As U.S approves booster shots, under 3.5% vaccinated in Africa
“This doesn’t only hurt the people of Africa, it hurts all of us. The longer vaccine inequity persists, the more the virus will keep circulating and changing, the longer the…
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WHO supported Solidarity trial finds remdesivir ineffective but WHO prequalifies it anyway
Even as WHO supported Solidarity Therapeutics Trial found remdesivir to be ineffective in reducing mortality and duration of hospital stay, the global body prequalified the drug the same day the…
Pandemic causes 25% dip in TB notifications in India
While India accounts for 26% of TB cases in the world, the TB notifications during the period January-June 2020 in India reduced by 25% compared to the same period in…
Remdesivir, other repurposed drugs ineffective, says WHO’s Solidarity trial
WHO’s Solidarity Therapeutics Trial, the largest randomised control trial carried out in the world during the pandemic, has found that four repurposed drugs — remdesivir, interferon, hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir regimes…
To enslave youth, E-cigarettes use time-tested machinations of big tobacco
The e-cigarettes makers have been following the time-tested machinations of the big tobacco companies to a tee. Using flavours is just one of the many strategies that e-cigarette makers have…
Pictorial warning: Will public health override free speech in the U.S?
It is an irony that a country that introduced text health warnings in 1966 and updated it in 1984 to include the Surgeon General’s warning, cigarettes packages in the U.S…
Merck’s unlicensed Ebola vaccine shows 97.5% efficacy in Congo
Merck’s Ebola vaccine, which underwent phase-3 trial during the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in west Africa, has shown 97.5% efficacy in preventing Ebola disease when used during the current epidemic in…
India should soon introduce plain packaging
Besides Australia, France, UK. Norway, Ireland, New Zealand and Hungary have introduced plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging was will be introduced in Uruguay and Slovenia in 2019 and…
