Covid UK: Oxford University to trial giving AstraZeneca vaccine as a nasal spray

Oxford University to trial giving AstraZeneca Covid vaccine as a nasal spray with the hope it will trigger a better and faster immune response in the lungs Oxford university is looking for 30 adults to receive vaccine through nasal spray Trials could begin next week and are expected to last four months  Trial follows announcements that … Read more

Oxford University to trial giving AstraZeneca Covid vaccine as a nasal spray

Oxford University to trial giving AstraZeneca Covid vaccine as a nasal spray with the hope it will trigger a better and faster immune response in the lungs Oxford university is looking for 30 adults to receive vaccine through nasal spray Trials could begin next week and are expected to last four months  Trial follows announcements that … Read more

Pfizer launches first clinical trial of PILL to treat COVID-19 orally

Pfizer launches first clinical trial of a PILL to treat COVID-19 that prevents the virus from making copies of itself inside human cells Pfizer Inc has launched early-stage human trials of an experimental oral drug to treat coronavirus called PF-07321332 It belongs to a class of drugs called protease inhibitors, which would inhibit an enzyme … Read more

Pfizer launches first clinical trial of a PILL to treat COVID-19

Pfizer launches first clinical trial of a PILL to treat COVID-19 that prevents the virus from making copies of itself inside human cells Pfizer Inc has launched early-stage human trials of an experimental oral drug to treat coronavirus called PF-07321332 It belongs to a class of drugs called protease inhibitors, which would inhibit an enzyme … Read more

AstraZeneca is accused of providing ‘outdated’ information from its US vaccine trial

US health chiefs have accused AstraZeneca of sending ‘outdated information’ as part of an application to get its Covid vaccine approved for use on Americans. The company, which is making Oxford University’s jab, revealed yesterday that a US-specific trial found the vaccine prevented 100 per cent of hospital admissions and deaths from Covid and said … Read more

How the trial of former police officer charged with murder of George Floyd is already a TV circus

‘Fasten your seat belts, folks!’ exclaimed the excited television presenter. ‘Our teams will be live for every moment.’ If viewers had not known otherwise, they might have thought they were watching the build-up to a Super Bowl final.  But this was Court TV – and what was being shown was live coverage of the most … Read more

Judge sensationally halts murder trial over heiress who mysteriously drowned

The trial of a failed property developer accused of drowning his wife to cash in on life insurance policies worth £3.5million collapsed yesterday – to the anguish of her family. Donald McPherson, 47, was cleared of killing Paula Leeson despite 17 separate pieces of circumstantial evidence which created ‘clear and obvious suspicion against the defendant’. … Read more

Two thugs who killed four children in petrol bomb attack stand trial for murder of their mother

Two thugs have gone on trial in Salford for the murder of a woman who died 20 months after a petrol bomb attack that claimed the lives of her children. Manchester Crown Court heard how Zak Bolland, 26, and David Worrall, 28, launched the arson attack on December 11, 2017, while feuding with the 16-year-old … Read more

See you in COURT! Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy will take their ‘Wagatha Christie’ war to trial

Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy will take their ‘Wagatha Christie’ war to the high court after failing to settle the libel row at a mediation today – with the loser facing a £1.6million legal bill.  Queen’s Bench Master Eastman told lawyers for the two women that a full trial could take place before next April. … Read more

Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, faces four-week trial over Sarah Everard murder

A police officer charged with the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard faces a four-week trial at the Old Bailey. Pc Wayne Couzens, 48, is accused of snatching the 33-year-old marketing executive as she walked home from a friend’s flat in Clapham, south London, on the evening of March 3. Couzens appeared via video link for … Read more