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Fourth booster ‘significantly’ increases protection

Fourth Covid-19 jabs give people protection “over and above” that afforded to people who have had three jabs, a new study suggests. Research is continuing to assess the levels of protection people have after vaccination, and for the length of time ...

10 May 2022 at 00:55

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Tuberculosis infected eight million people last year – most WHO has ever tracked

More than eight million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organisation has said, the highest number recorded since the UN health agency began keeping track. About 1.25 million people died of TB last year, the new ...

30 Oct 2024 at 07:46

Whitty ‘unsure’ if shielding should be used in future pandemics

England’s chief medical officer has told the Covid-19 Inquiry he is “unsure” if shielding should be used as a measure to protect clinically vulnerable people in future pandemics. Speaking at the probe in London on Thursday, Professor Sir Chris ...

26 Sept 2024 at 14:49

Bird flu vaccine deal agreed to bolster pandemic preparedness

The Government has struck a deal for more than five million doses of a vaccine for a strain of bird flu to ensure the UK is prepared for any possible future pandemic. There is no evidence at this stage that the influenza A(H5N1) virus – which ...

03 Dec 2024 at 13:50

Threat of untreatable gonorrhoea ‘could be tackled with meningitis vaccine’

An existing meningitis vaccine could be used to help protect against gonorrhoea amid rising global cases and growing bacterial resistance to drugs, a new study suggests Gonorrhoea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) which, if untreated,...

13 Apr 2022 at 00:55

Record number of travel-linked typhoid cases

Typhoid and paratyphoid cases linked to travel have reached an all-time high, health officials have said. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has urged people to make sure they have done all they can to prevent infections linked to travel ...

11 Jun 2025 at 10:30

‘Taking metformin after positive test reduces risk of long Covid’ – trial

Taking a common diabetes medication after testing positive for coronavirus may reduce the risk of obese and overweight people developing long Covid by 40%, new research suggests. The study found that 6.3% of people who took metformin, a ...

08 Jun 2023 at 23:30

Covid jabs ‘saved 20 million lives in one year’

Around 20 million lives around the world were saved thanks to the Covid-19 jabs in the first year of the vaccine programme, according to new estimates. The first ever Covid-19 jab outside a clinical trial was administered in the UK to ...

24 Jun 2022 at 00:30

Digital tools to use climate data to better predict infectious disease outbreaks

New digital tools will use climate data to better predict and prepare for infectious diseases outbreaks. Wellcome is supporting global research to address these urgent health threats, with funding for 24 research teams in 12 ...

03 Feb 2023 at 00:01

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 ...

04 Nov 2024 at 21:47

New malaria vaccine could drastically reduce child deaths, say scientists

Malaria booster vaccine shows durable efficacy, study suggests

A malaria vaccine created by Oxford researchers “is really exciting” and could contribute towards drastically reducing the number of children who die from the infection, experts suggest. A new study reports on the ...

08 Sept 2022 at 09:13

New RSV jab could prevent thousands of older people dying, researchers say

The lives of thousands of elderly people in the UK could be saved each year by a new vaccine that protects against a respiratory virus, according to a study. It could also help free up thousands GP appointments ...

25 Sept 2024 at 00:05

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