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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pfizer/BioNTech To Develop mRNA-based Shingles Vaccine