Dominic Hughes Health Correspondent Reporting fromDouglas, Isle of Man Getty Images The Isle of Man could be the first jurisdiction in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying A law to give terminally ill adults on the Isle of Man the right to end their own lives is entering its final stages, making it potentially … Read more
Conservative MP Dan Poulter, an NHS doctor, opposed the law change, saying that the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs said they “did not believe that the medical harms of nitrous oxide posed anything near the significance of many other street drugs or indeed if we look at the harms of alcohol”. Source link
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during celebrations of International Day of The World Indigenous Peoples, in Jhargram, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023 | Photo Credit: PTI The faceoff between West Bengal government and the Raj Bhawan intensified with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accusing the Governor of overstepping constitutional jurisdiction and urged him to … Read more
The vaccine – R21 – was up to 80% effective in early-stage clinical trials. Source link
The upgraded vaccine tackles both the original Covid virus and the newer Omicron variant. Source link
May 11, 2022 — Spain is considering allowing women to take three days off from work per month if they experience severe menstrual pain, making it the first Western nation to offer such a benefit, The Telegraph reported. Menstrual leave is currently offered nationally only in the Zambia, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia, The Telegraph … Read more
Oct. 26, 2021 — The benefits of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 outweigh its risks, according to an independent panel of vaccine experts that advises the FDA. Seventeen of the 18 members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) on Tuesday voted to recommend the 10-microgram shot for … Read more
July 9, 2021 — More and more experts are urging the FDA to grant full approval to the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines because it might jump-start the stalled national vaccination program and slow down the surge of the Delta variant infection. The FDA granted emergency use authorization in December to those two vaccines, … Read more
The claim that Brexit allowed the UK to approve the vaccine faster than other European countries has been disproved but it does reflect once again a different path Britain is taking. All EU countries have the option to follow the UK example and let their domestic drug regulator issue emergency approval, but the bloc says … Read more
Three months after it was signed, the suits from PestFix had still not been released for use in the NHS, despite the rush to get PPE into hospitals. Instead, they were being stored at an NHS supply chain warehouse, in Daventry, waiting for safety assessments. Source link