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A HUMAN study for whooping cough has been launched in Southampton to test a new vaccine.

The expert panel that advises the Government on its coronavirus vaccination programme has issued its recommendations for booster jabs later this year.

Nose drops of modified 'friendly' bacteria offer protection against meningitis A world-first trial has shown that nose drops of modified 'friendly' bacteria protect against meningitis. Led by Professor Robert Read and Dr Jay Laver from the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre and the University of Southampton, the work is the first of its kind. Together they inserted a gene into a harmless type of a bacteria, that allows it to remain in the nose and trigger an immune response. They then introduced these bacteria into the noses of healthy volunteers via nose drops. The results, publishe...

Boris Johnson is being assailed by a queue of experts warning against the unlocking - with Prof Adam Finn among those entreating him to recognise that the UK is still 'vulnerable'.

The World Health Organisation has announced plans to rename COVID variants with Greek alphabet letters in a bid to lose the 'stigma' of geographic title