“The risk of nasty side effects in the Moderna and Oxford trials should be made clear now, before it ends up as fodder for the skeptics,” argues Hilda Bastian, a former consumer health care advocate and a Ph.D. student at Bond University who studies evidence-based medicine. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from her article via Wired: On Monday, vaccine researchers…
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UK Halts Hydroxychloroquine Trial, Calling It ‘Useless’ for Covid-19 Patients
An anonymous reader quotes Reuters: British scientists halted a major drug trial on Friday after it found that the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine, touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a potential “game changer” in the pandemic, was “useless” at treating COVID-19 patients. “This is not a treatment for COVID-19. It doesn’t work,” Martin Landray, an Oxford University professor who is co-leading the…
Several Pharmaceutical Companies Are Racing To Develop a Coronavirus Vaccine
“The race for a vaccine to combat the new coronavirus is moving faster than researchers and drugmakers expected,” reported Dow Jones News Services this week, “with Pfizer Inc. joining several other groups saying that they had accelerated the timetable for testing and that a vaccine could be ready for emergency use in the fall.”
Pfizer said Tuesday it will begin testing of…
First Human Trial In Europe of a Coronavirus Vaccine Has Begun In Oxford
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected, the first of more than 800 people recruited for the study. Half will receive the Covid-19 vaccine, and half a control vaccine which protects against meningitis but not coronavirus. The design of the trial…
Does a Vegan Diet Affect Your Intelligence?
“The vegan diet is low in — or, in some cases, entirely devoid of — several important brain nutrients,” argues the BBC. “Could these shortcomings be affecting vegans’ abilities to think?” omfglearntoplay shared their article:
According to the latest statistics, there are around 375 million vegetarians on the planet. In the West, veganism has ditched the hippie stigma to become one of…
Edmond Halley’s magnificent prediction
Born on today’s date in the year 1656, English astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was the first to predict the return of a comet. Today, Halley’s Comet – the most famous of all comets – bears his name. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/today-in-science-edmond-halley-nov-8-1656…
Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes To 3 Scientists For Discovering How Cells Use Oxygen
Dave Knott writes: Two Americans and a British scientist won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discovering details of how the body’s cells sense and react to low oxygen levels, providing a foothold for developing new treatments for anemia, cancer and other diseases. Drs. William G. Kaelin Jr., of Harvard University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Gregg…
Nobel prize for medicine goes to discovery of how cells sense oxygen
The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been jointly awarded to William Kaelin of Harvard University, Peter Ratcliffe of Oxford University and Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University, for their discovery of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2218951-nobel-prize-for-medicine-goes-to-discovery-of-how-cells-sense-oxygen/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…