-- 2021-12-17 09:53:38
The World Health Organization issued interim recommendations on Thursday for mixing and matching Covid-19 vaccines from different manufacturers for both the second dose and booster shots. Depending o...
-- 2021-12-16 20:58:17
AstraZeneca on Thursday said a lab-study of its COVID-19 antibody cocktail, Evusheld, found that the treatment retained neutralising activity against the omicron coronavirus variant, showing promise f...
-- 2021-12-16 20:48:22
The European Union's drug regulator on Thursday approved a COVID-19 treatment from British-US duo GSK and Vir Biotechnology and another from Swedish drugmaker Sobi, as the bloc builds its defences aga...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-16 11:40:43
Major differences in how efficiently Omicron and other variants of the coronavirus multiply may help predict Omicron's effects, researchers said on Wednesday. Compared to the earlier Delta variant, O...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-15 15:44:27
Pfizer and BioNtech are set to displace AstraZeneca as the main suppliers of COVID-19 vaccines to the global COVAX programme at the start of 2022, a shift that shows the increasing importance of their...
-- 2021-12-15 12:58:24
Covid-19 vaccines appear to have become slightly less effective in preventing severe disease and death but do provide "significant protection", the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Th...
-- 2021-12-14 19:57:22
Pfizer Inc on Tuesday said the final analysis of its antiviral COVID-19 pill still showed around 89 per cent efficacy in preventing hospitalisations and deaths in high-risk patients, and recent lab da...
-- 2021-12-14 18:33:09
Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine appear to have given 70 per cent protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, a major real-world study on the potential impact of...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-14 17:15:48
Health and environmental groups call for international action to control plastic chemicals and scaling down on the production of plastics to curb the growing crisis of the element’s pollution....
-- 2021-12-14 16:44:27
Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine appear to have given 70 per cent protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, a major real-world study on the potential impact of...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-14 13:19:22
Dhaka’s sewage surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 offers an insight into community transmission and forecasting, promising early detection of the virus to help strengthen its containment measures, and...
-- 2021-12-14 12:59:31
The Omicron coronavirus variant, reported in more than 60 countries, poses a "very high" global risk, with some evidence that it evades vaccine protection but clinical data on its severity is limited,...
-- 2021-12-13 17:47:22
The omicron coronavirus variant, reported in more than 60 countries, poses a ‘very high’ global risk, with some evidence that it evades vaccine protection but clinical data on its severity...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-12 18:39:35
Despite the service environment of the country’s adolescent health centres has seen an improvement, the lack of medicine and human resources have remained as challenges, said a new study. ...
-- 2021-12-12 10:38:14
Israeli researchers said on Saturday they found that a three-shot course of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine provided significant protection against the new Omicron variant. The findings were sim...
FE REPORT 2021-12-10 09:20:04
The government is likely to start administering booster doses of coronavirus vaccine to the people aged 60 years and above, as its preparations are underway. "The eligible booster dose receivers are...
-- 2021-12-09 19:08:20
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended on Thursday that people who are immunocompromised or received an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine should receive a booster dose to protect against waning im...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-08 19:08:08
Pfizer said Wednesday that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine may protect against the new omicron variant even though the initial two doses appear significantly less effective. Pfizer and its par...
-- 2021-12-08 17:31:15
The Omicron variant can partially evade protection from two doses of Pfizer and partner BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, the research head of a laboratory at the Africa Health Research Institute in South...
-- 2021-12-07 17:18:23
British drugmaker GSK said on Tuesday its antibody-based COVID-19 therapy with US partner Vir Biotechnology is effective against all mutations of the new omicron coronavirus variant, citing new data f...
-- 2021-12-07 10:16:00
Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the previous year, but a worst-case scenario was averted, the World Health Organization sa...
-- 2021-12-06 14:19:15
Future pandemics could be more lethal than the current Covid crisis, one of the creators of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has warned. Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert, delivering the 44th Richard...
-- 2021-12-04 11:15:04
The Omicron variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 likely acquired at least one of its mutations by picking up a snippet of genetic material from another virus - possibly one that causes the common...
-- 2021-12-04 10:57:51
India expects the omicron variant of coronavirus to cause less severe disease, the health ministry said on Friday, thanks to vaccinations and high prior exposure to the delta variant that infected nea...
-- 2021-12-03 20:42:25
The World Health Organization's (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told Reuters on Friday that while the new coronavirus variant omicron appeared to be very transmissible, the right response was...
-- 2021-12-03 15:33:14
Roche's newly acquired subsidiary TIB Molbiol has developed three new test kits to help researchers detect mutations in the new omicron variant of coronavirus, Roche said on Friday. Governments aroun...
-- 2021-12-02 19:56:02
Laboratory analysis of the antibody-based COVID-19 therapy GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is developing with US partner Vir has indicated the drug is effective against the new omicron variant, the British drug...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-02 16:16:32
Psychotherapy interventions can improve women's financial empowerment and increase both time- and money-intensive parental investment while it can also reduce maternal depression among women, accordin...
FE REPORT 2021-12-02 11:16:10
Square Hospitals Limited on Wednesday organised a programme for cancer survivors and caregivers to provide them a spiritual relief to get back into normal lifestyle. The privately-owned healthcar...
-- 2021-12-01 18:50:03
The World Health Organisation (WHO) agreed on Wednesday to launch negotiations on an international pact to prevent and control future pandemics at a time when the world is gearing up to battle the new...
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