Researchers from the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative at the University of Cape Town, the Aurum Institute, the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in...Coronavirus Watch
The B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2, which was first identified in the UK, may be associated with an increased risk of death, a study suggests. The findings, based on an...
March 17th, 2021Despite the World Health Organisation and the European regulator backing continued use, inoculations using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have been suspended in...
Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine does successfully neutralise the more contagious P.1 variant of the virus recently discovered in Brazil, MedicalXpress reports new research...
March 3rd, 2021A study has found no overall effect of statins on the frequency or severity of muscle symptoms compared with placebo in people who had previously reported severe...
February 3rd, 2021Despite the lack of clinical trial and public data on the safety and efficacy of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines, several African countries, including Egypt and Morocco, have...
A blood biomarker of tuberculosis discriminated between people at high risk for tuberculosis and those who remained healthy, but an effective preventive therapy for...
October 7th, 2020At the beginning of the pandemic, there were dire predictions of how the African continent would be affected, writes MedicalBrief. For a number of reasons, reality has...
Russian scientists have published the first report on their coronavirus vaccine, saying early tests showed signs of an immune response. According to a BBC News report,...
August 26th, 2020Claims by a US state governor that in terms of risk to school kids, the coronavirus is lower risk than seasonal influenza are adjudged "mostly true" by a Kaiser Health...
