In cities, we stand silent in buses and train carriages, ignoring each other. Online, we retreat into silos and carefully create who we interact with. In politics, we are increasingly consumed by a fear of people we’ve never met. But imagine what if strangers, long believed to be the cause of our problems, were actually…
The Darkest hour of Pandemic arrived on September 21, 2020 for Jeremy Farrar, a global expert in infectious disease control, one of the UK’s leading scientists, head of the Wellcome Trust, and a member of the SAGE emergency committee, describes how it feels as one of the key scientists at the sharp end of a…
Competition authorities in the UK gave green light in Astra Zeneca’s $39bn takeover deal of US giant Alexion Pharmaceuticals delivering the British pharma a lucrative portfolio of immunology and a towering presence in rare diseases. Astra Zeneca on Wednesday announced the completion of its Alexion acquisition, a week after securing a pivotal nod from UK’s…
StHumans rely on plants to change consciousness to stimulate calm, or completely after the qualities of our mental experience. Michael Pollen explores three very different drugs – Opium, caffeine and mescaline and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief, exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around…
Johnson & Johnson announced voluntary recall of five aerosol sunscreens due to low levels of Benzene, which can cause cancer with repeated exposure. The company issued a statement announcing a voluntary recall and urged customers to discard the products if they had already purchased them. The Neutrogena aerosol sunscreens that have been recalled are…
Philip Morris International, one of world’s biggest tobacco companies who sells 50 billion cigarettes a year under Marlboro, Chesterfield and L&H, lodged a bid for Vectira, a UK inhaler maker, whose 200-strong scientists based in Cambridge and Chippenham devise inhalers for respiratory drugs. Vectra’s board led by chairman Bruno Angelici, a former international president of…
Dr Seuj Kumar Senapati, a junior doctor and his second day at work at a Covid care centre in Hojai district in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, checked a patient who had been admitted that morning found unresponsive. The furious patient’s family started hurling chairs, breaking windows and abusing staff when they learned their relative…
Covid-19 killed millions already, hundred of millions of people are impoverished, and economic prospects across are being ruined, with death and recession to forefront. Rescue from Global Crisis is about how Covid19 rescue humanity. Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford, details an optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 which has…
The first new treatment of Alzheimer’s disease for nearly 20 years has been approved by regulators in the United States clearing the way for its use in the UK. Aducanumab targets amyloid, a protein that forms abnormal; crumps in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s that can damage cells and trigger dementia, communication issues, memory…
A 25-year-old Malian woman Halima Cisse has given birth to nine babies ( nonuplets) in Morocco. “ I am very happy, My wife and the babies ( five girls and four boys) are doing well,” the proud father said. Halima Cisse beat a woman who had eight babies in the US in 2009, two sets…