Just two percent of the population, or less, have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus in half of the countries in Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday,
Sep 30, 2021
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Firefighters who worked at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 attacks in 2001 are 13% more likely than colleagues who didn't work at the site to develop cancer, particularly prostate and thyroid cancer, finds research ...
Sep 11, 2021
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Fully vaccinated people do not urgently need booster jabs against COVID-19, a key European agency said Wednesday, but an extra dose for people with depressed immune systems should be considered.
Sep 1, 2021
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More than five billion anti-COVID jabs have been given globally, but wide disparities between rich and poor countries in access to vaccines persist.
Aug 24, 2021
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After two months of soaring COVID-19 cases in the UK, numbers have again started to fall—and to the surprise of many, fall quite dramatically. New cases peaked at 54,674 on July 17 before falling to 23,511 on July 27. They ...
Jul 29, 2021
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Although more than four billion doses of anti-COVID vaccines have been administered around the world, poorer countries are still struggling to secure precious shots despite recent donations.
Jul 29, 2021
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The World Health Organization on Wednesday sought to reassure pharmaceutical companies that a proposal to suspend patent rights on COVID-19 vaccines was not a bid to "snatch" their intellecutual property rights.
Jul 22, 2021
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Coronavirus-linked deaths in Africa surged by 43 percent in the space of a week, driven by a lack of intensive-care beds and oxygen, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
Jul 15, 2021
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A new study by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine indicates that people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)—approximately 38 million worldwide—are more ...
Jun 28, 2021
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A study in 27 European countries puts the prevalence of depression at 6.4 percent of the population. The work, published in The Lancet Public Health, analyzed data from the European Health Interview Survey, which includes ...
Jun 22, 2021
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