
UK ready to tweak vaccines to fight variants, says Johnson
- UK
- January 20, 2021, 20:41
Boris Johnson on Wednesday declared that Britain was ready to quickly deploy tweaked vaccines to combat new variants of coronavirus, as the number of (...)

How well does the Oxford vaccine work? What we know so far
- UK
- December 30, 2020, 09:06
What is the latest news? The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has approved the vaccine developed by Oxford University and the(...)

Allergy warning on Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine
- Health & Pharma
- December 9, 2020, 13:22
People with a significant history of allergies should not receive the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the UK medical regulator has said, after tw(...)

Supply of Covid vaccine doses held up by manufacturing delays
- Health & Pharma
- December 8, 2020, 08:36
A vaccine considered one of the world’s best hopes for combating coronavirus has become the second to be hit by manufacturing delays. The UK governme(...)

Fauci slams UK drugs regulator for speedy approval of Pfizer vaccine
- Health & Pharma
- December 4, 2020, 07:52
Anthony Fauci, the US government’s top infectious-disease specialist, slammed the UK’s drug regulator, saying that it rushed to clear the Covid-19 vac(...)

Pfizer will start shipping the Covid vaccine it developed with German group BioNTech to the UK next week after its Medicines and Healthcare products R(...)

Covid-19 vaccine distribution could start early in new year, says Donnelly
- Health
- December 3, 2020, 01:48
Distribution of a vaccine for Covid-19 could start in the first weeks of the new year, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has indicated. The Europe(...)

Britain has become the first developed country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine when its regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agen(...)

Oxford Covid vaccine trials offer hope for elderly
- Financial Services
- October 26, 2020, 12:57
A vaccine considered a frontrunner in the race to protect the global population from Covid-19 has produced a robust immune response in elderly people,(...)

Irish company to test vaccines on volunteers deliberately infected with Covid-19
- Health & Pharma
- September 23, 2020, 15:58
Irish company hVivo is to run the world’s first Covid-19 human challenge trials – in which healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with coronavir(...)