The Covid-19 pandemic will “look minor” compared with what humanity faces from the growing number of superbugs resistant to current drugs, Prof Dame Sally Davies,…
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AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine is no more – but its remarkable success must not be forgotten | Robin McKie
Last week’s announcement that AstraZeneca would no longer market its Covid vaccine brings an end to one of the century’s most remarkable medical stories. Created…
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In a hospital in northern Norway, just south of the Arctic Circle, a landmark experiment is taking place that could transform the way we treat…
View More Could exercise pills help create a healthier society?Vibrating pill may give dieters a feeling of fullness, study suggests
Dieters everywhere know that, no matter how inventive a chef you may be, nothing leaves you buzzing like sugary or fatty food. Now science might…
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A “gamechanging” drug that prevents hot flushes and could benefit hundreds of thousands of women has been approved for use in the UK. The green…
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It was the ultimate serendipitous discovery: a failed heart medication that became a multibillion-dollar erectile dysfunction drug. But the blockbuster story of Viagra could have…
View More ‘It wouldn’t exist’: Viagra inventor tells how Welsh miners began its rise‘They thought I had cancer’: painkiller banned in UK linked to Britons’ deaths in Spain
A patients group representing several British victims has launched legal action against the Spanish government over claims it failed to safeguard people against the potentially…
View More ‘They thought I had cancer’: painkiller banned in UK linked to Britons’ deaths in SpainUK medicines regulator approves gene therapy for two blood disorders
Britain’s drugs regulator has approved a groundbreaking treatment for two painful and debilitating lifelong blood disorders, which works by “editing” the gene that causes them.…
View More UK medicines regulator approves gene therapy for two blood disordersExperts urge health regulators to approve ‘turning point’ dementia drugs
Health regulators are being urged to rapidly approve two gamechanging dementia drugs in order to ensure millions of people who could benefit are not left…
View More Experts urge health regulators to approve ‘turning point’ dementia drugsDrug for hot flushes will transform menopause treatment, doctors say
Menopause treatments will be revolutionised by a drug that acts directly on the brain to prevent hot flushes, leading doctors have predicted. Speaking after the…
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