GSK aims for one billion doses of booster as Covid-19 vaccine race heats up
GSK, the world's largest vaccine maker, laid out plans on Thursday (May 28) to produce one billion doses of vaccine efficacy boosters for Covid-19...
RPS releases guide for care home pharmacy teams
In a bid to ensure safe and effective patient care in care homes, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has published a new training resource...
AstraZeneca may consider exposing vaccine trial participants to virus
The chief executive of AstraZeneca , which is developing a leading coronavirus vaccine with Oxford University, said it is too early to deliberately expose...
BREAKING: PSNC secures ‘another stop-gap measure’ as community pharmacy gets £50m more of advance funding to alleviate cashflow issues
The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committe (PSNC) has secured a further £50 million of advance funding into community pharmacies at the end of May.
According PSNC, the...
Pandemic H1N1 flu vaccine has no link to sleep disorder: GSK
British drugmaker GSK said on Thursday (May 28) that its previous flu pandemic vaccine, which used some of the same ingredients as Covid-19 vaccines...
Broken funding system is incapable of sustaining community pharmacy beyond 2020: ex NPA chair
By Ian Strachan
Cash flow is now terminal, with over 50 per cent of community pharmacies operating in deficit.
Unless there is an immediate injection of...
UK employers should pay wages of those asked to isolate by COVID-19 trace system, minister says; no info yet on how it impacts community...
British employers should pay the wages of anyone told to stay at home by England’s COVID-19 test and trace system, British health minister Matt...
Coronavirus contact tracing to start on Thursday
The new coronavirus contact tracing scheme will launch tomorrow (May 28) across England, the government has announced.
It is hoped that the NHS Test and...
‘COPCOV’ hydroxychloroquine trial paused: MHRA
An international hydroxychloroquine trial led by the University of Oxford has been paused, Britain's pharmaceutical regulator said on Wednesday (May 27), less than a week...
Anti-viral drug effective against Covid-19: Study
Anti-viral drug remdesivir cuts recovery times in coronavirus patients, according to the full results of a trial published Friday night (May 22), three weeks...
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