Aug 08, 2022 05:42 am UTC| Health
After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, friends and family started asking me, an infectious disease epidemiologist, if monkeypox is about to begin causing widespread death and...
SK Bioscience seeks approval for its SKY Covione COVID vaccine in Europe
Aug 03, 2022 11:23 am UTC| Health Economy Business
SK Bioscience has applied for conditional approval for the use of SKY Covione, a COVID-19 vaccine, with the European Medicines Agency (EMA). SKY Covione, developed jointly by the biotech affiliate of SK Group and the...
US federal court rejects Pfizer's appeal over co-pays for heart failure patients
Jul 26, 2022 23:25 pm UTC| Law Health Economy Business
Pfizer Incs challenge to a US anti-kickback law which it says prevented it from helping heart failure patients afford the medicine that cost $225,000 per year was rejected by a federal appeals court. A three-judge panel...
Liquid-based e-cigarettes emit 12 times more ultrafine dust than regular cigarettes: study
Jul 24, 2022 22:33 pm UTC| Health Economy Business
Liquid-based e-cigarettes emit 12 times more ultrafine dust than regular cigarettes, according to a recent study by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. By photographing smoke and aerosols emitted from...
Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain – new study
Jul 23, 2022 16:30 pm UTC| Health
For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain namely an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin. However, our latest research...
Silent, subtle and unseen: How seizures happen and why they're hard to diagnose
Jul 23, 2022 16:24 pm UTC| Health
The dramatic and incapacitating nature of seizures is reflected in the word itself, which derives from the Greek to take hold like an invisible force suddenly grasping someone and controlling their body. This sense of an...
Jul 23, 2022 16:18 pm UTC| Health
1. What are the important risk factors for Biden? The most important risk factor for developing severe COVID-19 is age. If you are 79 years old when you become infected with COVID-19, like President Biden, you are eight...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects