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‘The problem with the National Academies’ long Covid report’: US expert
Overly broad criteria for long Covid won’t help patients in the long run, argues Dr Leonard Jason in Medpage Today, after the US National...
Two-in-one flu/Covid jab passes trial with flying colours
Moderna says its combined flu and Covid vaccine, which targets the two diseases in a single shot, has passed a vital part of final-stage...
New long Covid definition proposed by US National Academies
America’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has proposed a new definition of long Covid – one requiring no lab confirmation or...
Covid link to aggressive rare cancers, suggest scientists
Increasingly, scientists are suggesting that the proliferation of aggressive cancers – including previously very rare forms of the disease – since the Covid-19 pandemic...
Wrong to label woman ‘anti-vaxxer’ for refusing Covid jab, rules UK court
A Scottish judge has ruled that the NHS must compensate an ultrasound technician after she was called an “anti-vaxxer” for refusing the Covid-19 shot...
SA children’s suffering in poor areas worse during pandemic
Certain categories of South African children were profoundly affected during the pandemic, research has shown, with six out of 10 being exposed to depressed...
US National Academies' report underscores severity of long Covid
One of America’s premier medical advisory organisations has weighed in on long Covid with a 265-page report that recognises the seriousness and persistence of...
Fauci feels the heat at hearing over Covid
Former director of the UN National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr Anthony Fauci testified this week at a sub-committee House hearing about...
Global pandemic treaty talks grind to a halt
Global deliberations on an international treaty that could unite the world in a strategy against another pandemic have been unsuccessful, with countries failing to...
Scientists uncover cause of severe Covid lung disease
A recent study has shed light on the mystery of why, in some severe Covid-19 cases, the lungs undergo extreme damage, resulting in various...
Increase in Covid-19 activity abroad
A rise in Covid infections has been reported both in Singapore and in the United Kingdom, authorities have said.
Singapore’s Health Ministry said cases were...
Covid wiped out decade of life expectancy progress
The recently released World Health Statistics 2024 report urges countries to redouble their efforts towards health-related sustainable development goals by 2030, as the pandemic...
South African among anti-vaxxers at African conference
The World Health Organisation came under fire as zealous right-wing African members of Parliament, including some of the continent’s most vociferous anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQI...
More of Big Pharma's Covid vaccine bully tactics laid bare
With the release of a second tranche of information showing how South Africa was bullied into paying outrageously high prices for its Covid-19 vaccines,...
Genetics tied to Covid jab blood clots, say scientists
An autoimmune reaction, to which some people are predisposed, was responsible for the rare but deadly blood clots associated with the Johnson & Johnson...
Death risk from Covid still higher than from flu – US study
Researchers have determined that the risk of death from Covid-19 infection is still higher than it is from flu.
Using data from the Clinical Epidemiology...
Masks didn’t stop infections after first Omicron wave – UK report
Wearing face masks may not have lowered the risk of Covid infection after the first Omicron wave, research has shown, but nevertheless, it still...
New post-Covid syndrome found in UK-US study
Scientists in the UK and US have discovered a previously overlooked Covid-related syndrome which has now resulted in a paper in eBioMedicine, a journal...
Covid-19 vaccines don’t cause many harms, US review finds
The Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna do not cause conditions like female infertility, myocardial infarction, Bell palsy, or Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults.
This...
Lest we forget, the AstraZeneca vaccine also saved millions
Last week’s announcement that AstraZeneca would no longer market its Covid vaccine brings an end to one of the century’s most remarkable medical stories.
Although...
Chinese scientist who first leaked Covid sequence back in lab after lockout
The scientist who in 2020 published the first sequence of the virus that causes Covid-19 has been let back into his Shanghai lab after...
Insufficient research on Covid jab side effects despite thousands of complaints
Increasing numbers of people are claiming to have suffered lasting side effects from Covid-19 jabs, yet they – and various experts, including medical professionals...
Scientists find Paxlovid does not shorten Covid symptoms in fully jabbed
Researchers have suggested that for people who are fully vaccinated but have at least one risk factor for severe Covid, the antiviral drug Paxlovid...
Unpacking Covid-19's effect on the gut
Covid-19, which is not just a respiratory infection, can cause symptoms throughout the body, with gastrointestinal symptoms being common in both acute and long...
Fake, social media Covid post ‘misleading’
The Health Department has dismissed social media reports of a new Covid-19 variant and asked the public to ignore the misleading message, saying the...
Doctor’s HPCSA hearing over Covid vaccine comments begins
A disciplinary hearing against doctor Shankara Chetty began in Durban last week after Wits University Professor Francois Venter lodged a complaint against him with...
Multiple forms of long Covid hamper diagnosis
Thousands of people around the world may be suffering from long Covid but are not being diagnosed or treated, say experts, because symptoms can...
Global leaders call for urgent agreement on pandemic deal
A group of more than 100 global leaders has called for governments to reach agreement on an international deal to prepare for and prevent...
Decoding some of Covid’s mysteries, four years on
When the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question, like...
‘Pandemic babies’ have stronger gut health – Irish study
Scientists have discovered that Covid-19 “pandemic babies” appear to have developed a “protection” against allergies that is unique to them, saying lockdown restrictions allowed...
Man shows no severe effects after 217 Covid jabs
A German man claiming to have received 217 Covid-19 vaccines in just 29 months isn’t reacting the way some scientists thought he would.
The 62-year-old...
Undiagnosed diabetes added to Covid death toll
A recent study found that patients with undiagnosed diabetes represented 21.1% of all Covid-19 hospitalisations and 30.5% of all Covid-19 deaths across eight low-...
Persistent Covid more common than thought – UK study
British researchers have found that a higher percentage of the population than initially assumed has had “persistent” Covid-19 infections lasting more than 30 days,...
Scientists find possible Covid ‘brain fog’ cause – Irish study
The mystery surrounding the “brain fog” suffered by people with long Covid may finally have been revealed – with researchers saying that leaky blood...
Medics struggled to break death news during Covid – SA study
Breaking bad news is now an integral part of most healthcare professional training, but it’s important to teach how to do it using different...