China’s drug authority has approved for clinical trials an inhaled COVID-19 vaccine co-developed by domestic firm CanSino Biologics, the company said in a filing on Tuesday. The move comes after the National Medical Products Administration gave another CanSino vaccine conditional approval last month, allowing it for public use. China currently has five coronavirus vaccines that have been given conditional market […]
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Swiss regulators on Monday gave the green light to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, after already authorising the jabs made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. The Swissmedic regulatory authority said in a statement that it had authorised the use of the vaccine, which has the advantages of being a single-shot jab that can be stored with regular refrigeration rather than at […]
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Nationwide, COVID cases have fallen dramatically since the winter peak and millions of vaccine doses started rolling out. But some areas appear to be bucking this trend, including several states and metropolitan areas in the Northeast, which have been reporting high case rates and hospital utilization. Specifically, the New York City metropolitan area had a rate of nearly 260.6 cases […]
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FILE PHOTO: People walk on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, as France’s 16 hardest-hit departments go into a new month-long lockdown imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) contagion, France March 20, 2021. REUTERS/Eric GaillardPARIS (Reuters) – More restrictions aimed at tackling the COVID-19 pandemic may be needed for France, if the current measures do not […]
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FILE PHOTO: A medical worker in a protective suit collects a swab sample from a middle school student during a mass nucleic acid testing following a recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Xingtai, Hebei province, China January 6, 2021. China Daily via REUTERS(Reuters) – China reported nine new COVID-19 cases on March 22, up from seven cases a day earlier, […]
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FILE PHOTO: A medical worker wearing protective gear stands next to an ambulance outside a hospital for patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kyiv, Ukraine November 24, 2020. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich//File PhotoKYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine registered a record daily high of 333 coronavirus-related deaths over the past 24 hours, the health minister, Maksym Stepanov, said on Tuesday. The previous […]
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Though 40 million concussions are recorded annually, no effective treatment exists for them or for many other brain-related illnesses. In collaboration with Dragan Maric of the National Institutes of Health, Badri Roysam, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his team are working to speed up drug development to treat brain […]
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By the time they turn 40 years old, 40 percent of women experience hair loss according to the American Academy of Dermatology. It’s a staggering number considering how little hair loss is talked about in women compared with men. Though it’s less stigmatized for a man to experience balding, many women battle hair loss (particularly after pregnancy) in silence, which is […]
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Could my symptoms be caused by an undiagnosed hiatus hernia? DR MARTIN SCURR answers your health questions For several months, I have been experiencing symptoms my GP can’t explain, including heart palpitations, chest pain, weight loss and my toes turning purple. Tests for an overactive thyroid were inconclusive. Could my symptoms be caused by an undiagnosed hiatus hernia? I’m 65 […]
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Lo Bosworth says that she is "really lucky" she didn't sustain a more serious brain injury, but that she is still recovering from the incident two years ago. Bosworth was at a New York City restaurant in March 2019 when a door fell off of its hinges and onto her head, knocking her unconscious. "I was sitting in a banquette […]
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