region has accused russian forces of targeting ukrainian positions and moscow installed officials in occupied parts of ukraine have accused the defending forces of doing exactly the same. it is clear that fighting is continuing to stop vladimir putin had said that he wanted to call this 36 hour ceasefire to allow 0rthodox christians to celebrate christmas. it is clear from the early signs that this is forming more a part of the information war rather than a meaningful gesture of goodwill. james waterhouse, thank you. thousands of people with cancer could be given a personalised vaccine treatment which uses the same technology that s in current covid jabs. the hope is it could either stop the cancer spreading or prevent it from coming back. it s still in its early stages, but is happening because of an agreement between the uk government and the german pharma company biontech. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh is here to explain. vaccines using messenger rna
begin their second 48 hour strike this week. only around 20% of britain s usual services are expected to run during the action. it comes as the government pushes ahead with new laws, which would allow employers to sue some unions if they don t provide minimum levels of service. thousands of nhs cancer patients could receive personalised vaccine treatments, as the result of an agreement between the uk government and german pharmaceutical company biontech. the aim is to accelerate research using the same technology found in current covid vaccines. our medical editor fergus walsh has this report. if you ve had a covid booster, it will have been a messenger rna vaccine. these work by prompting the immune system to recognise and attack coronavirus. cancer vaccines work along the same lines, unmasking tumour cells so they can be destroyed. but cancer is a much tougher nut to crack than covid.
china was not ready for this. look at the reasons why it held onto the zero covert policy for so long. medical instructor capacity was not there, especially in more rural parts of the country, in addition to that, relatively low vaccination rates, especially among vulnerable populations like the elderly. if they were vaccinated, they were vaccinated with china s homegrown vaccines, which have a measure of efficacy but they are not targeted to deal with the omicron variant like messenger rna vaccines are. pfizer biontech shipped a collection of vaccines to china, intended for the german ex-pat population there. there are people happy the opening is taking place,
Moderna and Merck jointly announced Tuesday progress on a drug combination to fight the recurrence of melanoma, a deadly skin cancer. The potential vaccine is formed by combining messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and Merck’s cancer immunotherapy drug Keytruda.