More than 1,500 clinical trials of new drugs and treatments for cancers, heart disease and other serious illnesses have been permanently closed down in Britain in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, a further 9,000 have been suspended and most will need major cash injections if they are to be reactivated.
The figures highlight the catastrophic effect that Covid-19 has had on UK medical research, which has suffered a devastating blow to development of new life-saving treatments. Improvements in disease-survival rates are likely to slow, or stop, while the country’s next generation of researchers will have far fewer opportunities to train and develop fresh clinical expertise.
This article made my heart sink. And it sounds like it's only the UK that's struggling to get research started up again. It's very sad, and worrying, because this will obviously have a long lasting and far reaching impact.
Some trials are still going on. I have a friend who has Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, that has flared up for the third time, she has managed to get onto a trial that starts in a couple of weeks. I do not know if it an existing trial or a new one, all she has said is that she thinks it is immunology based but cannot remember what the drug is called.
A huge amount of money as gone into Covid research. Sadly at the expense of other research. It is annoying that over the past years there have been other Corona virus outbreaks which if there had been adequate funding for further research may have prevented the huge problem we have now The only positive I can think of is that the Covid research may lead to better treatments for lung, heart and kidney conditions etc.
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