Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.
NHS Digital
00:26 NHS App and your NHS account
Gov.UK: Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE)
ACE, part of “Homeland Security” at the Home Office
Accelerated Capability Environment blog
Australia-Canada-Singapore-Switzerland-United Kingdom (Access) Consortium
Express: NHS patients on fast track to get breakthrough drugs approved by foreign regulators
Telegraph: GPs urged to trial experimental drugs on patients
Pulse Today: GPs could be incentivised via QOF to join clinical trials
Following EU exit, there is an opportunity for the UK to regulate healthcare product development differently. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021 paves the way for this
Public Health Genomics—Enabling Science in Health
10:27 PHG Foundation
PHG Foundation—YouTube
Video: Making science work for health | Dr Dame June Raine on how regulators are supporting innovation
What is pharmacogenomics?
Using Genes to Guide Prescriptions—posted 18 October 2013 (!)
British Pharmacological Society: Using pharmacogenomics to improve patient outcomes
MoD Propaganda
23:30 Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine—31 May 2023
Chief of Defence Intelligence, Adrian Bird, spoke at a RUSI event
Chief of Defence Intelligence RUSI webinar May 2023
At Windsor Castle, sailors and members of the Royal Marines Band Service received Royal Victorian Order honours from His Majesty The King
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Situation
29:35 IAEA—International Atomic Energy Agency
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in southeastern Ukraine is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the ten largest in the world
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has expressed alarm over the recent power outage at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine
Tension mounts in run up to UN Security Council meeting on Zaporizhia NPP
TASS: Five people killed, 15 injured in Ukrainian artillery strike on Vasilyevka
Council on Foreign Relations: How much aid has the U.S. sent Ukraine? Here are six charts
Victoria Nuland spills the beans on Ukraine
Mobilizing Private Investment for the Reconstruction of Ukraine
Video: Julie Monaco (Thanks to viewer Linda for helping to identify) MD, Global Head Public Sector, Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory
Debi Evans Blog: 30th May 2023
Sarah Ferguson, Epstein’s Driver and the Housekeeper
43:32 Daily Mail: Jeffrey Epstein's private diary reveals he met with Sarah Ferguson at his Manhattan mansion
Ofgem, Enabling Obscene Energy Prices
44:38 Energy regulator Ofgem has today (Thursday 25 May 2023) announced its quarterly update to the energy price cap for the period 1 July – 30 September 2023
Covid Vaccines: History Trying To Repeat Itself
47:03 NBC: China faces a new Covid wave that could peak at 65 million cases a week
Regulatory approval of Covid–19 Vaccine SKYCovion
SKYCovione Covid–19 Vaccine:
The vaccine consists of GBP510 with the AS03 adjuvant. GBP510 is a self-assembling two-component protein nanoparticle that displays 60 copies of the receptor binding domain (RBD) of SARS–CoV–2 Spike
The Korea Herald: Gates Foundation donates US$4.9 mln to SK's vaccine project
U.S. AFRICOM leader admits to Congressman Gaetz, coup leaders “share core values” with U.S. military
Core Values–Africa Knows What The Ukraine War Is About
56:53 LGBT activists act like dogs and bark at Catholic organization volunteers in Warsaw (N.B.: this clip is not new)
ANC Secretary-General: “Putin is a head of state. South Africa can't arrest a head of state”
Julius Malema to BBC: “I would give weapons to Russia to fight imperialism”
The Irish Times: Nato peacekeeping troops hurt as ethnic Serbs clash with police in Kosovo
BBC: Serbia sends troops to border after Kosovo clashes