Health
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COVID-flu joint booster jab possible late 2023: Moderna
GENEVA: Moderna aims to roll out a combined COVID-flu-RSV booster vaccine in late 2023, the US pharmaceutical firm said Monday,…
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End mass jabs and live with COVID, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce
COVID should be treated as an endemic virus similar to flu, and ministers should end mass-vaccination after the booster campaign,…
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‘Historic’: US surgeons implant pig heart in human
WASHINGTON: US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first…
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Swedish lab eyes poisoned chalice in malaria fight
STOCKHOLM: Cages meshed over with women’s tights and crawling with mosquitoes are stashed in a Swedish laboratory. Every day, researchers…
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Beauty is only skin deep in China ‘micro-procedure’ craze
Midday queues snake out to the street in an upmarket Shanghai neighborhood, but it’s not lunch at the city’s hottest…
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Work(out) from home: COVID fuels online exercise boom
Interactive comment sections and virtual reality headsets: internet-connected fitness gear and services have boomed during the pandemic as at-home athletes…
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Health first, freedom second? How COVID is changing democracies
PARIS: From a litany of lockdowns to mandatory mask-wearing and COVID passes to access entertainment and sporting venues, the pandemic…
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Jaguar released in Argentina to help endangered species
A jaguar named Jatobazinho was released into a national park in Argentina Friday as part of a program to boost…
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Years after war, health sector ailing in Mosul
Months after a minor motorbike accident, Amer Shaker is still suffering from poor treatment at a hospital in Iraq’s Mosul,…
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Treating COVID patients in secret Myanmar clinics
KAYAH, Myanmar: A handful of Myanmar nurses hiding from the junta have been running makeshift clinics to treat COVID patients…
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Pandemic prognosis: Where does it go from here?
Two years in, as the now Omicron-fuelled COVID crisis rages, there is still hope the pandemic could begin fading in…
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Climate change 2021: Experts say there’s no turning back now
Countries make solid advances in beating back the threat of global warming PARIS: Across a quarter century of UN climate…
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