Congress sub-committee on health told NIH allowed American entities to ‘conduct risky research on novel coronaviruses’
National security chair of the subcommittee Brad Wenstrup (Republican-Ohio), notes that the Wuhan Institute has a poor track record when it comes to biosafety and was conducting this research at only a level two lab (BSL2 lab) – “described as the ‘Wild West’ by Dr Jeremy Farrar, a virologist from...
Revelations: ‘No doubt’ US National Institutes of Health funded research that resulted in creation of Covid
Dr Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Wednesday said he has “no doubt” the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr Anthony Fauci funded gain-of-function research that likely resulted in the creation of Covid-19 and its subsequent leak. Redfield made the statement...
Email leaks: How senior US, British scientists coerced virologists to write influential article to deny Covid was manufactured
Virologists who worked to squelch consideration of a lab origin of Covid-19 in early 2020 worked in tandem with leaders in scientific research funding, according to their private emails. Leaders of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US and the Wellcome Trust in the UK played an undisclosed...
Latest UN report on maternal deaths says many countries – including US – have fallen behind targets
Many countries, among them Cyprus, Greece and the United States, are falling behind on their goal to slash the rate of maternal deaths this decade, according to an analysis by various United Nations agencies published this week. For every 100,000 babies born in 2020, 223 mothers lost their lives owing...
Islamist rebel attacks linked to soaring mental disorder cases in troubled eastern DR Congo – reports
The M23 insurgency has absorbed the attention of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s government and led to a flurry of regional peace efforts over the past year. Yet the conflict is just one of many driving humanitarian needs in the country. Of the more than 300 armed groups active...
Why China fined GlaxoSmithKline $500 million, deported top executive for bribing doctors to prescribe cancerous drug Zantac
Nevertheless, the warning signs continued to build up. A 1980 report titled “Glaxo, Ranitidine – Cause for Concern,” found that ranitidine could potentially form a potentially dangerous, and cancerous, compound in the stomach. Glaxo, which was seeking FDA approval for Zantac, prepared for “defensive action” to protect itself from the...
Bone marrow therapy: Hope as third Aids patient is treated with HIV-resistant stem cells in Germany
A 53-year-old man in Germany has become at least the third person with HIV to be declared cleared of the virus after a procedure that replaced his bone marrow cells with HIV-resistant stem cells from a donor. For years, antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been given to people with HIV with...
Covid lessons: WHO drafts new code to help world to better prepare for future pandemics
The global response to Covid-19 represented a “catastrophic failure of the international community in showing solidarity and equity”. This frank assessment and admission comes in the opening line of the first or ‘zero’, draft of a new international pandemic agreement, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week. The...
