by Richard A. Hendricks | Jan 20, 2021 | Health News
The variant was first spotted in South Africa in October and has now been found in more than a dozen countries. “I think we should be alarmed,” said Penny Moore, associate professor at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa and the senior author of the study. “Based on Penny’s data, it’s likely […]
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jan 16, 2021 | Health News
The company expects to report details of more advanced trials later this month and is hoping to apply for authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration soon after. Researchers who tested the vaccine in a combined Phase 1-2 trial — mostly meant to show...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Oct 2, 2020 | Health News
The greatest improvements were seen in patients who hadn’t already mounted a natural response to the infection, the company said. The results only involve 275 patients of the 1,000 they have enrolled in this particular trial, but appear “very...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 24, 2020 | Health News
In women, each 10-centimeter increase in belly fat raised the risk of death from any cause by 8%. For men, each 10-centimeter increase in girth raised the risk of by 12%. Those findings are a result of an analysis of 72 studies involving more than 2.5 million...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 18, 2020 | Health News
The novel coronavirus outbreak A coronavirus victim is buried at a cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday, September 8. The novel coronavirus outbreak Maria Hernandez, top, embraces her aunt through a transparent curtain at a nursing home in San Salvador, El...
