Health
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At up to $8,000/week, America’s travel nurses keep COVID-hit hospitals afloat
WASHINGTON: For Allyssa Findorff, the decision to hit the road on short-term nursing contracts was an easy one: she’d always…
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Pfizer-BioNTech begin Omicron vaccine trial
Pfizer and BioNTech have begun enrollment for a clinical trial to test the safety and immune response of their Omicron-specific…
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Covax opens new front in pandemic arms race
WASHINGTON: Covax aims to break the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022 by ensuring a steady supply of vaccines at last for…
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The dribble test: How toddlers spot social ties
WASHINGTON: The thought of sharing an ice cream cone with a stranger can trigger feelings of disgust – however that’s…
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Omicron ‘sub-variant’ throws up new coronavirus questions
PARIS/WASHINGTON: Scientists are keeping a close watch on a recently-discovered sub-variant of the Omicron version of the COVID-19 virus to…
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Pakistan proud of pig-to-human heart transplant pioneer
KARACHI: Friends and former classmates of the Pakistan-born surgeon behind the world’s first pig-to-human heart transplant say they earmarked him…
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Adding peanuts to children’s diet can help avoid allergy
PARIS: Including peanuts in children’s diets early in life could help stave off allergies against the legume, which can be…
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Giant coral reef found off Tahiti
PARIS: Scientists have discovered a vast reef of “pristine” rose-shaped corals apparently unharmed by climate change in deep water off…
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Pig kidney transplanted to human
WASHINGTON: A US medical team yesterday announced it had carried out the second-known kidney transplant from a pig to a…
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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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