Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

World monkeypox outbreak tops 50,000 cases

More than 50,000 monkeypox cases have been recorded in the global outbreak, WHO figures showed Wednesday, though transmission is slowing in the virus hotspots of Europe and the United States.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Monkeypox: The next global vaccine equity failure?

Inequitable access to COVID-19 vaccines has turned out to be the catastrophic moral failure the World Health Organization's director-general warned about at the beginning of 2021.

Cardiology

Pulmonary hypertension guidelines call for earlier diagnosis

Earlier detection of pulmonary hypertension in the community and expedited referral of high-risk or complex patients are recommended in the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) Guidelines ...

Vaccination

EU watchdog reviewing SK Chemicals anti-Covid jab

The European medicines watchdog said Thursday it was reviewing German-based pharmaceutical SK Chemicals' coronavirus vaccine which uses nanotechnology to combat the virus, amid concern of a possible comeback later in the ...

Medical economics

Patients like public health services best, study finds

In many countries, health services have traditionally been publicly managed and financed. But in recent decades, several countries have undergone major health reforms, inspired by more market thinking.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

EU eyes autumn approval of Pfizer jab for COVID variants

The EU's medicines watchdog said Wednesday it aims to approve this autumn a Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine adapted for two fast-spreading subvariants of the Omicron strain.

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