Turkey unveils deal for 50 mn Sputnik V doses
Turkey announced on Wednesday it has signed a deal for the delivery of 50 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.
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UK orders 60m Pfizer vaccine doses for booster programme
Britain on Wednesday announced that it had ordered 60 million more doses of the Pfizer/BioNtech coronavirus vaccine for a booster programme aimed at protecting the most...
Severe COVID-19 cases can be predicted by new test
As of April 2021, more than 3 million people worldwide have died of COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, researchers developed accurate diagnostic tests and identified health...
Is all exercise equal? How to balance workouts to create the ideal fitness plan
Spring can be an ideal time to try a new exercise routine. Warmer temperatures make it enticing to head outdoors and, this year, more people might...
For deprescribing medications, what the doctor says is key
When an older patient no longer needs a medication or requires less dosage, doctors may consider “deprescribing” the medicine. Deprescribing enables clinicians to stop or reduce...
Scarred by Zika and fearing new COVID-19 variants, Brazilian women say no to another pandemic pregnancy
“We have to avoid a pregnancy,” said Rosa, about the possibility of getting pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic. “My feeling is that I don’t want to...
Researchers develop new smell test for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and COVID-19
A new smell test developed by Queen Mary University of London researchers has been found to be easy to use in patients with Parkinson’s disease, and...
Researchers develop 20-minute saliva-based COVID-19 test
Researchers at the University of Waterloo are developing a new COVID-19 test that can be administered at home using saliva, aiming to deliver a positive or...
Driving behaviors harbor early signals of dementia
Using naturalistic driving data and machine learning techniques, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied...
Study finds people of color more likely to participate in cancer clinical trials
People of color, those with a higher income and younger individuals are more likely to participate in clinical trials during their cancer treatment according to a...
