Serious ethical questions pop up over Gates Foundation’s $40m vaccine factories ‘gift’ for Africa
The remaining $10 million will go to vaccine manufacturers, not yet named by the foundation, in low- and middle-income countries. Gates, the ninth-richest man in the world and the foundation’s largest private philanthropic donor, hailed the “exciting” mRNA investment as the crowning announcement in his keynote speech at his 20th annual Grand Challenges meeting attended by scientists and researchers from around the world.
Doctors now doubt accuracy of BMI as prime indicator of obesity and healthy living
In 1972, American physiologist Ancel Keys examined several height-weight indices and found that Quetelet’s was the best predictor of the thickness of body fat. He renamed it the body-mass index and proposed that it was a better indicator of healthy body size than were the height-weight tables commonly used at the time.
Covid origin: Republican senator Rand Paul promises further revelations that Fauci lied
In February, The Wall Street Journal published a report from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) which determined with a “low confidence” rating that Covid-19 originated from a lab in China.
Private profit, social cost: Why governments are accused of complicity in Covid vaccine crimes
The protection against liability is not only in place for the initial vaccine formulation, but for “any or all related strains, mutations, modifications or derivatives of the foregoing that are procured by purchaser.”
Impact of ultrasound in pregnancy: Wellbeing Foundation Africa and GE HealthCare team up for change
According to the World Health Organization, the Maternal Mortality Rate in Nigeria in 2017, was estimated at 917 per 100,000 live births; it increased by nearly 14 per cent in 2020 to reach 1,047 deaths two with evidence suggesting that the increase in rates is due to three common signs of delay: in making the decision to seek maternal healthcare, in locating and arriving at a medical facility, and in receiving skilled pregnancy care when a woman gets to the health facility.
Kenya hospital first in Africa to join global alliance against heart and kidney diseases
The hospital says it has set its focus on the following centres of excellence: cardiovascular, cancer and transplant, maternal and child-health, and ambulatory surgical care. This is achieved through a multi-disciplinary approach using various specialists.
Six CIA whistleblowers received ‘significant financial incentives’ to buy their silence on Covid leaking from Chinese lab
A joint letter from the subcommittee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (Republican-Ohio), sent September 12 to CIA Director William Burns, outlined the testimony of a “multi-decade, senior-level, current agency officer” alleging six of the seven analysts investigating the Covid-19 origins were given a “significant monetary incentive to change their position.”
Drug maker Johnson & Johnson hit by 11,000 more lawsuits linking baby powder to cancer
That price is a little over three times the $26 per dose the federal government paid for the last updated booster, which was exclusively distributed by the government. The price hike marks the vaccine’s move from federal distribution to the commercial market. Moderna and rival manufacturer Pfizer raised the US list price of their Covid-19 vaccines by roughly 400 per cent. (Moderna’s is listed at $128 and Pfizer’s is $115).
Ex-White House’s chief medical advisor Fauci raked in millions from Covid pandemic, earns sky-high pension
Fauci is estimated to be collecting a federal pension that rivals a presidential salary, Andrzejewski added, calling it “the largest federal retirement package in history.”
Study finds women who use beauty products with ‘forever chemicals’ face high risk of cancer
Researchers led by Dr Max Aung of the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, examined data from more than 10,000 people aged 20 or older. he data were collected from 2005-2018 through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a Centres for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance programme.
