Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
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Further Sunday reading to add weight to our positions.
Covid-19 treatments could be fast-tracked through a new national clinical trial initiative that aims to accelerate the development of new drugs for patients hospitalised with the illness, in order to reduce the time taken to set up clinical studies for new therapies from months to weeks.
The programme, known as the Accelerating Covid-19 Research and Development platform (ACCORD), aims to examine the effectiveness of repurposed medicines, potential new drugs, and as yet unlicensed therapies in treating coronavirus. If positive results are seen, these drugs will advance rapidly into the large-scale trials currently in progress across the country, such as the RECOVERY trial. Announcing the news at the daily Covid-19 press conference, Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Han****, said: “Currently no drugs in the world have been clinically proven to treat Covid-19. But our Therapeutics Taskforce has identified a number of promising candidates. Currently, 6 different treatments have been entered into national clinical trials and the first is ready to enter the next stage: a new early phase clinical trial platform that we are launching today.
“This is a national effort made possible by government, academia and industry working together.” Through the Therapeutic Taskforce, the life science sector can suggest potential drugs or molecules that could be tested through the ACCORD platform. Data will be open source and freely available to enable global knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Also an interesting PDF on investment in Life Sciences:
http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2018-1208/BEIS_Life_Sciences_Sector_Deal.pdf
Thanks
The long term effects are very serious. I read recently that a number of people had serious kidney damage and were now forced onto diallysis. So a little life changing for them. I returned from SIngapore in January and went down with what I feel was CV19 though it was fairly mild so I didn't think too much of it at the time. However I had a shortness of breath which really slowed me down and months later feel I still have it though much reduced it seems to come and go. Hopefully one day SNG001 will clear that up for me if it perists.
Great stuff WedME.
As part of the consultation on The Human Medicines (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020, draft regulations were published. The introductory section of the regulations, and regulation 1, suggest the regulations are going to come into effect in October.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/912858/covid-and-flu-draft-statutory-instrument.pdf
Strikes me that this would be a good time for the UK government to announce another safe, well-tolerated treatment for Covid that can be used alongside dexamethasone, the corticosteroid recommended by the RECOVERY trial.
There is a Nature communication from 2018 suggesting that it may be possible to reverse the impairment of "innate and acquired antiviral immune responses" caused by a (different) corticosteroid through treatment with interferon beta, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04574-1
This won't be news to Synairgen because one of the authors is a consultant to the company.
I know there's still a lot of uncertainty, but it's starting to feel like SNG001 may be the right drug, in the right place, at the right time.
It certainly has been a bit all over the place so far.
Hopefully there is a lot going on behind the scenes that will include Synairgen being able to roll out SNG001 to prevent/help to stop this bl***y virus and other viruses.
I hope there is a plan behind the scenes.......So poor to date.....!
I posted a while back that I think there will be a surprise when RM
finally reveals the way forward.....I doubt Boris has the imagination
and Hanc*** certainly does not...But maybe RM has put together a package
for the UK with the manufacturing and distribution sorted....possibly with Vectura.
so all Boris has to do is say yes.......The time is nigh.....Then the world can
look on as British Industry saves the day....The Press will be all over the story
and then our US Pharma can step in and roll out the same worldwide....
Or something along those lines...IMVHO..........!!!
GLA!
Hi all
Some superb research to see on here this weekend. @Wedme, doff of the proverbial cap to you for that work!
The potential for long term damage from Covid has been on my mind (and am sure same for many reading here) for ages. There was a lot of comment in news reports, even back in the early days of the pandemic, about significant organ damage in survivors. If this damage is indeed potentially going on silently, even in mild/asymptomatic cases then that is really further proof that we need something to stop that can treat Covid in the masses.
Also noted the Vectura angle that has cropped up. Is a plan coming together behind the scenes?