Health

Virus cluster at nightclub sets off new Beijing clampdown

Editorial Bureau June 13, 2022

China’s capital has put school online in one of its major districts amid a new COVID-19 outbreak linked to a nightclub, while life has yet to return to normal in Shanghai despite the lifting of a more than two-month-long lockdown. China has stuck to its “zero-COVID” policy requiring mass

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China calls COVID ‘lab leak’ theory a lie after WHO report

Editorial Bureau June 10, 2022

Beijing(China)- China on Friday attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie after the World Health Organization recommended in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is needed into whether a lab accident may be to blame. Foreign Ministry spokesperson […]

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Virus testing is the new normal as China sticks to ‘zero-COVID’

Editorial Bureau June 9, 2022

Beijing (China)- Thousands of COVID-19 testing booths have popped up on sidewalks across Beijing and other Chinese cities in the latest twist to the country’s “zero-COVID” strategy. Lines form every day, rain or shine, even where the spread of the virus has largely stopped. Some people need to go to work. Others want to shop. […]

Health Pharma/BioTech

Medical Miracle; Cancer vanishes from every patient’s body in drug trial

Editorial Bureau June 8, 2022

A new drug is here which may have a 100 percent success rate in treating cancer. London(UK)- A miracle drug to cure cancer may just be here but this is not the first time that science has found an effective treatment for something that was once considered incurable, deadly and some diseases that even had the […]

Africa Health

Africans see inequity in monkeypox response elsewhere

Editorial Bureau June 1, 2022

Osun(Nigeria)- As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors acknowledge an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease’s spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades. Countries including Britain, Spain, Portugal, […]

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Shanghai moves toward ending 2-month COVID-19 lockdown

Editorial Bureau May 31, 2022

Shanghai (China)- Authorities in Shanghai say they will take significant steps toward reopening China’s largest city following a two-month COVID-19 lockdown that has slowed the national economy and largely trapped millions of people in their homes. Full bus and subway service and rail connections to the rest of China will be restored, Vice Mayor Zong […]

Health UK

New clinical trials deal struck to better protect the world from future pandemics

Editorial Bureau May 28, 2022

UK – Argentina led resolution at World Health Assembly will protect the world from future pandemics and existing health threats. A resolution will help developing countries run their drug and vaccine trials. UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid calls the agreement a ‘landmark moment’ in the world’s journey to pandemic […]

Health World

Spanish LGBTQ groups wary of monkeypox stigma as Pride nears

Editorial Bureau May 27, 2022

Madrid(Spain)- With one of Europe’s largest gay pride celebrations right around the corner, Spain’s LGBTQ community is worried that the outbreaks of monkeypox on the continent could lead to an increase in homophobic sentiment based on misunderstandings of the disease. Spanish health authorities said Thursday that there were now 84 confirmed cases in the country, […]

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US moves to make an antiviral drug more available against COVID

Editorial Bureau May 26, 2022

Washington(US)- The White House on Thursday announced more steps to make the antiviral treatment Paxlovid more accessible across the U.S. as it projects COVID-19 infections will continue to spread over the summer travel season. The nation’s first federally backed test-to-treat site is opening Thursday in Rhode Island, providing patients with immediate access to the drug

Health Pharma/BioTech

China’s bet on homegrown mRNA vaccines holds back the nation

Editorial Bureau May 25, 2022

Taipei (Taiwan)- China is trying to navigate its biggest coronavirus outbreak without a tool it could have adopted many months ago, the kind of vaccines that have proven to offer the best protection against the worst outcomes from COVID-19. As early as the spring of 2020, a Chinese pharmaceutical company, Fosun Pharma, reached an agreement […]