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Almost three and a half years after 82-year-old Brian Pinker became the first person to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid, the jab has been withdrawn globally.

Doctors fought on the front line of Covid, but now they aren't even given a fair pay deal - they were ripping up bin bags for PPE while the government was handing out multi-million-pound contracts to their friends

Experts believe that Disease X could result in 20 times more deaths than Covid - as it appears on WHO's shortlist of priority diseases, along with viruses like SARS, Ebola and Zika

The pharmaceutical firm reported pre-tax profits of £5.5 billion for 2023, up from £1.8 billion the previous year

Big bosses like pharmaceuticals chief Pascal Soriot and weapons manufacturer Charles Woodburn earn over a hundred times more per hour than what an average worker can make in a whole year

Julie Woodington, 56, from, Bristol, said she is going to have to sell her home to fund the treatment for her lung cancer, which is approved in the EU and the US - but not in the UK

The world's largest vaccine maker, Serum Institute of India (SII), agreed to send 10million doses at the very start of the rollout as a token of gratitude for the Oxford vaccine

Jamie Scott, aged 47, is taking AstraZeneca to the High Court over its Covid-19 vaccine which he alleges caused a rare blood clotting condition after he was injected

Singer Will Young appeared on Sky News on Tuesday morning to urge viewers to sign a petition against animal testing

The UK's blue chip index has dropped nearly 100 points with housebuilders among the stocks seeing the biggest losses

The blue-chip index was boosted by gains for pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca while BP and Shell saw another positive day of trading

The average FTSE 100 chief executive netted £3.91million in 2022 which was the highest in five years after jumping from £3.41million in 2021, according to think tank the High Pay Centre

The Shadow Health Secretary added he was lucky he survived his own scare after kidney cancer was picked up by chance, aged 38

Dr Stephen Wright from Sevenoaks, Kent, was among the earliest groups of people to be given the vaccine during the pandemic - he died 10 days later

Lisa Shaw's husband Gareth Eve is suing AstraZeneca for answers after the death of the BBC presenter who became unwell from taking her first Covid jab as he says he wants "answers"

The husband of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw, who died at the age of 44 from rare complications following her first Covid jab, is part of a group of claimants who have lost relatives

Claire Spragg was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer and discovered she carried the faulty BRCA2 gene. She was able to take a year's supply of olaparib, which is now available on the NHS

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, 47, opted for a double mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA gene, but the olaparib drug targets cancers by stopping tumour cells from repairing their DNA

Under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, those harmed by the coronavirus jab get a £120,000 payment but thousands are still waiting for their claims to be assessed

The average chief executive of a FTSE 100 company is on £3.41million a year, according to a think tank. That equates to 103 times more than the £33,000 annual wage of a typical full-time worker