‘Groundbreaking’ antibiotic set to turn tide on drug-resistant ‘super-gonorrhoea’ if used wisely
The trial enrolled 930 people with gonorrhoea in South Africa, Thailand, the United States, Belgium and the Netherlands. Participants received either zoliflodacin – given as a pill – or the disease’s standard treatment, an injection of an antibiotic called ceftriaxone, in combination with an oral dose of the antibiotic azithromycin.
WHO increasingly looks more like a scheme for extracting private profit from the public purse
It is irrational to support corrupted institutions, but rational to support improvements in health and well-being. It is rational (and decent) to help populations who, through accidents of history such as past colonial exploitation or other misfortune, lack the means to fully address their own basic healthcare.
How top US officials coerced virologists to label Covid link to Wuhan lab a ‘conspiracy theory’
A week later, a February 26, 2020, commentary in Emerging Microbes & Infections repeated claims that lab-leak theory was a conspiracy theory. The paper was written by virologists – including Linda Saif, of Ohio State University – working behind the scenes with Baric and Shi Zhengli, who conducted research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
US top officials with ties to Wuhan Institute still fighting to discredit Covid link to Chinese lab
A report by the US House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released in July found that Fauci and other key scientists and government officials used the paper as a means to suppress the Covid-19 lab-leak theory.
Beauty and the beast: Thousands of Black women in US diagnosed with uterine cancer linked to hair relaxers
The American Cancer Society estimates there will be about 66,000 new cases of uterine cancer diagnosed this year in the United States, less than a quarter of the number of 297,790 new cases of invasive breast cancer, and more than three times the 19,710 cases of ovarian cancer.
AstraZeneca plans to expand its Cancer Care project beyond Kenya’s largest referral hospital
By boosting equitable access to state-of-the-art technology that can provide early and accurate detection, the donation is expected to enhance survival rates among prostate cancer patients significantly.
Fired for rejecting Covid vaccination reinstated New York teachers offers hope for others
Some of the workers, along with Teachers For Choice, sued the city in February, in a lawsuit sponsored in part by CHD and CHD New York. The suit also sought class-action certification for all DOE workers who were denied religious exemptions. Judge Ralph Porzio denied the motion to grant class status, a ruling the plaintiffs are appealing.
Surveillance fears emerge over why Bill Gates is pushing President Ruto to endorse digital IDs for newborns in Kenya
Some experts said they believe the Maisha Namba programme has other, unannounced, aims. Dr Wahome Ngare, chairman of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, told The Defender that Maisha Namba will operate as a vaccination tracking programme.
Merchants of death: How Pfizer hid nearly 80 per cent of Covid vaccine trial deaths from regulators
79 per cent of relevant deaths were not recorded in time to be included in Pfizer’s regulatory paperwork. By not including relevant subject deaths in the case report, Pfizer obscured cardiac adverse event signals, allowing the EUA to proceed unchallenged.
Public health: US presidential candidate labels Bill Gates a powerful man who could ‘corrupt the whole system’
The Gates Foundation, which holds shares in a range of drug companies including Merck, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, is now credited with wielding significant influence over the direction of the global response to the pandemic, saying its goal is to “vaccinate the entire world” with a Covid-19 vaccine.
