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Lalita Panicker

WHO continues PHEIC designation for COVID-19; The latest health stories from around the world

February 7, 2023 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

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www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-pandemic-declarations-job-satisfaction-covid-19-era-and-nuclear-powered? Three years after it started, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the World Health Organization (WHO) declared this week. But a special emergency committee for the disease hinted that the designation—which gives WHO recommendations more heft and can influence travel and quarantine policies—might end later this […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, News, Newsletter Tagged With: Breast cancer, COVID-19, measles, rubella, vaccines, WHO

Renewed fears of a bird flu pandemic; The latest health stories from around the world

January 31, 2023 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

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When mink at a big farm in Galicia, a region in north-western Spain, started to die in October 2022, veterinarians initially thought the culprit might be SARS-CoV-2, which has struck mink farms in several other countries. But lab tests soon revealed something scarier: A deadly avian influenza virus named H5N1. Authorities immediately placed workers on […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter Tagged With: bird flu, COVID-19, Immunity gap, vaccines

Marion Biotech to be investigated by Indian drug regulator

January 5, 2023 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

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India’s health minister Mansukh Mandaviya has announced that manufacturing activities of Marion Biotech’s unit near the national capital Delhi have been stopped following an inspection by India’s apex drugs regulating body. https://thewire.in/government/uzbekistan-cough-syrup-noida-marion-biotech-mandaviya. Uzbek authorities had announced that consumption of a cough syrup produced by the company had led to the deaths of 18 children in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Stories, Medicine and Research, National, News, Newsletter Tagged With: Marion Biotech

Sesame to be added to list of major food allergens

January 4, 2023 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

Starting January 1, sesame will join the list of major food allergens defined by law, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. The change comes as a result of the Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education and Research Act, or FASTER Act, which was signed into law in April 2021. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/29/health/sesame-joins-major-food-allergens-list-fda-wellness/index.html? The FDA has been […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, News, Newsletter Tagged With: allergens, FDA, Sesame

Approval of Alzheimer’s drug “rife with irregularities”

January 4, 2023 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

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US drug regulators failed to follow their own guidance and practices when they approved the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, a congressional report said on Thursday. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/29/biogen-fda-alzheimers-aduhelm-congressional-report? The US food and drug administration’s (FDA) process of approval, it said, had been “rife with irregularities”, and the FDA’s interactions with maker Biogen had been “atypical”. The report […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Stories, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases Tagged With: Alzheimer's disease, FDA

Countries across the globe track COVID-19 cases emerging from China

January 3, 2023 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

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The United States (US) is considering sampling wastewater taken from international aircraft to track any emerging new Covid-19 variants as infections surge in China.  UK-based health experts estimate about 9,000 people a days are now dying of the disease in China. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/30/china-covid-experts-estimate-9000-deaths-a-day-as-us-says-it-may-sample-wastewater-from-planes? The proposed testing of wastewater by the US Centers for Disease Control and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, News, Newsletter Tagged With: China, COVID-19

Considerable increase in COVID-19 deaths in China; The latest health stories from around the world

December 28, 2022 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

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More than 5,000 people are probably dying each day from COVID-19 in China, health data firm Airfinity estimated, offering a dramatic contrast to official data from Beijing on the country’s current outbreak.www.medscape.com/viewarticle/986013?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=398271FG&impID=5026929&faf=1 The UK-based firm said it had used modelling based on regional Chinese data to produce figures that also put current daily infections in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, News, Newsletter Tagged With: BioNTech, COVID-19, Malaria

Bio Farma to produce Merck & Co’s HPV vaccine

December 23, 2022 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

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In a bid to combat HPV-linked cervical cancer in the country Indonesia will produce drugmaker Merck & Co’s vaccines for human papillomavirus (HPV), the chief of its state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma said last Tuesday,. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/985471?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=398271FG&impID=4990446&faf=1 Cervical cancer is the fourth-most common cancer among women globally, with an estimated 604,000 new cases and 342,000 deaths […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured, Featured Stories, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter Tagged With: Bio Farma, cervical cancer, HPV, Merck & Co

Court dismisses Zantac claims

December 22, 2022 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

Thousands of consumers who sued makers of the popular heartburn drug Zantac, alleging it caused them to develop cancer, failed to present a reliable scientific basis for their claims, a U.S. District Court judge in Florida said when she dismissed their lawsuits last week. In 2020, the Food and Drug Administration requested recalls of the […]

Filed Under: Featured, International, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases Tagged With: cancer, Zantac

Jeremy Farrar, to take on chief scientist role at WHO

December 21, 2022 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, one of the largest nongovernmental science funders, will step down early next year to become the chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). He will replace Soumya Swaminathan, the first person to hold the post. Swaminathan, a paediatrician, announced last month that she would be leaving to focus on […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Stories, International, News, Newsletter, Profiles Tagged With: Jeremy Farrar, Wellcome Trust, WHO

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