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Cannabis vaporiser firm hails ‘pivotal moment’ amid £23m London float Kanabo makes medical-grade vaporisers which use cartridges using liquids derived from cannabis plants (Kanabo/PA) An Israeli-founded medical cannabis firm has hailed a “pivotal moment” for the sector as it edges nearer to its float on the London stock exchange. Kanabo, which makes vaporisers using a cannabis component, was among a raft of firms competing to become the first cannabis-related business to list in London after city regulators gave a green light last month. Last week, MGC Pharmaceuticals and David Beckh...

We all know by now that the gloomsters were wrong. Mumps was previously the fastest effort ever, from virus to vaccine in four years. This time around, it took just months. But while the speed of discovery and the 90 per cent-plus demonstrations of efficacy will play a key role in ending this pandemic, the development of a whole new way of making vaccines could also prevent future outbreaks. At the Future Vaccine Manufacturing Hub, Imperial College London, Zoltan Kis says RNA vaccines will "make humanity safer". They work not in the traditional method of injecting people with an inactive ve...

How the coronavirus pandemic will transform healthcare Despite Covid’s dreadful toll, this crisis has also driven some extraordinary medical breakthroughs 27 December 2020 • 5:00pm Margaret Keenan was the first patient in the UK to receive the Covid vaccine Credit: Jacob King/PA Historians looking back on 2020 may well write it off as a medical catastrophe – a year of infamy to rank along 1918’s Spanish Flu; a modern plague to rival that of 1665. “Great fears of the Sickenesse here in the City,” Pepys wrote in April that year. “God preserve us all.” But alongside Covid’s dre...