Africa should see the first COVID-19 vaccine doses in March from the global COVAX effort aimed at helping lower-income countries obtain the shots, the World Health Organization’s Africa chief said Thursday, as deaths on the continent are rapidly rising. Matshidiso Moeti told reporters that a larger rollout of the millions of doses from COVAX is […]
Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine triggered antibodies that last at least 71 days ALL trial volunteers, early data reveals – amid fears the firm will NOT have 12 million doses for the US by February Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose COVID-19 vaccine triggered antibodies safely it works in 100% of people 18-55 and 65 or […]
The coronavirus mutation first found in Britain has now spread to 50 territories, according to the World Health Organization, while a similar South African-identified strain has now been found in 20. The UN body also noted a third new coronavirus “variant of concern” found in Japan may impact upon immune response and needs further investigation. […]
In her last trimester, in the midst of dealing with family and work issues as well as preparing for a new baby, Michelle Emebo felt stressed. “I didn’t realize how much it was impacting me until I went to see my health care provider and my blood pressure was up,” she said. Doctors monitored her […]
Through much of the last year, COVID-19 has propelled many people to accept and follow new patterns of behavior. These include wearing a mask in public, attempting to socially distance and restricting groups to smaller numbers. Developed in what critics say was an absence of strong national leadership, these behaviors have been policed, by and […]
Future parents! Pregnant Bindi Irwin and Chandler Powell are anxiously awaiting their first child. Bindi Irwin’s Baby Bump! See the Star’s Pregnancy Progress “All the love in the world,” the Bindi the Jungle Girl alum, 22, captioned a Sunday, January 10, Instagram photo of herself and the Florida native, 24, cradling her stomach. The former […]
World-leading AI technology developed by the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine and their colleagues offers a glimpse of the future of precision medicine, and unprecedented predictive power to clinicians caring for individuals with cystic fibrosis. Accurately predicting how an individual’s chronic illness is going to progress is critical to delivering better-personalized, precision medicine. Only […]
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Wuhan City in China was the first place to report COVID-19 in the world and—between December 2019 and May 2020—caused nearly two-thirds of all COVID-19 cases in China. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have tested more than 60,000 healthy individuals in China for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and concluded that thousands of Wuhan residents […]
Scientists in the US have found that the more physical activity people do in midlife the better their brain health in later life. The scientific publication, Neurology, has reported the results today. The researchers looked at 1,604 volunteers taking part in an existing study, to see if there was a link between activity levels and […]
