GENEVA (Reuters) – A deal on an intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organization may be further off than ever despite Washington’s backing, due to expected scepticism about a new draft, sources close to the talks told Reuters. Negotiations will reopen at the WTO on Monday and will focus on a highly anticipated revised draft submitted […]
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When the pandemic sidelined in-office visits at his practice, Dr. Dael Waxman "wasn't exactly thrilled with being at home." But he quickly shifted gears to video and telephone appointments. Now, he finds, there are good reasons to keep these options open even as in-office visits have resumed and many parts of the country have sharply loosened coronavirus restrictions. One is […]
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Fox News Flash top headlines for June 2 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Jeannie Wells had hoped that regular visits would resume at her elderly mother’s New York nursing home once all the residents were fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Around Easter, her wish finally came true, and she was able to hold […]
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A young Black woman has revealed she was turned away from two A&E departments with an ‘horrific’ skin condition before collapsing at a third hospital, because white doctors were unable to diagnose her. Kanayo Dike-Oduah, 27, from London said it wasn’t until she collapsed and was seen by a consultant who looked like her – a doctor with darker skin […]
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Among children with sickle cell disease who have not undergone hematopoietic stem cell transplant, Salmonella is now the leading cause of invasive bacterial infection (IBI), according to a new retrospective study (BACT-SPRING) conducted in Europe. Streptococcus pneumoniae was the second most common source of infection, marking a shift from years past, when S. pneumoniae was the most common source. The […]
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Infants with isolated sensorineural hearing loss as a result of congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection may benefit from treatment with valganciclovir, according to results from the CONCERT nonrandomized trial. Subjects were found through the Newborn Hearing Screening program, using dried blood spot screening to confirm cCMV Infection. As a result of 6 weeks of therapy, metformin test more patients in the […]
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Since lockdown started easing and countries were added to the green list, the noise around “needing” to shed the pandemic pounds has reached a crescendo. Tempted to crash diet? Here’s why yo-yo dieting is so detrimental to every part of your wellbeing. Warning: this feature contains discussion of disordered eating and diets During lockdown, we were bombarded with messages to stay […]
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The WHO said Tuesday that only one strain of the COVID-19 Delta variant first detected in India was now considered “of concern”, while two other strains had been downgraded. The B.1.617 variant of the virus, which has in part been blamed for India’s explosive outbreak, has been dubbed a triple mutant variant since it is split into three lineages. The […]
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Research published by JAMA Network Open shows how non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) like mask wearing and physical distancing can help prevent spikes in COVID-19 cases as populations continue to get vaccinated. The study, led by Mehul Patel, Ph.D., a clinical and population health researcher in the department of Emergency Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, focuses on the state of […]
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Researchers world-wide are focused on clearing the toxic mutant Huntingtin protein that leads to neuronal cell death and systemic dysfunction in Huntington’s disease (HD), a devastating, incurable, progressive neurodegenerative genetic disorder. Scientists in the Buck Institute’s Ellerby lab have found that the targeting the protein called FK506-binding protein 51 or FKBP51 promotes the clearing of those toxic proteins via autophagy, […]
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