Chile’s Comprehensive Food Policy Offers Global Lesson in Tackling Unhealthy Foods 08/08/2023 Francesca R Dillman Carpentier, Lindsey Smith Taillie & Teresa Correa Ultra-processed products are usurping healthier, minimally processed foods in much of the world. Breakfasts are too often pre-packaged and sugar-laden, while lunches are loaded with sodium and wrapped in plastic – products that have been transformed using industrial processes and filled with additives to make them highly palatable. The widespread consumption of these foods and […] Continue reading -> Made in India: Another Cough Syrup Caught by the WHO for Contamination 08/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Adding to the spate of contaminated medicines linked back to India, the World Health Organization (WHO) has flagged another cough syrup for the presence of contaminants. This is the fifth medical product alert for an Indian formulation issued by the WHO since October 2022. “A sample of the Cold Out Syrup was obtained from one […] Continue reading -> Uganda’s PEPFAR Grant Likely to Go Ahead, as UN Human Rights Office is Closed 07/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most of the $500 million in US support for Uganda’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, financed by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), is likely to go ahead next month despite the country’s draconian new Anti-Homosexuality Act, according to sources close to the process. However, it is still possible that some parts of the PEPFAR […] Continue reading -> Healthier Diets, Lifestyles and Cities: Bloomberg’s Kelly Henning Reflects on a 16-Year Partnership with WHO 04/08/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 300 million people have been protected from becoming smokers in the 15 years since WHO launched the ‘MPOWER’ package of recommended policies for reducing smoking prevalence in countries worldwide, declared Kelly Henning, of Bloomberg Philanthropies, at a press conference in Geneva this week. She was speaking at a WHO briefing launching the 2023 WHO […] Continue reading -> North America Has World’s Lowest Exclusive Breastfeeding Rate 03/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan Barely over a quarter of babies in North America are exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life – far lower than anywhere else in the world. The US has yet to sign the International Code on Marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes, adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1981 to curb the aggressive marketing […] Continue reading -> ‘Women Deliver’: Protecting Safe Spaces as Attacks on Gender Equality Increase 03/08/2023 Yvonne Mpambara The Women Deliver conference is one of the world’s largest gatherings on gender equity and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This year, amidst a global backlash against the rights of women and people of diverse genders, the meeting was held for the first time in Africa in Rwanda from 17-20 July. More than […] Continue reading -> GSK Sues Pfizer for Patent Violations over its RSV Vaccine 03/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Merely months after securing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine, British pharma giant GSK has taken Pfizer to court for patent violations. GSK filed the lawsuit in a US federal court in Delaware on Wednesday alleging that Pfizer’s RSV vaccine, Abrysvo, violates four patents surrounding the antigen […] Continue reading -> Dengue Cases Soar in Americas as Mosquitoes Find New Habitats 02/08/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of dengue cases in the Americas has surpassed three million this year, as climate change makes people more vulnerable to the disease and the world more hospitable to the mosquitoes that carry it. Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns are providing a boon to the Aedis aegypti mosquito, the main carrier of dengue. […] Continue reading -> US Consolidates Efforts to Address Pandemics, HIV and Other Global Health Threats into Single Bureau 02/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan The US has consolidated its efforts to address global health threats into a single structure, the Bureau of Global Heath Security and Diplomacy, which was launched on Monday. Renowned Cameroonian health expert Dr John Nkengasong, appointed last year to lead the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leads the new structure and will […] Continue reading -> Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safest for Older People 02/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. 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Made in India: Another Cough Syrup Caught by the WHO for Contamination 08/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Adding to the spate of contaminated medicines linked back to India, the World Health Organization (WHO) has flagged another cough syrup for the presence of contaminants. This is the fifth medical product alert for an Indian formulation issued by the WHO since October 2022. “A sample of the Cold Out Syrup was obtained from one […] Continue reading -> Uganda’s PEPFAR Grant Likely to Go Ahead, as UN Human Rights Office is Closed 07/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most of the $500 million in US support for Uganda’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, financed by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), is likely to go ahead next month despite the country’s draconian new Anti-Homosexuality Act, according to sources close to the process. However, it is still possible that some parts of the PEPFAR […] Continue reading -> Healthier Diets, Lifestyles and Cities: Bloomberg’s Kelly Henning Reflects on a 16-Year Partnership with WHO 04/08/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 300 million people have been protected from becoming smokers in the 15 years since WHO launched the ‘MPOWER’ package of recommended policies for reducing smoking prevalence in countries worldwide, declared Kelly Henning, of Bloomberg Philanthropies, at a press conference in Geneva this week. She was speaking at a WHO briefing launching the 2023 WHO […] Continue reading -> North America Has World’s Lowest Exclusive Breastfeeding Rate 03/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan Barely over a quarter of babies in North America are exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life – far lower than anywhere else in the world. The US has yet to sign the International Code on Marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes, adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1981 to curb the aggressive marketing […] Continue reading -> ‘Women Deliver’: Protecting Safe Spaces as Attacks on Gender Equality Increase 03/08/2023 Yvonne Mpambara The Women Deliver conference is one of the world’s largest gatherings on gender equity and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This year, amidst a global backlash against the rights of women and people of diverse genders, the meeting was held for the first time in Africa in Rwanda from 17-20 July. More than […] Continue reading -> GSK Sues Pfizer for Patent Violations over its RSV Vaccine 03/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Merely months after securing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine, British pharma giant GSK has taken Pfizer to court for patent violations. GSK filed the lawsuit in a US federal court in Delaware on Wednesday alleging that Pfizer’s RSV vaccine, Abrysvo, violates four patents surrounding the antigen […] Continue reading -> Dengue Cases Soar in Americas as Mosquitoes Find New Habitats 02/08/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of dengue cases in the Americas has surpassed three million this year, as climate change makes people more vulnerable to the disease and the world more hospitable to the mosquitoes that carry it. Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns are providing a boon to the Aedis aegypti mosquito, the main carrier of dengue. […] Continue reading -> US Consolidates Efforts to Address Pandemics, HIV and Other Global Health Threats into Single Bureau 02/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan The US has consolidated its efforts to address global health threats into a single structure, the Bureau of Global Heath Security and Diplomacy, which was launched on Monday. Renowned Cameroonian health expert Dr John Nkengasong, appointed last year to lead the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leads the new structure and will […] Continue reading -> Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safest for Older People 02/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Uganda’s PEPFAR Grant Likely to Go Ahead, as UN Human Rights Office is Closed 07/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan Most of the $500 million in US support for Uganda’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, financed by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), is likely to go ahead next month despite the country’s draconian new Anti-Homosexuality Act, according to sources close to the process. However, it is still possible that some parts of the PEPFAR […] Continue reading -> Healthier Diets, Lifestyles and Cities: Bloomberg’s Kelly Henning Reflects on a 16-Year Partnership with WHO 04/08/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 300 million people have been protected from becoming smokers in the 15 years since WHO launched the ‘MPOWER’ package of recommended policies for reducing smoking prevalence in countries worldwide, declared Kelly Henning, of Bloomberg Philanthropies, at a press conference in Geneva this week. She was speaking at a WHO briefing launching the 2023 WHO […] Continue reading -> North America Has World’s Lowest Exclusive Breastfeeding Rate 03/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan Barely over a quarter of babies in North America are exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life – far lower than anywhere else in the world. The US has yet to sign the International Code on Marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes, adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1981 to curb the aggressive marketing […] Continue reading -> ‘Women Deliver’: Protecting Safe Spaces as Attacks on Gender Equality Increase 03/08/2023 Yvonne Mpambara The Women Deliver conference is one of the world’s largest gatherings on gender equity and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This year, amidst a global backlash against the rights of women and people of diverse genders, the meeting was held for the first time in Africa in Rwanda from 17-20 July. More than […] Continue reading -> GSK Sues Pfizer for Patent Violations over its RSV Vaccine 03/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Merely months after securing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine, British pharma giant GSK has taken Pfizer to court for patent violations. GSK filed the lawsuit in a US federal court in Delaware on Wednesday alleging that Pfizer’s RSV vaccine, Abrysvo, violates four patents surrounding the antigen […] Continue reading -> Dengue Cases Soar in Americas as Mosquitoes Find New Habitats 02/08/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of dengue cases in the Americas has surpassed three million this year, as climate change makes people more vulnerable to the disease and the world more hospitable to the mosquitoes that carry it. Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns are providing a boon to the Aedis aegypti mosquito, the main carrier of dengue. […] Continue reading -> US Consolidates Efforts to Address Pandemics, HIV and Other Global Health Threats into Single Bureau 02/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan The US has consolidated its efforts to address global health threats into a single structure, the Bureau of Global Heath Security and Diplomacy, which was launched on Monday. Renowned Cameroonian health expert Dr John Nkengasong, appointed last year to lead the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leads the new structure and will […] Continue reading -> Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safest for Older People 02/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Healthier Diets, Lifestyles and Cities: Bloomberg’s Kelly Henning Reflects on a 16-Year Partnership with WHO 04/08/2023 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Some 300 million people have been protected from becoming smokers in the 15 years since WHO launched the ‘MPOWER’ package of recommended policies for reducing smoking prevalence in countries worldwide, declared Kelly Henning, of Bloomberg Philanthropies, at a press conference in Geneva this week. She was speaking at a WHO briefing launching the 2023 WHO […] Continue reading -> North America Has World’s Lowest Exclusive Breastfeeding Rate 03/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan Barely over a quarter of babies in North America are exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life – far lower than anywhere else in the world. The US has yet to sign the International Code on Marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes, adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1981 to curb the aggressive marketing […] Continue reading -> ‘Women Deliver’: Protecting Safe Spaces as Attacks on Gender Equality Increase 03/08/2023 Yvonne Mpambara The Women Deliver conference is one of the world’s largest gatherings on gender equity and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This year, amidst a global backlash against the rights of women and people of diverse genders, the meeting was held for the first time in Africa in Rwanda from 17-20 July. More than […] Continue reading -> GSK Sues Pfizer for Patent Violations over its RSV Vaccine 03/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Merely months after securing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine, British pharma giant GSK has taken Pfizer to court for patent violations. GSK filed the lawsuit in a US federal court in Delaware on Wednesday alleging that Pfizer’s RSV vaccine, Abrysvo, violates four patents surrounding the antigen […] Continue reading -> Dengue Cases Soar in Americas as Mosquitoes Find New Habitats 02/08/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of dengue cases in the Americas has surpassed three million this year, as climate change makes people more vulnerable to the disease and the world more hospitable to the mosquitoes that carry it. Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns are providing a boon to the Aedis aegypti mosquito, the main carrier of dengue. […] Continue reading -> US Consolidates Efforts to Address Pandemics, HIV and Other Global Health Threats into Single Bureau 02/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan The US has consolidated its efforts to address global health threats into a single structure, the Bureau of Global Heath Security and Diplomacy, which was launched on Monday. Renowned Cameroonian health expert Dr John Nkengasong, appointed last year to lead the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leads the new structure and will […] Continue reading -> Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safest for Older People 02/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
North America Has World’s Lowest Exclusive Breastfeeding Rate 03/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan Barely over a quarter of babies in North America are exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life – far lower than anywhere else in the world. The US has yet to sign the International Code on Marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes, adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1981 to curb the aggressive marketing […] Continue reading -> ‘Women Deliver’: Protecting Safe Spaces as Attacks on Gender Equality Increase 03/08/2023 Yvonne Mpambara The Women Deliver conference is one of the world’s largest gatherings on gender equity and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This year, amidst a global backlash against the rights of women and people of diverse genders, the meeting was held for the first time in Africa in Rwanda from 17-20 July. More than […] Continue reading -> GSK Sues Pfizer for Patent Violations over its RSV Vaccine 03/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Merely months after securing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine, British pharma giant GSK has taken Pfizer to court for patent violations. GSK filed the lawsuit in a US federal court in Delaware on Wednesday alleging that Pfizer’s RSV vaccine, Abrysvo, violates four patents surrounding the antigen […] Continue reading -> Dengue Cases Soar in Americas as Mosquitoes Find New Habitats 02/08/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of dengue cases in the Americas has surpassed three million this year, as climate change makes people more vulnerable to the disease and the world more hospitable to the mosquitoes that carry it. Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns are providing a boon to the Aedis aegypti mosquito, the main carrier of dengue. […] Continue reading -> US Consolidates Efforts to Address Pandemics, HIV and Other Global Health Threats into Single Bureau 02/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan The US has consolidated its efforts to address global health threats into a single structure, the Bureau of Global Heath Security and Diplomacy, which was launched on Monday. Renowned Cameroonian health expert Dr John Nkengasong, appointed last year to lead the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leads the new structure and will […] Continue reading -> Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safest for Older People 02/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
‘Women Deliver’: Protecting Safe Spaces as Attacks on Gender Equality Increase 03/08/2023 Yvonne Mpambara The Women Deliver conference is one of the world’s largest gatherings on gender equity and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This year, amidst a global backlash against the rights of women and people of diverse genders, the meeting was held for the first time in Africa in Rwanda from 17-20 July. More than […] Continue reading -> GSK Sues Pfizer for Patent Violations over its RSV Vaccine 03/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Merely months after securing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine, British pharma giant GSK has taken Pfizer to court for patent violations. GSK filed the lawsuit in a US federal court in Delaware on Wednesday alleging that Pfizer’s RSV vaccine, Abrysvo, violates four patents surrounding the antigen […] Continue reading -> Dengue Cases Soar in Americas as Mosquitoes Find New Habitats 02/08/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of dengue cases in the Americas has surpassed three million this year, as climate change makes people more vulnerable to the disease and the world more hospitable to the mosquitoes that carry it. Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns are providing a boon to the Aedis aegypti mosquito, the main carrier of dengue. […] Continue reading -> US Consolidates Efforts to Address Pandemics, HIV and Other Global Health Threats into Single Bureau 02/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan The US has consolidated its efforts to address global health threats into a single structure, the Bureau of Global Heath Security and Diplomacy, which was launched on Monday. Renowned Cameroonian health expert Dr John Nkengasong, appointed last year to lead the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leads the new structure and will […] Continue reading -> Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safest for Older People 02/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
GSK Sues Pfizer for Patent Violations over its RSV Vaccine 03/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Merely months after securing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine, British pharma giant GSK has taken Pfizer to court for patent violations. GSK filed the lawsuit in a US federal court in Delaware on Wednesday alleging that Pfizer’s RSV vaccine, Abrysvo, violates four patents surrounding the antigen […] Continue reading -> Dengue Cases Soar in Americas as Mosquitoes Find New Habitats 02/08/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of dengue cases in the Americas has surpassed three million this year, as climate change makes people more vulnerable to the disease and the world more hospitable to the mosquitoes that carry it. Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns are providing a boon to the Aedis aegypti mosquito, the main carrier of dengue. […] Continue reading -> US Consolidates Efforts to Address Pandemics, HIV and Other Global Health Threats into Single Bureau 02/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan The US has consolidated its efforts to address global health threats into a single structure, the Bureau of Global Heath Security and Diplomacy, which was launched on Monday. Renowned Cameroonian health expert Dr John Nkengasong, appointed last year to lead the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leads the new structure and will […] Continue reading -> Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safest for Older People 02/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Dengue Cases Soar in Americas as Mosquitoes Find New Habitats 02/08/2023 Stefan Anderson The number of dengue cases in the Americas has surpassed three million this year, as climate change makes people more vulnerable to the disease and the world more hospitable to the mosquitoes that carry it. Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns are providing a boon to the Aedis aegypti mosquito, the main carrier of dengue. […] Continue reading -> US Consolidates Efforts to Address Pandemics, HIV and Other Global Health Threats into Single Bureau 02/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan The US has consolidated its efforts to address global health threats into a single structure, the Bureau of Global Heath Security and Diplomacy, which was launched on Monday. Renowned Cameroonian health expert Dr John Nkengasong, appointed last year to lead the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leads the new structure and will […] Continue reading -> Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safest for Older People 02/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
US Consolidates Efforts to Address Pandemics, HIV and Other Global Health Threats into Single Bureau 02/08/2023 Kerry Cullinan The US has consolidated its efforts to address global health threats into a single structure, the Bureau of Global Heath Security and Diplomacy, which was launched on Monday. Renowned Cameroonian health expert Dr John Nkengasong, appointed last year to lead the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leads the new structure and will […] Continue reading -> Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safest for Older People 02/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy
Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safest for Older People 02/08/2023 Megha Kaveri Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts