Monthly News Round-Up: June/July
To help discover the most promising COVID-19 therapies, University of Liverpool has joined forces with Southampton Clinical Trials Unit and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to launch AGILE, an innovative COVID-19 drug testing platform. This is a clinical trial platform developed by: Clinical trials specialists and statisticians Infectious diseases clinicians Clinical and preclinical pharmacologists Together,
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Monthly News Round-Up: May/June
A new COVID-19 breathalyser delivers results in 15 seconds Being able to diagnose whether an individual is carrying COVID-19 antibodies could help contain the pandemic. With this in mind, researchers from Ohio State University have come up with a COVID-19 breathalyser that delivers the results in 15 seconds in a boolean fashion (either a positive
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Drug testing in the workplace: can occupational health help?
Did you know that excess alcohol consumption results in the loss of an estimated 17m working days in the UK every year, or that 27% of employers say that misuse of drugs is a problem in their workplace? These are not statistics that can be ignored, but they’re also statistics that haven’t changed much over
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Staying safe in construction: drug and alcohol testing
Construction sites are inherently dangerous places where it’s vital that everyone is alert and focused, yet research by the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) shows that over half of people working on them are concerned that drugs and alcohol are making them still riskier. Over a third say that they have personally seen colleagues trying to
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