The decision to halt the rollout of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in Europe is proving to be a major flashpoint. A vanishingly small number of people have developed blood clots after receiving the vaccine and there is currently no causal link to suggest the vaccine is to blame. However, there are […]
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Before returning to DARPA, Tompkins was vice president for research and technology transfer at the Colorado School of Mines. WASHINGTON — Stefanie Tompkins on March 15 assumed the top post at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Tompkins will be DARPA’s 23rd director. She is a former military intelligence officer […]
More than 400,000 people in England were wrongly marked as at high risk from coronavirus because of an over-cautious algorithm. The QCovid algorithm, used to help identify who should be shielding or getting early access to vaccines, automatically put people in the high-risk pile when data was missing, health news […]
I often feel very faint. Could it be a side effect of the blood pressure medication I take? The short answer is, yes. The most commonly prescribed medications for blood pressure are angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, calcium channel blockers and diuretics. Familiar names will be ramipril, amlodipine and indapamide, and […]
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We have been talking on Zoom for a few minutes when Sarah Ling breaks into a broad, if slightly lopsided grin. Her right eye squints, then closes – she looks a bit like she’s winking. As she stops smiling, her eye remains closed for a while longer, before relaxing. ‘I […]
Thousands of older women receive ‘shockingly inadequate’ ovarian cancer care when compared with younger women, meaning they are far less likely to survive the disease, experts have warned. The over-70s face an average delay of five months before being referred to specialists, according to data collected by Ovarian Cancer Action […]
It is one of the world’s most prevalent and widespread infections. No, not Covid-19 – the Epstein-Barr virus, which ‘lives’ silently in about 95 per cent of us. Most people will never know they carry it, as it rarely causes any problems. It’s spread via saliva, and is so contagious […]