Cyprus to mark international overdose awareness day
Eleftheria Square will be symbolically lit in purple on Tuesday evening to honour International Overdose Awareness Day, to pay tribute to those who lost their lives to overdose and recognise ...
Health minister slams Okypy delays in letter to board (Updated)
A letter has been sent by Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas to the state health services organisation (Okypy) warning “for the last time” about delays, and “compliance with Council of Ministers ...
Coronavirus: Countries weigh need for booster shots
Covid -19 vaccine booster shots will be made widely available to Americans in September, while several other countries including Israel, Germany and France have decided to offer boosters to older ...
Llama antibodies to save us from Covid-19?
Llama antibodies could soon be playing a role in the global fight against COVID-19, if clinical trials being conducted by a Belgian biomedical start-up live up to their early promise.
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Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine boosters show signs of taming Delta
Less than a month into a Covid -19 vaccine booster drive, Israel is seeing signs of an impact on the country’s high infection and severe illness rates fuelled by ...
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine wins full U.S. FDA approval (Updated)
The U.S. drug regulator on Monday granted full approval to the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine – the first to secure such Food and Drug Administration validation – prompting President ...
US FDA aims to give full approval to Pfizer vaccine on Monday
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is aiming to give full approval to Pfizer‘s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Regulators were aiming ...
AstraZeneca’s antibody therapy prevents Covid-19, study shows
AstraZeneca’s new antibody therapy reduced the risk of people developing COVID-19 symptoms by 77% in a late-stage trial, putting the drugmaker on track to offer protection to those who respond ...
Israeli doctors find severe Covid-19 breakthrough cases mostly in older, sicker patients
In Israel’s COVID-19 wards, doctors are learning which vaccinated patients are most vulnerable to severe illness, amid growing concerns about instances in which the shots provide less protection against ...
Singapore prepares for long term life – and death – with Covid-19
With just a few dozen Covid -19 deaths and one of the world’s highest vaccination rates, Singapore wants to reopen for business – and is laying the groundwork to live ...
Robot nurse to aid in Covid treatments in Egypt
A white-colored, feminine-looking android was standing imperturbably inside a lab of Cairo’s Ain Shams University, with members of her development team and reports via a touch screen on her ...
FDA authorizes Covid-19 vaccine boosters for the immunocompromised
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a third dose of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for people with compromised immune systems.
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CDC recommends pregnant women get Covid-19 vaccine
Pregnant women should be vaccinated against COVID-19, based on a new analysis that did not show increased risk for miscarriage, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...
Hope for Parkinson’s sufferers
Australian researchers have created a hydrogel that could be used as a one-off intervention to treat Parkinson’s disease and possibly other neurological conditions, a member of the development team ...
The Covid drug the Australian government has bought before being approved for use?
Australia currently has drugs that treat the symptoms of COVID, and drugs that have been repurposed from other diseases. Now the government has placed an early order for a new ...
Authorities say no cause for alarm as another product found with ethylene oxide
The health ministry on Thursday sought to clarify the situation regarding foodstuffs found to contain ethylene oxide, saying that trace amounts pose no direct danger to human health – while announcing ...
Thyroid cancer in Cypriot children among the world’s highest
A population-based study using data from the Cyprus Paediatric Oncology Registry showed that thyroid cancer incidence in Cypriot children and teenagers is among the world’s highest.
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Multiple Sclerosis Association seeks participants for health survey
Cyprus Multiple Sclerosis Association has called on locals to participate in an international survey to evaluate health care procedures.
In a social media post inviting people to participate in the ...
CDC says Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described the Delta variant of the coronavirus to be as contagious as chickenpox and could cause severe illness, the ...
CanSinoBIO’s inhaled Covid vaccine candidate triggers immune response
An inhaled version of CanSino Biologics’ (CanSinoBIO) COVID-19 vaccine triggered immune responses without serious side effects, an early-stage clinical trial showed.
The two-dose candidate requires lower dosages than the injected ...
Antibodies from Sinovac shot fade after about 6 months
Antibodies triggered by Sinovac Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine decline below a key threshold from around six months after a second dose for most recipients, although a third shot could have ...
How the Delta variant upends assumptions about the coronavirus
The Delta variant is the fastest, fittest and most formidable version of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 the world has encountered, and it is upending assumptions about the disease even ...
Parliamentary inquiry urges UK-wide minimum standard protocol for head injuries
The British government has been urged to mandate a minimum standard protocol for concussions across sports in a bid to reduce the risk of brain injuries among athletes, according to ...
Ivermectin is safe, but ‘not a viable option’ to treat Covid-19 study shows
Ivermectin, an existing drug against parasites including head lice, has had a chequered history when it comes to treating COVID-19.
The bulk of studies so far show there’s not ...