Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Getty Images An annual injection designed to guard against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has completed an important early safety trial, researchers report in The Lancet medical journal. Lenacapavir stops the virus from replicating inside cells. If future trials go well – now it has passed the first, Phase … Read more
BBC Ray says he feels “lucky” to have had access to the drug via the NHS, especially now he is a granddad to Willow Ray, 62 from south London, became one of the first patients to receive the weight-loss jab Wegovy on the NHS last year and has lost 14kg (just over two stone) in … Read more
A 7-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly kidnapped and raped while returning home from school after giving her half-yearly exam in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district. According to the police, she was allegedly kidnapped and raped by an unidentified man when she was walking home through a stretch of farmland located between the bus stop and her home. The … Read more
Larry Lowe Larry Lowe struggles with everyday tasks such as walking On 15 December 2021 Larry Lowe’s life changed. He was 54, rarely ill, fit, healthy and running 10km most days – until he got the Pfizer Covid booster. Within days he developed numbness in the right side of his face and started experiencing pain. … Read more
Michelle Sword told the BBC she was “heartbroken” that she had “done something so stupid” A mother of two who nearly died after taking a fraudulent weight loss injection is urging others to be careful about what they buy online. Michelle Sword, 46, from Carterton, Oxfordshire, ordered the slimming drug from an online beauty company … Read more
Getty Images A vaccination programme to protect newborn babies and older people against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is being rolled out in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday, following a similar scheme in Scotland. RSV is one of the common viruses that causes coughs and colds in winter, but it can cause severe and … Read more
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday strongly rebuked former President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on her handling of border security, accusing him of undermining a bipartisan effort to strengthen the US-Mexico border. In her first major interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris blamed Trump for the very border security issues he has … Read more
The jab could reduce heart attack and stroke risks regardless of the amount of weight people lose. Source link
People eligible for the free vaccine in England, including everyone aged over 74, can book from Monday. Source link
These youngsters would have been eligible for a jab when the vaccination rates began to fall in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Take up of the MMR jab started to drop following a 1998 report by Andrew Wakefield which falsely linked the jab with autism, according to a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) 2023 … Read more