Passengers wait to board a train at Hongqiao railway station in Shanghai on December 6, 2022. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — As mainland China relaxes many of its stringent Covid controls, analysts point out the country is far from a quick return to a pre-pandemic situation.Continue Reading
China is the only major country which, until now, has continued to enforce a zero-COVID strategy. Other countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, also sought to eliminate COVID entirely earlier in the pandemic. But all eventually abandoned this approach because of the mounting social and economic costs and theContinue Reading
IF you get sick this Christmas, are you confident you’ll get the treatment you need? Or fearful that you won’t? Even before ambulance workers and nurses go on strike later this month, we are increasingly worried about what happens if we call for help. Getty Funding needs to go toContinue Reading
One consequence of the pandemic was reduced access to routine healthcare and lower uptake of immunisations. As a result, in November 2022, the World Health Organization declared measles to be an “imminent threat in every region of the world”. They described how a record number of nearly 40 million childrenContinue Reading
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is preparing next year to spin off its consumer health unit into a publicly traded company separate from its pharmaceutical and medical technology operations. Ahead of the split, Morgan Stanley put out a research note, highlighting some of the debates in the market over the move,Continue Reading
Ovarian cysts often go away on their own. Andrea Raffin/ Shutterstock Model Hailey Bieber recently revealed that she’s been suffering with an ovarian cyst the size of an apple. While we don’t know exactly how many women suffer with ovarian cysts, they are thought to be relatively common – withContinue Reading
AT least six children have died and others are fighting for their lives in hospital after contracting Group A Strep. The highly infectious bacteria is sweeping across the UK, causing a spike in the number of scarlet fever cases. Shutterstock Scarlet fever cases remain higher than normal[/caption] What is StrepContinue Reading
Television personality, author and hair stylist Jonathan Van Ness recently shared on social media his struggles with his eating and weight after “years of feeling out of control with food”. He described suffering from binge-eating disorder – an eating disorder characterised by consuming large amounts of food with a senseContinue Reading
People line up to get a monkeypox vaccination at a new walk-up monkeypox vaccination site at Barnsdall Art Park on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022 in Hollywood, CA. Brian Van Der Brug | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images The Biden administration will end the public health emergency declared in responseContinue Reading
Lightspring/Shutterstock The first drug that can slow the rate of decline in Alzheimer’s patients has been found. The experimental drug, called lecanemab, is an antibody that targets the toxic clumps of amyloid protein associated with the mind-robbing disease. While these results are cause for celebration, there are still significant questionsContinue Reading
