Medications

Class action against Sanofi wins French court backing

A French court on Wednesday allowed a class-action lawsuit to go ahead against pharmaceutical giant Sanofi by families of victims of Depakine, an epilepsy drug that can severely damage foetal development.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Denmark brings COVID curbs back after just two months

Denmark will re-introduce a health pass because of a sharp rise in COVID-19 infections, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday, less than two months after scrapping controls.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

France ends free COVID testing for all

France on Friday stopped offering COVID tests free of charge for everyone, in the government's latest effort to incite holdouts to get vaccinated against the virus.

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Sydney coronavirus cases spike as lockdown falters

Australia reported another spike in new coronavirus cases Monday, as a lockdown in the country's largest city Sydney failed to halt a rapidly growing cluster of cases.

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Indonesia holds mass vaccination to scale up virus fight

Thousands of Indonesians lined up at a sports stadium to get a COVID-19 vaccine dose Thursday in a one-day, mass vaccination event that's part of a push to dramatically scale up the nation's virus fight as hospitals fill ...

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16 new cases cause worry in Taiwan, Tsai says don't panic

Taiwan's president on Wednesday sought to reassure the public that the government is capable of withstanding a further outbreak of COVID -19 after 16 local cases were detected.

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