] It estimates that at least 86,000 patients remain in the backlog but the total is likely to be much higher. The charity says cancer services would need to be working at around 135 percent to clear the thousands of patients waiting for treatment over the next six months. But with services still not operating at full capacity it means that […] Flu jabs will be made freely available to millions more people in the UK this year in what has been hailed the “most comprehensive flu vaccination programme in the UK’s history”. Flu jabs are available either on the NHS or from certain high street pharmacies like Lloyds. But how much is the flu jab in Lloyds this year What is […] Arthritis drug may boost remdesivir’s benefits for COVID-19 sufferers: Patients given both drugs spent one day less in the hospital compared to those who only got Gilead’s antiviral Eli Lilly announced Monday that its anti-inflammatory drug baricitinib used in combination with remdesivir showed promising benefit COVID-19 patients who got both drugs in the 1,000-person NIH study were well enough to leave the […] Tinnitus, nerve damage and a racing pulse from just TWO antibiotic pills… Despite warnings, some doctors are still prescribing drugs that can leave patients with crippling side-effects After being prescribed antibiotics for a suspected urinary tract infection (UTI), Adam Sawczuk was expecting to bounce back to health within days. He’d had stabbing pain and a dull ache in his groin […] When most people with compromised immune systems were sheltering in place, Emily Veach, a 38-year-old woman with advanced cancer, embarked on a 2,400-mile cross-country road trip to move closer to family. In some ways, her experience with a life-threatening illness and confronting mortality made her better prepared for the pandemic than many healthy people. To keep herself safe while traveling, […] Fox News Flash top headlines for September 14 Children transmit coronavirus to their family members following exposure at child care facilities, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released Friday. The study looked at data collected from contact tracing during outbreaks of COVID-19 infections in three Salt Lake City, Utah, child care facilities between April and July. “Twelve children acquired COVID-19 […] Following a large-scale clinical trial, researchers have found that lanthanum carbonate does not reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease developing in patients with chronic kidney disease. The drug is routinely prescribed to patients with chronic kidney disease to help reduce the risk of both bone disease and cardiovascular disease, with cardiovascular disease the most common complication and cause of death […] Motivated by the loss of a patient, a doctor leads a research effort to uncover the molecular mechanisms of hemochromatosis in the heart. When Angelina Cossey Dellacqua finally got the liver transplant her mother had been praying for, she was already so sick and weak that it remained a daily struggle to survive. For the three weeks she spent in […] Patches seem to be all the rage these days. There are birth control patches, nicotine patches, and transdermal medicinal patches, just to name a few. Now, a team of researchers led by Beomjoon Kim at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo have developed a patch of needles connected to a paper sensor for diagnosing conditions such as […]
China says Covid-19 vaccine could be ready for public by November
Cancer patient backlog as high as 100,000 as crisis hits ‘point of no return’
Flu jab Lloyds 2020: How much is the flu jab in Lloyds this year?
Arthritis drug and remdesivir shortens hospital stays for COVID-19
Some doctors still prescribing antibiotics with terrible side-effects
A woman with stage 4 cancer had to road-trip across the US at the height of lockdown. Here’s how she did it without getting sick.
Children spread coronavirus to family members following exposure at child care facilities, CDC says
No benefit from drug used to reduce heart disease in kidney patients
Researchers find potential cure for deadly iron-overload disease
Painless paper patch test for glucose levels uses microneedles
