Vaccination
The race to vaccinate: why Africa is struggling to get COVID jabs
Vaccines were promoted as a silver bullet to end the pandemic, the path to finally beating COVID-19.
Sep 21, 2021
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Health
Swiss flavour firm gets taste for post-COVID health food boom
Health foods will become a dominant nutrition trend in the post-COVID era, the boss of the Swiss group Firmenich, one of the world's major flavour and perfume manufacturers, told AFP.
Aug 3, 2021
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Vaccination
In US, experts make case for vaccine mandates
Neither the threat of dying from COVID nor an array of inducements from lottery tickets to guns and marijuana have been enough to sway America's staunchest vaccine holdouts.
Jun 30, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Predictors for antivax sentiments: Low trust in government, conspiracy beliefs, watching YouTube
People who look to social media for information, particularly YouTube, are less willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new publication from the universities of Oxford and Southampton whose researchers are ...
Jun 3, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Innovative digital app fast-tracked to help MND patients during COVID-19 pandemic
A new online system, developed by the University of Sheffield, which enables healthcare professionals to remotely monitor and support patients who have motor neurone disease (MND) during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been fast-tracked ...
Aug 11, 2020
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
The coronavirus exposes the perils of profit in seniors' housing
In May 2020, Orchard Villa, a long-term care home in Pickering, Ont., made headlines for a bad COVID-19 outbreak. Just two months into Ontario's lockdown, 77 patients in the 233-bed home had died.
Jul 27, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus: latest global developments
Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis:
Jul 21, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Germany to put all arrivals in 14-day quarantine
Germany will put all arriving travellers in quarantine for 14 days, the interior ministry said Monday, as Berlin ramps up entry curbs to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Apr 6, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus triggers work-from-home trend in Seattle
Tech firms in Seattle, a new focal point for the coronavirus epidemic, were telling employees this week to take advantage of technology to work remotely in an effort to contain the outbreak.
Mar 6, 2020
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Hungary state-run clinics to give free IVF treatment
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Thursday that fertility treatment at state-run clinics would be provided free of charge, a latest measure aimed at stemming demographic decline.
Jan 9, 2020
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