Health
Covid: Biden promises vaccines for all US adults by end of May
The US will have enough coronavirus vaccines for every adult by the end of May, President Joe Biden has said....
Covid vaccines cut risk of serious illness by 80% in over-80s
By Nick Triggle and Michelle Roberts BBC News A single shot of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab...
Anti-malarial drug shows promise in improving the impact of cancer treatments
Researchers from the University of Oxford have investigated the potential for the commonly used anti-malarial and pneumonia drug Atovaquone to...
US advisers endorse single-shot COVID-19 vaccine from J&J
U.S. health advisers endorsed a one-dose COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson on Friday, putting the nation on the cusp...
Global inequity in COVID-19 vaccination is more than a moral problem
Months before the first COVID-19 vaccine was even approved, wealthy nations scrambled to secure hundreds of millions of advance doses...
An mRNA vaccine for cancer immunotherapy
Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to prevent COVID-19 have made headlines around the world recently, but scientists have also been working...
Using Artificial Intelligence to prevent harm caused by immunotherapy
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University, using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze simple tissue scans, say they have discovered biomarkers...
Covid: Antibodies last at least six months in most
By Rachel Schraer Health reporter As many as 88% of people still have antibodies in their blood to fight Covid-19...
Oxford vaccine could substantially cut spread
By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could lead to a "substantial" fall in the spread of...
COVID-19 Intensive Care Mortality in Sweden Lower Than in Many Other Countries – Here Are the Factors Driving Mortality
Study also found mortality was driven by age, severity of disease and the presence and extent of organ failure, rather...