Medical specialties
Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccine
For years, global health officials have used billions of drops of an oral vaccine in a remarkably effective campaign aimed at wiping out polio in its last remaining strongholds, typically, poor, politically unstable corners of the world.
Article on ‘fat’ Arab women sparks uproar over body-shaming
To Enas Taleb, the headline felt like a spiteful punch line. "Why women are fatter than men in the Arab world," it read in bold, above a photograph of the Iraqi actress waving onstage at an arts festival.
The start of the school year might be postponed?
Epidemiologist Branislav Tiodorovi said today the medical part of the crisis headquarters might propose delaying the start of the school year by seven days.
He said that in ten days they will assess the epidemic situation.
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COVID-19 cases likely to increase in September, says expert
With COVID-19 continuing to infect people, according to the weekly statistics of the Health Ministry, an expert has warned citizens of another possible increase in cases in September.
COVID-19: New Changes to Quarantine Measures in Bulgaria
Mandatory isolation for those sick with COVID-19 is officially reduced from 10 to 7 days. This was stated at a briefing before the Ministry of Health by Professor Angel Kunchev - Chief State Health Inspector.
Pfizer CEO Bourla has Covid-19
He has received 4 doses of his company’s vaccine
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UK is first to approve Omicron Vaccine against COVID-19
Britain has become the first country in the world to approve a bivalent vaccine against COVID-19, which "works" simultaneously against the original and the current version of the Omicron coronavirus.
Rushdie on ‘road to recovery’ after stabbing
Salman Rushdie is on the road to recovery and showing signs of his "feisty and defiant" self, family and friends said Sunday, days after a shocking assault left him on a ventilator with multiple stab wounds.
Just hours after Friday's attack at a literary event in western New York state, the British author had undergone emergency surgery for potentially life-threatening injuries.
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New treatment for a root cause of asthma proves promising in mice tests
Asthma is triggered by inhaled allergens like dust mites which can cause inflammatory reactions that constrict the airways & impair a person’s breathing
Long COVID symptoms ‘affect one in eight’
One in eight people who get coronavirus develop at least one symptom of long COVID, one of the most comprehensive studies on the condition to date has suggested.
With more than half a billion coronavirus cases recorded worldwide since the start of the pandemic, there has been rising concern about the lasting symptoms seen in people with long COVID.
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