Medications
US travelers warned about counterfeit pills containing fentanyl in Mexican pharmacies
Traveling in Mexico? Use caution when buying medications there, cautions the U.S. State Department.
Mar 20, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Europeans cross borders to get monkeypox vaccine
Hundreds of Europeans have crossed borders for the monkeypox vaccine, sparking calls to address a gaping inequality in access to doses between nations.
Aug 25, 2022
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Vaccination
South Africa hails COVID vaccine patent waiver
South Africa on Saturday hailed a WTO agreement to allow developing countries to start producing their own COVID vaccines following a near two-year battle.
Jun 18, 2022
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Spain says masks no longer totally obligatory indoors
Spain took another step Wednesday toward a sense of normality amid the pandemic by partially ending the near two-year-long obligatory use of masks indoors.
Apr 20, 2022
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Vaccination
Cash deal for Africa's innovative mRNA vaccine
The UN-backed global Medicines Patent Pool on Thursday signed a 39-million-euro ($45 million) grant with South African biotech firm Afrigen to fund work on new mRNA COVID jabs.
Feb 3, 2022
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Health
Team-based primary care, coupled with payment reform, may reduce emergency department use
Team-based care is a critical component of effective primary care that may reduce emergency department use by patients. In addition, sharing care responsibilities within an interprofessional primary care team, coupled with ...
Jan 26, 2022
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Vaccination
US tycoon opens Africa's first start-to-finish COVID-19 jab plant
US biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday opened a plant in Cape Town that will be the first in Africa to produce COVID-19 vaccines from start to finish.
Jan 19, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Italy towns under new restrictions amid COVID infection rise
Twenty small towns in northern Italy's autonomous South Tyrol province went into a partial lockdown Wednesday to try to contain rising coronavirus infections and save the key winter tourism season in one of the least-vaccinated ...
Nov 24, 2021
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Germany's BioNTech to build Africa vaccine plant from 2022
Germany's BioNTech, which developed a coronavirus jab with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, said Tuesday it aims to begin building a vaccine plant in Africa next year.
Oct 26, 2021
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Vaccination
S.Africa's Aspen releases first batch of Johnson vaccine
South African pharmaceutical company Aspen said Monday it was releasing its first batch of African-produced COVID-19 vaccines under a licensing deal with the US giant Johnson & Johnson.
Jul 26, 2021
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