Could a pain-free vaccine patch be used to immunise people against Covid-19?
Vaccine patch technology works by delivering hundreds of microneedles to the skin, and may provide a more convenient…
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Senior UK health leader on why ‘creating health’ must be top of agenda post-coronavirus
09 Jul 20The former senior civil servant believes a decade of austerity has cut through health and social infrastructure, with…
UK needs better PPE stockpiles for future pandemics, Conservative MP told
12 Jun 20Conservative MP Dan Poulter has admitted the NHS needs to have reserve capacity in future
Moderna timeline: How the biotech firm has moved alongside pharma giants in Covid-19 vaccine race
09 Jun 20Alongside Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca, Moderna was recently selected as a Covid-19 vaccine "finalist" in…
Six ways Covid-19 has impacted medical device markets
08 Jun 20The majority of surgeries have been given less priority due to Covid-19, while other medical device markets have…
How the University of Oxford is leading the Covid-19 fight on multiple fronts
22 May 20As well as developing its own Covid-19 vaccine candidate, the University of Oxford is leading multiple trials to…
Hand sanitiser, Covid-19 and the future market: Will the product become part of everyday life?
20 May 20Chemicals company Ineos is one business that sees its future in the hand sanitiser market, and it will…
Spartan Covid-19 test recall highlights ‘challenges’ of rapid device approvals
14 May 20Spartan voluntarily recalled 5,500 of its Covid-19 testing products at the start of May due to concerns raised…
Fitbit data isn’t accurate enough for detecting coronavirus symptoms, claims analyst
12 May 20Fitbit has teamed up with The Scripps Research Institute and Stanford Medicine for a study using wearable devices…
Seven technological innovations coming forward to tackle Covid-19
07 May 20Virus-tracking software company BlueDot was one of the first organisations to alert governments and private businesses to Covid-19,…