Vaccination

Johnson & Johnson files for EU vaccine approval

US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has applied for authorisation for its coronavirus vaccine in the EU with a decision possible by the middle of March, Europe's drugs regulator said Tuesday.

Genetics

Epigenomic map reveals circuitry of 30,000 human disease regions

Twenty years ago this month, the first draft of the human genome was publicly released. One of the major surprises that came from that project was the revelation that only 1.5 percent of the human genome consists of protein-coding ...

Addiction

Cheaper chocolate and alcohol are a public health setback

Norway's budget settlement between the government and the Progress Party resulted in getting rid of the sugar tax for chocolate and sweets, halving the tax on soft drinks, cutting the taxes on snuff by 25 percent and on beer ...

Medical research

Temperature scanners of limited value in detecting COVID-19

Making people stand in front of a scanner to have their body temperature read can result in a large number of false negatives, allowing people with COVID-19 to pass through airports and hospitals undetected.

Oncology & Cancer

Big data analysis finds cancer's key vulnerabilities

Thousands of different genetic mutations have been implicated in cancer, but a new analysis of almost 10,000 patients found that regardless of the cancer's origin, tumors could be stratified in only 112 subtypes and that, ...

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