FDA halts sales of Juul e-cigarettes in nicotine crackdown
A man uses a vape device The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday blocked Juul Labs Inc from selling its e-cigarettes in the United States, potentially dealing a fatal blow…
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Pfizer Sets Sights On Elimination Of Blinding Disease Trachoma By 2030
Photo: MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP Pfizer on Thursday said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation programme aimed at eliminating trachoma, an eye disease…
Monkeypox: FG Warns Nigerians Against Bush Meat Consumption
This handout picture depicts the dorsal surfaces of a monkeypox case in a patient who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage. Photo: AFP Following…
Nigeria Has No Laboratories Where Monkeypox Virus is Generated.
A recent report on social media has come to our attention, said to have been released by the Chief of Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force, containing allegations: That…
Monkeypox Kills 40-Year-Old As Nigeria Confirms 21 Cases In Nine States
This handout picture depicts the dorsal surfaces of a monkeypox case in a patient who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage. Photo: AFP Nigeria…
WHO says monkeypox ‘containable’ as more governments start limited vaccinations
An electron microscopic (EM) image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virus particles as well as crescents and spherical particles of immature virions The outbreak of monkeypox cases outside of Africa can…
WHO confirms 131 monkeypox cases outside Africa, says outbreak ‘containable’
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said there have been 131 confirmed monkeypox cases and 106 further suspected cases since the first was reported on May 7, outside the…
Fate of ancient Athens guides WHO at gathering to plan for next pandemic
The plague of Athens, painted by Nicolas Poussin. The disease killed leader Pericles and his supporters and enemies alike Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization…
COVID-19: AstraZeneca says EU regulator approves shot as booster
Drugmaker AstraZeneca (AZN.L) said on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine, Vaxzevria, has been approved in the European Union by the bloc’s drugs regulator as a third-dose booster in adults following a…
COVID-19: Pfizer says 3 shots elicit good response in children under 5
A child reacts while receiving a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (covid-19) vaccine Drugmakers Pfizer Inc PFE.N and BioNTech SE 22UAy.DE said on Monday that three doses of their…