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Coronavirus live news: WHO urges Pakistan to reimpose lockdown as Brazil restores Covid-19 data
WHO official walks back asymptomatic transmission comments; world faces worst food crisis in 50 years; UK NHS waiting list could hit 10m. Follow the latest updatesMoscow relaxes lockdown despite high caseload; Nigerian deaths riseMore than a dozen US states see record high of new casesJudge orders Bolsonaro to resume publishing Brazil Covid-19 dataAustralia coronavirus updates – liveSee all our coronavirus coverage12.43amBSTHello and welcome to today ’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic with me, Helen Sullivan.As always, it would be great to hear from you. Get in touch with questions, comments, tips and news fr...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 9, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Helen Sullivan Tags: Coronavirus outbreak World news Australia news UK news US news Americas Middle East and North Africa Asia Pacific New Zealand Canada Science Infectious diseases Source Type: news
Dorian, Back to a Category 3 Hurricane, Creeps Up U.S. Coast
US Army National Guard Pvt. Christopher Zambuto, left, and Specialist Jermaris Hamilton assemble cots in a shelter for Hurricane Dorian evacuees inside the old Sears location at Northgate Mall, on Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2019, in Durham, NC. (Casey Toth/The News & Observer via AP)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Hurricane Dorian , back to a Category 3 storm, began raking the Southeast U.S. seaboard early Thursday and left tens of thousands without power as it threatened to inundate low-lying coasts from Georgia to Virginia with a life-threatening storm surge after its deadly mauling of the Bahamas.
Dorian squatte...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - September 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News AP News Tag Source Type: news
Coronavirus live news: American FDA panel approves Pfizer vaccine as Biden advisor warns 'no Christmas parties'
Canada could start vaccinations within days;Biden advisor delivers stern Christmas warning;FDA panel approves Pfizer vaccineGiuliani leaves hospital after receiving same drug cocktail as TrumpCompromise lockdown struggles to subdue German second waveUS records more than 3,000 Covid deaths a day for first timeRich countries leaving rest behind on vaccines, warns Gates FoundationUS coronavirus updates - live6.13amGMTAn experimental Covid-19 vaccine of Sanofi and Britain ’s GlaxoSmithKline showed an insufficient immune response in clinical trial results, the French drugmaker said on Friday, a blow to efforts to find ways to...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 11, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Helen Sullivan Tags: Coronavirus World news US news Europe UK news Science Long Covid Infectious diseases Source Type: news
Top 10 Mesothelioma and Asbestos News Stories of 2020
Growing allegations of asbestos-contaminated talc in various consumer products, coupled with historic approval of a new treatment for pleural mesothelioma, made 2020 a year filled with both anxiety and hope.
Johnson & Johnson stopped selling its iconic baby powder in May after being hit by thousands of lawsuits contending its talc-based product was causing various cancers, including ovarian cancer and malignant mesothelioma.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the immunotherapy combination of Opdivo and Yervoy in October, the first new drug regimen approved for first-line treatment of unresectable disease in...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - December 15, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Source Type: news
Top 10 Mesothelioma News Stories of 2017
Every year, mesothelioma specialists and researchers make strides to advance the standard of care, improve treatment strategies and develop new diagnostic practices.
Mesothelioma remains a rare cancer, with an estimated 3,000 people diagnosed each year in the U.S., but the fight to find a cure only grows stronger.
And while researchers are busy finding breakthroughs in care, advocates are hard at work campaigning for a ban on asbestos, the main cause of mesothelioma.
This was a memorable year on both fronts.
Immunotherapy continues to be the hot topic among emerging treatments. Drugs such as pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and ni...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - December 22, 2017 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Daniel King Tags: canada asbestos ban Food and Drug Administration Furthering Asbestos Claims Transparency Act keytruda Medical marijuana mesothelioma mesothelioma vaccine Opdivo Scott Pruitt talcum powder lawsuit yervoy Source Type: news
Flu Season Now As Bad As 2009 Swine Flu
NEW YORK (AP) — The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago.
A government report out Friday shows 1 of every 13 visits to the doctor last week was for fever, cough and other symptoms of the flu. That ties the highest level seen in the U.S. during swine flu in 2009.
And it surpasses every winter flu season since 2003, when the government changed the way it measures flu.
“I wish that there were better news this week, but almost everything we’re looking at is bad news,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting director of the Centers for Disea...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - February 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health Local News Flu Swine Flu Source Type: news
Health Canada's 'fake news?' — It's not fake but it's not news either
Health Canada writing about itself is not fake because it's fact-based, but it's also not 'news,' journalism professor says.
Source: CBC | Health - April 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Van Driver Kills 10 on Toronto Sidewalk
TORONTO (AP) — Police in Canada's biggest city were piecing together witness accounts and surveillance video on Tuesday to determine why a 25-year-old man plowed a van into a busy stretch of sidewalk on a sunny afternoon in one of the deadliest incidents of violence in the country's history.
Witnesses and the city's police chief said the suspect, who was quickly captured following a tense confrontation with police, appeared to intentionally drive the rental van into the crowd along busy Yonge Street in north Toronto.
"It was like he playing a video game, trying to kill as many people as possible," said Panna P...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - April 24, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Charmaine Noronha, Associated Press Tags: Major Incidents News Mass Casualty Incidents Source Type: news
Lone Star Ticks Expanding Range Into Northeast, Report Says
(CNN/CBS) — The climate crisis is making us more vulnerable to ticks in an unprecedented and growing threat to public health, according to a new report.
Bacterial and protozoan tick-borne diseases doubled in the United States between 2004 and 2016, the report notes, and in 2017, more than 90% of the 60,000 vector-borne diseases in the United States were linked to these particular bloodsucking bugs.
The warmer temperatures brought by the climate crisis, in addition to ecological changes and reforestation, have extended the bugs’ range into regions that had not seen certain types of ticks for many decades, if eve...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - December 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Syndicated CBSN Boston Lone Star Tick ticks Source Type: news
Coronavirus updates: US flies out its Diamond Princess passengers as China cases pass 70,000 – live news
Global death toll reaches 1,775 with first case in Taiwan, as Canada prepares to airlift its citizens from Japan cruise ship. Follow live news and latest updates2.53amGMTThe economics research firm Capital Economics, has published some very interesting graphs which appear to show just how substantially activity in China has reduced as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.The first graph shows road congestion across 100 Chinese cities in the weeks before and after the lunar new year, comparing figures from the four years to 2020.2.29amGMTA fifth evacuation flight of Japanese citizens from Wuhan has landed in Tokyo.It landed...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Alison Rourke Tags: Coronavirus outbreak China Japan Hong Kong Australia news Asia Pacific Infectious diseases Science World news Source Type: news
Sunbeam Recalls Nearly 1 Million Crock-Pots Over Potential Burn Risk
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: CBS Boston Tags: Consumer News Syndicated CBSN Boston Recall Alert Sunbeam Source Type: news
First Reported U.S. Case of COVID-19 Variant Found in CO
By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America
DENVER (AP) — The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that’s been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday, adding urgency to efforts to vaccinate Americans.
The variant was found in a man in his 20s who is in isolation southeast of Denver in Elbert County and has no travel history, state health officials said.
Elbert County is a mainly rural area of rolling plains at the far edge of the Denver metro area that includes a portion of Interstate 70, the state’s main east-west highway.
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Source: JEMS Latest News - December 30, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Colorado Source Type: news
Kenya: Pfizer Covid Vaccine Has Efficacy of Just 12 Percent? No, Screenshot of Global News Headline Fake
[Africa Check] "Pfizer clinical trial data reveals the company's Covid vaccine has a 12% efficacy rate," reads the headline on what seems to be a screenshot of an article by the Canadian news website Global News, circulating on social media since May 2022.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 23, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
