July 7, 2020
(Nature) – The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has for the first time released figures on actions taken against researchers who have been found to violate rules regarding the disclosure of foreign ties. Since 2018, the agency has reassigned suspended … Read More
July 6, 2020
(ABC News) – Several branches of the U.S. government on Wednesday warned private companies against using supply chains tied to forced labor camps in China’s Xinjiang province. The advisory was issued shortly after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) authorities … Read More
July 6, 2020
(Medical Xpress) – China is planning changes in its organ donation rules to tackle a shortage of donors and curb illicit harvesting after it stopped taking tissue from executed prisoners five years ago. The draft rules published Wednesday by the … Read More
July 3, 2020
(The Atlantic) – Though Mikac had seen local television reports about an outbreak of this tropical disease in Victoria, it sounded so freakish, so unlikely, that he hardly considered it a possibility. But like hundreds of Australians before him, he … Read More
July 1, 2020
(CNN) – The United States has been allocated almost all of the next few months’ supply of remdesivir, the only drug that’s known to work directly against Covid-19. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday that it … Read More
July 1, 2020
(Medscape) – A global trial designed to test whether the anti-malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine can prevent infection with COVID-19 is to restart after being approved by British regulators. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) took its decision … Read More
June 30, 2020
(Associated Press) – The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority … Read More
June 29, 2020
(STAT News) – For all governments in the developed world, including the U.S. government’s Indian Health Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Gilead will charge $2,340 for a five-day course. U.S. insurers, in addition to Medicare and Medicaid, will … Read More
June 29, 2020
(STAT News) – Two U.S. research groups have reported finding nearly 300 cases of an alarming apparent side effect of Covid-19 in children, a condition called multisystem inflammation syndrome, or MIS-C. While researchers have previously reported on the condition, the … Read More
June 25, 2020
(CNN) – The Democratic Republic of Congo’s battle against the world’s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak on record is officially over, the country’s health minister, Eteni Longondo, announced Thursday. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization regional director for Africa, said the announcement … Read More
