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Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine has been granted on Tuesday authorization to expand the use in children and teenagers ages 6 to 17 by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) advisory panel of outside experts. The panel […]

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In a briefing document released Sunday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deemed Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine safe and effective for use in the only age group not yet eligible for vaccination in the […]

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On Instagram, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned her followers to test drugs for fentanyl before consuming them, especially MDMA, often known as ecstasy, Fox News informed. According to the AOC Instagram story she said that […]

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China’s leader Xi Jinping has reiterated his country’s commitment to zero-Covid, declaring that “persistence is victory” as Covid restrictions returned to Shanghai and Beijing.  The two major cities were hit with new lockdowns, shutdowns, and […]

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The Food and Drug Administration’s independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee recommended to the agency to grant an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Novavax two-dose vaccine against COVID-19 for individuals 18 and older. […]

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Shanghai sprung back to life today after two months of bitter isolation and an extremely strict Covid lockdown. The streets filled back up today, and the subway and shops reopened. It comes as a range of […]

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After many cases of monkeypox have been reported in non-endemic countries in the last three weeks and their number is continuing to rise, several countries that have stockpiled doses of smallpox and monkeypox vaccines and […]

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On Sunday, a military aircraft carrying the first consignment of baby formula from Europe arrived in Indianapolis, and the White House announced that a second trip had been scheduled, Reuters reported. The closure of Abbott […]

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After US President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA) last week to solve the statewide shortage of baby formula, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Sunday that there is presently no […]

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Nine million people a year are being killed by pollution.  A new review found that toxic air and contaminated water and soil is an existential threat to both planetary health, as well as human health. […]

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North Korea is on the brink of a Covid catastrophe unless swift action is taken to provide vaccinations and treatments, experts warn.  In the isolated country, the number of people reported to have contracted Covid […]

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Shanghai has set out plans to return to normal life beginning June 1, ending what has been a painful Covid lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks and contributed to a sharp decline in […]

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The baby formula shortage that has left families in a bind might last for months, News Nation reports. Former FDA commissioner Peter Pitts predicts it will be done in 6-10 weeks. The problem arises from […]

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Proponents of abortion rights will hold rallies around the country on Saturday, beginning off what organizers predict will be a “summer of rage” if the Supreme Court overturns the Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized […]

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A pregnant Croatian woman whose 24-week-old fetus was diagnosed with a malignant and deadly brain tumor was denied an abortion after hospitals in Zagreb have refused to perform the procedure, reviving the abortion debate in […]

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed a new rule to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. The ban is a long time coming. Menthol is the last special flavor allowed in cigarettes in the U.S. […]

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After the clinical trials in March showed that its vaccine prevents serious illness – although it wasn’t particularly effective against infection – in children 6 months to under 6 years of age, Moderna submitted on […]

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Faced with the possibility of a Shanghai-style lockdown and the recent spike in Covid cases that have sparked food stockpiling by worried residents, Beijing will conduct mass testing of almost three-quarters of its 21 million […]

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Residents of Beijing are flooding supermarkets to stock up for food in fear of a looming lockdown as the capital records a growing number of Covid infections.  Food stockpiling is happening in an effort to […]

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Shanghai has further tightened its already strict lockdown, which has been ongoing for nearly a month.  Chinese authorities further tightened the Covid restrictions and warned the massive city’s 25 million residents that strict measures would […]

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