French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering HIV and more recently spread false claims about the coronavirus, has died at age 89, local government …
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US CDC Proposes Revised Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Thursday issued a draft of revised guidelines for prescribing opioid painkillers, urging doctors to be flexible and individualize their use of …
your ads here!Macron Bets on Nuclear in Carbon-Neutrality Push, Announces New Reactors
France will build at least six new nuclear reactors in the decades to come, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, placing nuclear power at the heart of his country’s drive …
your ads here!Cameroon Struggling to Contain Deadly Cholera Outbreak
Cameroonian health authorities say at least 1,300 cholera cases have been detected, with nearly three dozen people dying as a result of the outbreak within the past two weeks. Cameroon’s …
your ads here!New COVID-19 Study Highlights Suicide Risk to Health Care Workers
A new study says 1 in 10 Australian health care workers has had thoughts of suicide or self-harm during the pandemic. The authors of the Australian Frontline Health Workers survey …
your ads here!Senegal Facility Plans to Start COVID Vaccine Production
The COVID pandemic exposed stark vaccine inequities between high- and low-income nations and underscored Africa’s dependence on outside countries for jabs. However, a new initiative in Senegal hopes to reduce …
your ads here!Study Finds Anxiety, Depression Prevalent Among Somali Health Workers
Health care workers in Somalia suffer from high rates of anxiety, depression and stress because of their work with COVID-19 cases, a new study finds. The study was presented at …
your ads here!CDC on Lifting COVID-19 Indoor Mask Rules: ‘We Aren’t There Yet’
The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that even though she was encouraged by dropping COVID-19 hospitalizations and case rates, the pandemic was still …
your ads here!SpaceX Satellites Brought Down in Geomagnetic Storm
SpaceX says a geomagnetic storm brought down 40 satellites launched last Thursday as part of its Starlink satellite internet service. In a release posted to the company’s website, the private …
your ads here!WHO Says Crucial Supplies Not Reaching Embattled Northern Ethiopia
World Health Organization officials say insecurity and bureaucratic difficulties continue to prevent medical supplies and other crucial relief from reaching millions of beleaguered civilians in conflict-ridden northern Ethiopia. An estimated …
your ads here!COVID-19 Researchers See Hope in Existing Drugs
An international collaboration led by researchers in Canada and Brazil is applying innovative funding and testing methods to determine whether existing medications can provide cheaper and more effective treatments for …
your ads here!Report Calls for New US Strategy for Opioids
The U.S. needs a nimble, multipronged strategy and Cabinet-level leadership to counter its festering overdose epidemic, a bipartisan congressional commission advises. With vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl driving record …
your ads here!World Must Work Together to Tackle Plastic Ocean Threat: WWF
Paris — Plastic has infiltrated all parts of the ocean and is now found “in the smallest plankton up to the largest whale” wildlife group WWF said on Tuesday, calling …
your ads here!‘Amazing’ New Beans Could Save Coffee From Climate Change
Millions of people around the world enjoy a daily cup of coffee; however, their daily caffeine fix could be under threat because climate change is killing coffee plants, putting farmers’ …
your ads here!Pope Decries Female Genital Mutilation, Sex Trafficking of Women
Pope Francis on Sunday decried the genital mutilation of millions of girls and the trafficking of women for sex, including openly on city streets, so others can make money off …
your ads here!New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for United Battle Against COVID
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in an address on the nation’s Waitangi Day observance that the country has an obligation to make sure everyone has access to the …
your ads here!US Lawmakers Propose Bipartisan Probe of COVID-19 Origins and Response
In the two years since COVID-19 began ravaging the United States, virtually every aspect of the pandemic has been politicized, often to the detriment of efforts to bring the disease …
your ads here!Oceans Are Warmer Than Ever, Creating Chaotic Global Weather
The oceans got even warmer last year than the year before, supercharging already extreme weather patterns worldwide, according to a recent report published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. …
your ads here!Philippines Walks Back Ban on Unvaccinated Travelers on Public Transportation
The Philippines has suspended a heavily criticized policy banning the unvaccinated from public transportation in Metro Manila as a COVID-19 surge, caused by omicron variant, has subsided. Daily cases in …
your ads here!The Week in Space: Winter Olympics Edition
NASA says global temperatures are on the rise, and that could spell trouble for future Winter Games. Plus, Australian astronomers discover an unidentified space object, and a pair of satellites …
your ads here!WHO Europe Chief Sees ‘Plausible Endgame’ to Pandemic in Europe
The World Health Organization’s European region director says that while COVID-19 cases on the continent continue to rise, he sees a plausible endgame for the pandemic in Europe in coming …
your ads here!‘Long COVID’ Baffles Patients, Doctors
Crushing fatigue. Brain fog. Trouble breathing weeks after contracting COVID-19. Scientists call it post-acute sequelae of COVID-19. Most people just call it “long COVID.” For millions of people, these and …
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