Researchers found that clots occurring after first dose of Oxford jab affected otherwise young and healthy peopleCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAlthough extremely rare, a blood clot syndrome after the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine carries a high risk of death and can occur in otherwise young and healthy people, UK researchers have found.In those aged...
Updated guidance comes after a CDC analysis of new safety data, as vaccination rates remain low among pregnant women in the USThe Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention urged all pregnant women Wednesday to get the Covid-19 vaccine as hospitals in hot spots around the US see disturbing numbers of unvaccinated mothers-to-be seriously ill with the virus.Expectant women run a higher higher...
Near-future tale of a woman who accepts a male ‘companion’ robot played by Stevens is laboriously told and not really funny enoughDirected by Maria Schrader, this was a crowd-pleasing favourite at the Berlin film festival earlier this year and its star, Maren Eggert, won the festival’s new gender-neutral best leading performance prize. But I was disappointed with a film whose crises and...
Pfizer reportedly asked to supply 35m more doses, with final go-ahead for this year’s programme still awaitedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMinisters have started ordering vaccines for a booster campaign in autumn 2022, with Pfizer reportedly being asked to supply the UK with a further 35m doses.The government has still not give the final go-ahead for the vaccine...
Critics baulk at the cost of getting Britain to net zero, but the alternative is so much worseRuinous, eye-watering, crippling, stratospheric, massive. That’s the cost to the UK of beating the climate crisis, according to those who portray getting to net zero emissions as economic suicide that is being thrust on an unwilling population by posh eco-fundamentalists and zealots.This is not just...
Exclusive: campaigners say aligning with EU ruling on chemical testing will ‘blow a hole’ in UK leadership on cruelty-free cosmeticsMinisters have opened the door to expanding the use of animal testing to ingredients used in cosmetic products for the first time in 23 years, an animal welfare charity has said.Cruelty Free International (CFI) said animal testing on ingredients exclusively used...
A major UN scientific report has concluded global heating is now irreversible and it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphereA landmark UN climate report has warned that global heating is irreversible and issued its starkest warning that, unless meaningful action is taken to reduce emissions, the world is on course for catastrophic warming. The sixth Intergovernmental Panel on...