March 12, 2021

One-Third Of U.S. Adults Continue To Be Hesitant About COVID-19 Vaccines

More than one-third of nonelderly U.S. adults say they are unlikely to get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a report released by the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
March 12, 2021

UK Charity’s Pharma Investments Raise Questions Of Transparency And Accountability

The Wellcome Trust, a UK charity that is one of the world's top funders of health research, stands to gain financially from the COVID-19 pandemic, reports the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
March 12, 2021

Pfizer Demands Latin American Governments Offer State Assets To Secure COVID-19 Vaccine Deals

Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American governments in COVID-19 vaccine negotiations and has even asked some of them to put up sovereign assets such as military bases as a guarantee against the cost of any future legal cases, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has revealed.
March 12, 2021

Children Aged 5 Put On Antidepressants In The UK

Antidepressants are being prescribed to children as young as five in the UK.
March 5, 2021

Expert Group In Norway To Assess Deaths Reported Following Coronavirus Vaccination

The Norwegian Medicines Agency has set up an expert group to review 102 deaths amongst frail elderly people following vaccination against coronavirus.
March 5, 2021

Vitamin D Deficiency Increases Hospitalization Risk In Older Population

Vitamin D deficiency increases the likelihood of hospitalization and the length of stay in the population aged over 60, according to a cross-sectional study of over 3,000 people.
March 5, 2021

Vitamin D ‘Necessary’ For COVID-19 Treatment, Says Spanish Society

Vitamin D supplementation should be a standardized practice to treat COVID-19 in hospitalized older patients, according to a newly published position statement by the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology.
March 5, 2021

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy Sentenced To Jail For Corruption

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption.