Food Standards Agency background briefing on food safety in the UK after Brexit
As the UK forges new trade relationships, how can we be sure that the standard of our food will be upheld? This briefing provided information...
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expert reaction to preprint giving the final results from round 9 of the REACT-1 study on COVID-19 prevalence in England
A preprint, an unpublished non-peer reviewed study, reports on the latest data from the REACT-1 study on COVID-19 spread across England. Dr Simon Clarke, Associate...
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Updated latest results from the REACT-1 study on COVID-19 prevalence across England
We recently heard from the REACT-1 scientists with interim results from round 9 of their study looking at virus prevalence across England. They now have...
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expert reaction to the 2021 Spring Budget
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has today announced the Spring Budget for 2021. Prof Sir Jim McDonald FREng, President, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), said: Read...
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expert reaction to study on fossil CO2 emissions
A study published in Nature Climate Change looks at Fossil CO2 emissions in the post COVID-19 era. Prof Richard Pancost, Professor of Biogeochemistry at the...
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Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID era
Five years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change, growth in global CO2 emissions has begun to falter. A new study published...
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expert reaction to preprint assessing the effectiveness of the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in prevention of hospitalisations in elderly and frail adults
A preprint, an unpublished non-peer reviewed study, assesses the effectiveness of one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines against hospitalisations in the over...
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More evidence on whether the COVID vaccines work
The AvonCAP study from Bristol is a prospective test negative case control study of pneumonia in adults admitted to two large NHS hospitals. Scientists have...
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expert comment on latest NHS England hospital death numbers
Deaths of patients who have died in hospitals in England and had either tested positive for COVID-19 or where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death...
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expert comment on variants of SARS-CoV-2
A general comment from Dr Jeffrey Barrett on what we know about the different SARS-CoV-2 variants variants (including the South African, Brazilian and Kent variants)....
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New guidance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) – Perplexing Presentations (PP) and Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) in Children
Fabricated or induced illness by carers (FII) is a clinical situation in which a child is, or likely to be, harmed due to the parent’s...
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The Brazil SARS-CoV-2 variant (Lineage P.1) – what we know so far
The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern Lineage P.1 is growing rapidly in Brazil, and several cases have now also been confirmed in the UK. A...
