Health

Understand the long-term consequences of COVID-19: WHO

Shawdesh Desk: With a surge in the number of long COVID cases and the implication of the ever-expanding list of lingering symptoms on people, health organizations in and around the

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Chinese vaccines sweep much of the world, despite concerns

Shawdesh Desk: The plane laden with vaccines had just rolled to a stop at Santiago’s airport in late January, and Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera, was beaming. “Today,” he said, “is

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COVID-19: UN experts urge WTO cooperation on vaccines to protect global public health

Shawdesh desk: UN experts on Monday (March 1) said billions of people, especially in the Global South, risk being excluded from the benefits of COVID-19 immunisation until 2024 and urged

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Covid vaccine: Germany urged to back AstraZeneca jab for over-65s

Shawdesh Desk: A senior German immunologist has urged his country to change its mind and start allowing over-65s to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. In a BBC interview, Carsten Watzl, head

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Diet high in poor quality carbohydrates linked to heart attacks, death risk

Shawdesh Desk: A new study has found that consuming a diet high in poor quality carbohydrates has many ill effects ranging from a higher risk of heart attacks to strokes,

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Large real world study confirms Pfizer Covid vaccine 94% effective

Shawdesh desk: The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine has proven 94 percent effective in a study involving 1.2 million people in Israel, the first peer-reviewed real world research confirming the power of

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Ghana is first nation in world to receive COVAX vaccines

Shawdesh Desk: Ghana has become the first country in the world to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery Wednesday of 600,000 doses of the

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Covid vaccines – ‘spectacular’ impact on serious illness

Shawdesh Desk: The first data on the UK Covid vaccine rollout suggests it is having a “spectacular” impact on stopping serious illness, researchers say. Within weeks, one shot reduces the

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