Five South Koreans die after getting flu shots, sparking vaccine fears
Five people have died after getting flu shots in South Korea in the past week, authorities said, raising concerns over the vaccine’s safety just as...
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Airlines’ Covid safety analysis challenged by expert
A campaign by coronavirus-stricken aviation giants to persuade the world it’s safe to fly has been questioned by one of the scientists whose research it...
Frozen food package with living virus could cause infection, China’s CDC says
China’s disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection. The conclusion came as...
Chinese city starts offering experimental vaccine for $60
A Chinese city is offering Sinovac Biotech’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine to essential workers and other high-risk groups as part of a national programme for about...
Breast cancer screeings in Cyprus third lowest in EU
Cyprus has the third lowest percentage of women who are screened for breast cancer in the EU, a Eurostat report published on Wednesday shows. In...
Third vaccine trial paused because of safety concerns
Eli Lilly and Co said that the government-sponsored clinical trial of its COVID-19 antibody treatment similar to one taken by U.S. President Donald Trump has...
J&J pauses COVID-19 vaccine trials due to unexplained illness in participant
Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it had temporarily paused its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials due to an unexplained illness in a study participant,...
Cyprus has low rate of stem cell transplants
Cyprus has the second lowest rate of stem cell transplantations among EU countries, newly published Eurostat numbers show. In 2018, over 30,000 patients in the...
Novel coronavirus can last 28 days on glass, banknotes
The virus that causes COVID-19 can survive on banknotes, glass and stainless steel for up to 28 days, much longer than the flu virus, Australian...
More investment needed in children’s mental health amid pandemic, NGO says
NGO Hope For Children on Friday called for more investment to be made in supporting the mental health of children and provide easy access to...
Europe records 100,000 daily coronavirus cases for first time
Europe surpassed 100,000 daily reported COVID-19 cases for the first time on Thursday, after countries such as Russia and United Kingdom saw no respite in...
Cigarette sales pick up during pandemic
Demand for cigarettes has picked up in the COVID-19 pandemic, helped by a rise in home working that has given smokers more opportunities to light...
Regeneron antibodies in demand after Trump treatment, doctors seek more data
Patients are asking to join clinical trials of antibody-based COVID-19 drugs after U.S. President Donald Trump was treated last week with an experimental therapy from...
Where are we in the COVID-19 vaccine race?
Drugmakers and research centers around the world are working on COVID-19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands...
Virus-hunting trio win Nobel for medicine on hepatitis C discovery
Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for identifying the hepatitis C virus, in work spanning decades that has helped...
Ireland faces resistance to “nuclear” COVID-19 lockdown recommendation
Ireland’s government faced political and business resistance on Monday to a surprise recommendation by health chiefs for Europe’s first major second wave national lockdown to...
European Medical Agency speeds up assessment of Covid vaccine
The European Medicine’s Agency (EMA) has started its first “rolling review” of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca in collaboration with the University of...
Minister calls for end to trials by media for Gesy problems
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday called for an end to trials by media over problems in Gesy, arguing the system is not to blame...
World’s first patient cured of HIV dies after cancer returns
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to be cured of HIV when he had a unique type of bone marrow transplant, has died in California after...
Health care providers to be fined for issuing health card information
The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) on Wednesday said it would fine Gesy health providers that offer services to beneficiaries for the issuance of health cards...
