RECOVERY Result: Monoclonal antibody combination reduces deaths for hospitalised patients with COVID-19 who haven't produced antibodies for themselves. Mortality reduced by one-fifth (30% -> 24%) A new treatment for the sickest patients! Pre-print submitted - out later today

Monoclonals are effective in COVID - The dose of mAbs is x1000 greater in mAb therapy than with convalescent plasma – so high abs effective if patient has no antibodies of their own mAbs cuts deaths among patients with no Covid antibodies theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…

Great win! Great performance! Great headline! Roberts got a goal in a thrilling, nervy victory that will almost certainly earn Wales a berth in the last 16 Turkey 0-2 Wales: Euro 2020 theguardian.com/football/live/…

Congrats to Emanuele William Astle Sara Trompeter Simon Stanworth nick gleadall Mihaela van der Schaar-one of the winners in Round 2 of the Accelerated Access Collaborative @NHSX National Institute for Health and Care Research #AIAward, receiving funding through #NHSAILab. Find out more here:tinyurl.com/4dewnbhp #ArtificialIntelligence

Great work from the plasma programme in setting up plasma collection to make immunoglobulins Plasma from blood donors in England to be used for life-saving medicine theguardian.com/society/2021/a…

Vax is word of the year and deservedly so after our transforming lives after CoviD P. NA Thanks to the vaxxers!! bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

A 12 minute read from Nature highlighting the grim reality of the present climate situation. We are we doing enough? Despite 30 years of climate diplomacy, urgent and aggressive action is needed to halt global warming. nature.com/immersive/d415… via nature

Lots to do in improving care for SCD across the NHS Sickle cell disease inquiry finds ‘serious care failings’ in NHS Fihttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/15/sickle-cell-disease-inquiry-finds-serious-care-failings-in-nhs

Decision makers need constantly updated evidence synthesis nature.com/articles/d4158… Living reviews - the new normal? Yes - looks very much like it!

Drawing on the UK’s strengths as a global leader in science, England’s first Rare Diseases Action Plan launched today includes £40 million of new funding for the NIHR BioResource to further their work in characterising and understanding rare diseases: nihr.ac.uk/news/millions-…

Not a good week for autocrats.....Ukraine has been inspiring and humbling... Why Vladimir Putin has already lost this war | Yuval Noah Harari theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'Rare' diseases are important and tractable -weclome NIHR plans! •Improvements to newborn screening •Developing a toolkit for virtual consultations •Supporting access to new treatments •Monitoring uptake to ensure equal access to treatment •Pilot new treatments

Nuffield report sadly highlights chronic underfunding and vulnerability in NHS inspire of massive work during pandemic NHS at risk of taking longer to recover from pandemic than other health systems ft.com/content/667a23…

Large genetic case control study 7000 cases shows 15+ variants associated with severe disease and so suggests pathways leading to severe disease low antiviral interferon signalling (interferon receptors) and pulmonary inflammation and clotting #COVID19 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Many congratulations to Su Brailsford @BrailsfordSu on receiving the Kenneth Goldsmith award at British Blood Transfusion Society #BBTS for her outstanding work on donor selection guidelines

Advancing public health....NHS Blood+Transplant will support donors to enroll in #OurFutureHealth starting early 2024 Our Future Health: How you can join the world’s largest experiment in ‘living well longer’ telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Really amazing to be part of the RESTORE team! We have actually started this trial and at least two participants have received lab grown red blood cells! Thank you to all Clinical trial participants for RESTORE - we couldn’t do this without you! #labgrownblood

January 27, 2023 marks the 78th International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Today, Humanity in Action pays tribute to those victims of persecution. To learn more, you can watch our animated documentary trilogy ➡️ bit.ly/3QZFBdr

World first: NHS test to improve donor matching for blood disorders: thelimbic.com/uk/haematology… NHSBT to tgenotype blood and platelet groups in all with haemoglobinopathy to allow better matched products for #SickleCell, #Thalassaemia and Rare Inherited #Anaemias

Zelenskiy condemns attack on blood transfusion centre as ‘war crime’ theguardian.com/world/2023/aug… What can we say? In times of armed conflict, international humanitarian law (IHL) provides rules to protect access to health care.#UkraineUnderAttack #HealthCare World Health Organization (WHO)