An ingredient mix-up at a Baltimore manufacturing plant ruined 15 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, The New York Times reported. That could delay future shipments of this vaccine in the United States. Workers at the plant in Baltimore, Maryland, run by Emergent BioSolutions, “conflated” ingredients of the vaccine, the US daily […]
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More than 20 heads of government and global agencies called in a commentary published Tuesday for an international treaty for pandemic preparedness that they say will protect future generations in the wake of COVID-19. But there were few details to explain how such an agreement might actually compel countries to act more cooperatively. World Health […]
Most workers surveyed would expect work to continue partly remote after the pandemic ends. Nearly 90 percent of global workforce polled expect their jobs to partly remain remote, a workforce study shows. In fact, the preference to occasionally work from home is nearly universal, according to a study of 209,000 workers in 190 countries by […]
On March 4, 2020, when there were just 84 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.K., professor Sharon Peacock recognized that the country needed to expand its capacity to analyze the genetic makeup of the virus. The Cambridge University microbiologist understood that genomic sequencing would be crucial in tracking the disease, controlling outbreaks and developing […]
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have given $150 million to a research institute to establish a “new era of biology” aimed at battling diseases with a mix of data and life science studies. The Massachusetts-based Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard will use the funds to build a new center that […]
The UK government announced on Monday that it has developed a new technology that can reduce by half, the time needed to identify if a positive COVID-19 sample contains a variant of concern and could be used in addition to standard testing for COVID-19 to identify cases quickly. The technology – known as ‘genotype assay […]
“Frontline healthcare workers and care givers have been absolutely vital to our response to the pandemic and out of all of the challenges of managing the spikes of COVID-19, there has been a lot of innovation in healthcare,” NHS Tayside’s medical director, Professor Peter Stonebridge, said. Thanks to the input of other experts in manufacturing […]
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection against sickness and eliminated hospitalizations and deaths from the disease across all age groups in a late-stage study in the United States, the company announced Monday. AstraZeneca said its experts did not identify any safety concerns related to the vaccine, including finding no increased risk of rare blood clots […]
Every ten seconds, someone in the UK has a potentially life-threatening asthma attack, according to Asthma UK, while research suggests that globally children under the age of five with asthma are more likely to require urgent healthcare than at any other age. As such, a first at-home device – OMRON’s WheezeScan – could help parents […]
Mahana Therapeutics, a digital therapeutics firm, has obtained a CE mark for its flagship product Parallel. Parallel is a prescription-only (PDT) intended to reduce the severity of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms in adult patients. The program was developed in collaboration with expert researchers under the leadership of Professor Rona Moss-Morris, PhD of King’s College, […]