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UK’s first ‘asthma bus’ set to provide vital resource to pressured NHS respiratory services as asthma sufferers admit to putting off care during pandemicMore than 1 in 20 (6.7%) asthma sufferers delayed emergency care during the pandemic and over a quarter (27.5%) have avoided receiving treatment f...

COVID vaccine makers AstraZeneca have had another important drug approved that will help cancer patients in Scotland.The pharmaceutical giants, whose

AZ Tagrisso first to win MHRA approval under Project Orbis 7th May 2021 AstraZenecas Tagrisso (osimertinib), a post-surgery treatment for lung cancer, is the first drug to receive approval from the UKs Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) under Project Orbis. Project Orbis is a programme coordinated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore, Brazil and the UK as other participants, which offers a framework for concurrent su...

UK medicines regulator issues its first authorisation under Project Orbis UK medicines regulator issues its first authorisation under Project Orbis for Osimertinib (Tagrisso), a post-surgery treatment for lung cancer. From: 7 May 2021 A post-surgery treatment for lung cancer will be the first to receive an authorisation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) under Project Orbis - only four months after the agency joined the scheme in January 2021. Osimertinib ...

Empty streets in Lowestoft during the Coronavirus lockdown. - Credit: DENISE BRADLEY Business leaders from some of the UK’s biggest firm are calling for the government to back their “national prosperity” plan to boost growth and living standards as Britain recovers from the pandemic. Ten top business figures from the likes of Tesco, AstraZeneca, Vodafone and Royal Dutch Shell have set out a 10-year blueprint for action to help UK industry prosper, address social and economic inequalities ...

The Covid Recovery Commission warns the pandemic has widened social and economic inequalities across Britain.

Ten top business figures from Tesco, AstraZeneca, Vodafone and Shell set out ten-year blueprint for action Covid Recovery Commission want to help UK industry prosper, and address social & economic inequalities They say pandemic has widened inequalities with deprived areas suffering the most from unemployment Commission wants to work with the Government and local civic leaders to tackle so-called levelling up

Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of third wave of infections that could provoke another lockdown German leaders have have agreed to extend restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus until March 7 Infections have started to increase again in Germany with only four per cent of the public vaccinated Countrys biggest newspaper Bild article praised the UKs successful jab drive for enabling end to lockdown  

A vaccine dose delivery schedule published by the Scottish Government in January suggests that officials knew there would be a dip in vaccine supply in February before a spike in availability in March.

In todays coronavirus news, updates on the vaccine programme in the UK and results from a study on former patients