Category: Health
AstraZeneca to withdraw Imfinzi US indication for advanced bladder cancer
AstraZeneca will voluntarily withdraw the use of its cancer drug Imfinzi to treat advanced bladder cancer in the United States after it failed to meet post-approval [...] » More
Pfiser says South African variant could significantly reduce vaccine protection
A laboratory study suggests that the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce antibody protection from the Pfiser Inc/BioNTech SE vaccine by two-thirds, and it is [...] » More
Blinken says US to pay $200 million in WHO obligations
The United States will pay more than $200 million to the World Health Organization by the end of the month after reversing Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw, Secretary of [...] » More
Wuhan COVID outbreak may have been wider than first thought, says WHO mission chief
The coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan may have been wider in December 2019 than first thought, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Peter Ben Embarek, the lead [...] » More
Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID shot less effective against S.African variant: study
British drugmaker AstraZeneca AZN.L said on Saturday its vaccine developed with the University of Oxford appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused [...] » More
Understanding COVID-19 origins will take years, says WHO team member
A member of the World Health Organization-led team visiting the central Chinese city of Wuhan said he has been surprised by the complexity of getting to the origins of the [...] » More
Open insulin can be stored at up to 37 C: study
Opened insulin can be stored for four weeks in warm conditions without losing efficacy, a study showed Wednesday, giving hope to diabetics in hot countries without access to [...] » More
Exclusive: Oxford kept COVID-19 vaccine trial volunteers in dark about dosing error, letter shows
About 1,500 of the initial volunteers in a late-stage clinical trial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were given the wrong dose, but weren’t informed that a [...] » More
WHO slams critics of Covid-19 origins probe
The World Health Organization on Monday blasted critics of its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and challenged those claiming to know better to come [...] » More
Time to team up and tackle Long Covid, says WHO expert
It is time to start solving the mystery of Long Covid, an aspect of the pandemic blighting millions of lives, the World Health Organization’s leader on post-Covid [...] » More
WHO team visits Wuhan market where first COVID infections detected
A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 visited Huanan market on Sunday, the now-shuttered wholesale seafood centre in the [...] » More
WHO probe team visits Wuhan market at heart of first virus outbreak
A team of WHO experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 visited a market in Wuhan on Sunday where one of the first reported clusters of infections emerged over a year [...] » More
Novavax Covid vaccine highly effective, but not against S.Africa variant
US biotech firm Novavax said Thursday its two-shot Covid-19 vaccine showed an overall efficacy of 89.3 percent in a major Phase 3 clinical trial in Britain, and remained [...] » More
Novavax says COVID-19 vaccine 89pct effective in UK trial, less in South Africa, shares jump
Novavax Inc said on Thursday its coronavirus vaccine was 89.3 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 in a trial conducted in the United Kingdom, and was nearly as effective [...] » More
‘Like students getting recess’: relief for WHO Wuhan team leaving quarantine
Members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of COVID-19 described long workdays during two weeks of quarantine, and relief at finally being able [...] » More
