Wellcome Trust
Leading scientist Jeremy Farrar warns the disease will "not be done by Christmas".
Sage member Sir Jeremy Farrar says the UK is on a "knife edge" and must get prepared for a second wave later this year.
Jeremy Farrar says lockdown could be lifted in four weeks' time.
The Departure Lounge project wants people to get more comfortable talking about the end of life. The initiative, made by the Academy of Medical Sciences in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust, invites visitors to find out more about end-of-life provisions such as will-writing and treatment wishes. The project took over a store unit inside Lewisham shopping centre, in south-east London.
Britain's Wellcome Trust global health charity is injecting £80 million into new research about treating snake bites, calling it a “hidden health crisis”. Snake bites kill 120,000 people a year and up to 400,000 people suffer life-changing injuries form bites, including amputations. Researchers point to the over 100-year-old process of making antivenom which is expensive and unreliable. The trust hopes the money will lead to some new innovations around the treatment and accessibility of treating snake bites, which overwhelmingly affect the poorest communities in Africa, Asia and South America.
The charity says it will stop funding anyone accused of inappropriate behaviour.
In 1950, Brits drank an average of 3.9 litres of pure alcohol per person. Then, in 1960, it begins to creep upward. The upward trajectory ends in 1980, but that turns out to be temporary. By the late 1990s consumption is rising rapidly again. Come Peak Booze, in 2004, we were drinking 9.5 litres of alcohol per person - the equivalent of more than 100 bottles of wine.