January 21, 2022

Pfizer/BioNTech To Develop mRNA-based Shingles Vaccine

Germany's BioNTech and US pharma giant Pfizer, which together developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time, say they are working on a shingles shot using the same mRNA technology.
January 21, 2022

Vitamin B12 Deficiency Increases Risk Of Depression

Scientists from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing have published new research which examines the relationship between folate and vitamin B12 status and its associations with greater prevalence of depressive symptoms.
January 21, 2022

B Vitamins Have ‘Significantly Favorable Effects’ On Cognitive Scores In Older People

Older people with mild cognitive impairment experienced significant cognitive benefits from supplementation with B vitamins, but only those not using aspirin, says a pooled analyses of two randomized placebo-controlled trials.
January 13, 2022

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte Threatens Unvaccinated People With Arrest

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said that people who have not taken COVID-19 shots will be arrested if they disobey stay-at-home orders.
January 13, 2022

Protests Over Post-Vaccination Deaths Spread Across South Korea

One of the most vaccinated nations on earth is seeing increased public pushback over COVID-19 jabs, as demonstrators in South Korea are demanding accountability for deaths that they blame on the shots.
January 13, 2022

Judge Orders US Food & Drug Administration To Hasten Release Of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Documents

A federal judge in Texas has ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make public the data it relied on to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, imposing a dramatically accelerated schedule that should result in the release of all information within about eight months.
January 13, 2022

No Deaths From Vitamins

The 38th annual report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers shows zero deaths from vitamins.
January 13, 2022

US Federal Judge Rejects Purdue Pharma’s Opioid Bankruptcy Settlement

A US federal judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic because of a provision that would protect members of the Sackler family from facing litigation of their own.