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UK vaccine to protect against future pandemics gets backing

A UK-made vaccine to protect people against future pandemics has received global backing worth millions of pounds. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who opened a conference hosted by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in London ...

08 Mar 2022 at 12:55

Crime & Court

Cocaine epidemic warning as Electric Picnic patrons massive sum to court poor box in Laois

Electric Picnic attendees paid out over €50,000 in a single day to avoid drug convictions at Portlaoise District Court. The money was paid to the court poor box after Judge Andrew Cody set aside a special sitting for people caught with drugs at ...

14 Mar 2023 at 21:33

Disease X vaccine ‘could be ready within 100 days of new threat emerging’

A vaccine for a new virus with pandemic potential could be developed in as little as 100 days thanks to groundwork by British scientists. Researchers from the University of Oxford are examining how to adapt the vaccine it created for Covid-19 ...

29 Aug 2023 at 14:41

Scotland

Drug deaths among opioid users more than trebled in past decade, research finds

07 Jun 2023 at 12:46

Two more cases of more transmissible mpox detected in UK

Two more cases of potentially deadly mpox detected in UK

Two more UK cases of a strain of mpox that is thought to spread more easily have been detected in household contacts of the first case, the Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of ...

04 Nov 2024 at 21:47

World

End of OxyContin legal saga in sight as judge approves settlement deal

A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he will approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma’s latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic....

14 Nov 2025 at 18:54

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