April 14, 2021
(Newsweek) – In a recent interview, an exiled doctor from the Uyghur ethnic minority provided a vivid account of forced sterilizations carried out in Xinjiang, China. “On some days there were about 80 surgeries to carry out forced sterilizations,” Gülgine, … Read More
April 14, 2021
(Associated Press) – Ongoing volcanic eruptions have displaced about 20% of people in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent as a U.N. official on Wednesday warned of a growing humanitarian crisis. Between 16,000 to 20,000 people were evacuated under … Read More
April 14, 2021
(The Conversation) – The world has a COVID-19 vaccine access problem: Almost half of all doses administered so far have been in Europe and North America, while many poorer countries have vaccinated less than than 1% of their populations. With … Read More
April 14, 2021
(New York Times) – First it was AstraZeneca. Now Johnson & Johnson. Last week, British regulators and the European Union’s medical agency said they had established a possible link between AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine and very rare, though sometimes fatal, blood … Read More
April 14, 2021
(Medscape) – Two new studies have suggested that the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 is more transmissible than other strains but found no evidence to suggest it led to more severe disease or caused worse symptoms. One of the studies found … Read More
April 14, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 383, no. 13, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Fundamentals of U.S. Health Policy: Competing Visions for the Future of Health Policy” by M. Fiedler “Assessing the Safety of Glucose-Lowering … Read More
April 13, 2021
(New York Times) – Three people infected with the coronavirus died at a hospital in Bucharest on Monday evening after the oxygen supply stopped functioning, according to the authorities, the latest incident involving oxygen failure, which in many countries has … Read More
April 13, 2021
(Medical Xpress) – Uruguay has reported a 24-hour record coronavirus death toll, as it has gone from one of the least-affected countries to registering the most new daily cases per capita in the world. Government data released late Monday showed … Read More
April 13, 2021
(Medical Xpress) – South Africa suspended giving Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots Tuesday as a “precautionary measure” and the company delayed its European vaccine rollout following an FDA decision to pause the jabs while very rare blood clot cases are … Read More
April 13, 2021
(Reuters) – China’s locally developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate that uses messenger RNA (mRNA) technology could start late-stage clinical trial overseas as early as next month, official media said on Tuesday. ARCoV, the China-developed mRNA vaccine candidate that is furthest along … Read More
