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U.S. FDA expected to approve boosters of Pfizer’s vaccine for 12-15 year-olds Monday – NYT
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday is planning to authorize booster doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds, the New York Times reported, citing...
Dec 30, 2021
COVID patients in English hospital beds up nearly 10% overnight
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of patients with COVID-19 occupying beds in English hospitals rose to 11,452, official data from NHS England showed on Thursday, up by 990 from a day earlier. The number ...
Dec 30, 2021
Teva fueled opioid addiction in New York, jury finds
By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd fueled opioid addiction in New York state, a jury found on Thursday, a setback for a company still facing thousands of other ...
Dec 30, 2021
Soccer-Inter head into 2022 as dominant force after year to remember
By Alasdair Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - Inter Milan remain the team to beat in Italy heading into 2022 after a year in which they reclaimed the Serie A title and maintained their momentum under new man...
Dec 30, 2021
Top Israeli health official approves second COVID-19 vaccine booster for immunocompromised
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's top health official announced on Thursday that he has approved a second COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for people with weakened immune systems but a final decision on wid...
Dec 30, 2021
Russia extends production of COVID-19 drug remdesivir without patent for a year
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government extended on Thursday its approval for drugmaker Pharmasyntez to produce a generic version of U.S. anti-COVID-19 drug remdesivir without a patent for one year,...
Dec 30, 2021
Turkey’s COVID-19 cases surge to near 40,000, at April levels
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey recorded 39,681 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest number of daily infections since April 28, as Health Minister Fahrettin Koca warned about the growing prevalence...
Dec 30, 2021
Scientists to test high dexamethasone doses in severely ill COVID-19 patients
(Reuters) -British scientists will be studying whether higher doses of a cheap and widely used steroid called dexamethasone could work better for patients with severe COVID-19 compared to the standard...
Dec 30, 2021
Experts warn Omicron ‘blizzard’ to disrupt U.S. for next month
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health experts on Thursday warned Americans that a rising tide of COVID-19 cases led by the Omicron variant threatens major disruptions to their lives, from schools to shop...
Dec 30, 2021
Soccer-Biennial World Cup would ‘cannibalise’ women’s game says UEFA chief
(Reuters) - UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has reiterated his opposition to FIFA's plans to stage a biennial World Cup, saying the women's tournament or the Olympics would be affected if they were ...
Dec 30, 2021
