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The president of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Albert Bourla, received a positive test for the presence of the coronavirus, which he announced on Twitter.more

Scotland has made public health history by making it the law for public settings to provide period products. more

The UK has become the first country to approve a dual vaccine which tackles both the original Covid virus and the newer Omicron variant. more

Every child aged one to nine in London will be offered a polio vaccine after the virus was repeatedly detected in sewage during routine inspections. more

Many nursing homes will soon no longer be able to accommodate because there is a shortage of carers. If it continues as it is, in the future only rich people will be able to be cared for, said Christine Vogler, chairman of the German Nursing Council, in an interview with the newspaper "Bild am Sonntag".more

Compared to women who eat meat, even occasionally, vegetarians are 33 per cent more likely to suffer a dangerous femoral neck fracture, reports the journal BMC Medicine.more

According to the Italian agency ANSA, local researchers have created an effective vaccine against cancer. The preparation induces an immune response to the tumor, which may increase the effectiveness of already used immunotherapeutic drugs.more

In the publication in Nature, researchers identified 11 key areas in the human genome that are important in the context of susceptibility to coronavirus infection and the course of COVID-19. Among the authors of the publication is a researcher from Poland.more

On Monday 8 August, the Pfeizer company announced that it has started the third phase of clinical trials of a vaccine to protect against the dangerous tick-borne disease Lyme disease. The tests will also be conducted in Poland.more

The number of people waiting in England to start treatment in a public hospital has increased to its highest level since statistics began 15 years ago, the UK NHS NHS said.more

As a result of the activation of anti-vaccine movements during the Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of routine vaccination is declining in many countries, warns Professor Peter J. Hotez in Nature. According to him, vaccination in children and adults is at risk in the US and worldwide.more

Swimmers across the UK have lost access to more than 60 public pools in the last three years, BBC News has found. more

Scientists predict that increasingly warmer nights resulting from observed climate change will increase global mortality rates by up to 60 per cent by the end of the century, reports the journal The Lancet Planetary Health.more

Harmful levels of drinking were normalised through the Covid pandemic, charities and medical staff have said. more

The so-called long Covid comes in three varieties, each associated with different symptoms, say researchers from King's College London (KCL), the findings of which are described by the British Sky News portal. This discovery means that an individual approach is required to treat each type of long Covid.more

The number of people waiting longer than two years for routine operations in England has fallen from 22,500 at the start of the year, to fewer than 200, according to NHS figures. more

Nine in 10 NHS dental practices across the UK are not accepting new adult patients for treatment under the health service, a BBC investigation has found.more

Vitamin K acts as a powerful antioxidant and protects cells from one type of natural death. The discovery could contribute to better treatment of various types of degenerative diseases.more

The NHS in England cannot wait for a new prime minister to appear in order to deal with the crisis, warned Health Minister Steve Barclay. As he added, "many challenges await us in the fall and winter, including the flu season and the next wave of coronavirus."more

1 in 8 Dutch people who have had Covid-19 suffer from long-term health problems, according to a report by the University Medical Center (UMC) in Groningen in the north of the Netherlands. Scientists conducted many months of research on a group of 13 thousand. Dutch residents. The results were published by The Lancet magazine.more

Archie Battersbee, the 12-year-old who had been at the centre of a legal battle between his parents and doctors, has died. His mother, Hollie Dance, said: "Such a beautiful little boy, and he fought right until the very end."more

Archie Battersbee, a 12-year-old English boy who suffered severe brain damage in an unfortunate accident, cannot be transferred from hospital to a hospice as his parents had requested, a court ruled yesterday.more

Covid infections are continuing to fall in the UK, dropping by more than half a million in a week, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). more

Rainwater is already unfit for consumption across the globe, even in areas as little affected by human activity as Antarctica and the Tibetan Highlands, reports the journal 'Environmental Science & Technology'.more

People who have not taken two vaccines and booster doses against coronavirus will get into trouble, warns President Joe Biden's chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci. This will be a problem especially in autumn and winter.more