Category: Merck Pharmaceutical

Waste not, want not?Absolutely. And with such a high volume of used personal protective equipment…

The Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies has endorsed the use of mass lateral flow…

The UK has approved the Moderna covid-19 vaccine and ordered an additional 10 million doses—bringing…

A long awaited investigation led by the World Health Organization into the origins of the…

Two rheumatoid arthritis drugs will now be used to treat the patients with severe covid-19…

Doctors are accustomed to difficulty, to long hours, high stress, heavy responsibility. The job involves…

I read with interest your recent news article on the disproportionate impact of covid-19 on…

Health officials have defended India’s decision to approve a homegrown covid-19 vaccine without efficacy data—a…

Cases of covid-19 have continued to surge in the US as only five million people…

Excess deaths were higher than deaths involving covid-19 in the week leading up to Christmas,…

Why has the government taken the step to delay the second dose?In a letter sent…

bmj;372/jan06_1/n6/FAF1faJeff McLane, courtesy the artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New YorkThe stories of NHS workers…

On 30 December, a month after licensing the Pfizer BioNTech covid-19 vaccine, the UK’s Medicines…

Appleby asks whether covid-19 vaccines would be considered cost effective using the National Institute for…

A new study has launched in the UK to understand the impact of covid-19 on…

The Shkreli Awards for profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare, an annual tribute to the worst…

The covid-19 pandemic has underlined the role now played by general practices in alleviating food…

Doctors volunteering to give the covid-19 vaccine should not have to undertake unnecessary training, such…

The NHS in England faces unprecedented challenges in 2021. It will require an equally unprecedented,…

Hospitals across London and the South East and East of England are struggling to meet…

Healthcare workers in England have been told to reschedule appointments for the second dose of…

Russia’s true death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic is not about 57 000, as…

In The BMJ’s Editor’s Choice article published on 19 November,1 Abbasi details some of the…

Most of England moved into the highest tier of restrictions on 31 December because of…

The UK’s medicines regulator has approved the Oxford and AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine, which will be…

As the streets in Mexico City filled with cars, crowds, and Christmas excitement this December,…

In October the US Food and Drug Administration issued non-binding guidance to manufacturers of covid-19…

Is the new variant more infectious?Yes, according to a review of the current evidence by…

The results of the Danmask-191 trial1—which, by conventional interpretation, showed that wearing masks had no…

Interim results from phase III trials of the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford…

Ministers must improve the way they use and communicate advice from scientists or risk repeating…

The covid-19 pandemic might be remembered for the astonishingly rapid development of effective vaccines. But…

The government has published a register listing the interests of expert members of the Scientific…

The Welsh government has broken ranks with the rest of the UK by imposing stronger…

The rapid test kits most widely used in UK universities, schools, and care homes detect…

Bavli and colleagues report that public health interventions against covid-19 are associated with increased rates…

Some GPs are calling the roll out of the Pfizer BioNTech covid-19 vaccine in England…

Since the UK’s first lockdown in March, the government has had one (perhaps only one)…

The government must rethink its plans for easing covid-19 restrictions over Christmas and be far…

Health officials in Sweden have warned that intensive care units (ICUs) in and around Stockholm…

A leading epidemiologist has urged the government not to put the UK capital into strict…

The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) independent panel of experts voted on 10 December…

Abbasi1 and Gill2 rightly criticise the government’s unevaluated coronavirus mass testing plan and the appointment…

Although the number of positive tests for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) across…

A former covid-19 data analyst for the state of Florida, who was fired after claiming…

As the first wave of covid-19 vaccination gets under way, the need for good communication…

The Oxford and AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine prevented some asymptomatic covid-19 infections in phase III trials,…

bmj;371/dec09_3/m4753/FAF1faRichard SmithThis year The BMJ’s appeal is supporting the Independent Food Aid Network, a charity…