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UAE approves highly effective new treatment for coronavirus

Editor May 30, 2021

The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has approved the emergency use of a highly effective new treatment for COVID-19, becoming the first country in the world to both licence and enable immediate patient use. Endorsed by the US Food and Drug Administration, the new treatment, from

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Covid-19: Are some vaccines more effective than others?

Editor April 11, 2021

And real-world evidence as millions of people receive the vaccines show they’re all working very well. It’s hard to tell since they weren’t directly compared in studies. But experts say the vaccines are alike on what matters most: preventing hospitalizations and deaths. “Luckily, all these vaccines look like they’re protecting us from severe disease,” said […]

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EU’s drug regulator says AstraZeneca safe and effective vaccine

Editor March 19, 2021

The European Union’s (EU) drug regulatory agency said on Thursday that the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn’t increase the overall incidence of blood clots and that the benefits of using it outweigh the possible risks, paving the way for European countries to resume dispensing the shots. Several European nations, including Germany, France, Italy and Spain, had

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Large real world study confirms Pfizer Covid vaccine could ‘end pandemic’

Editor February 25, 2021

Study proves vacccine is 94 per cent effective. The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine has proven 94 per cent effective in a study involving 1.2 million people in Israel, the first peer-reviewed real world research confirming the power of mass immunization campaigns to bring the pandemic to a close. The paper, which was published in the New England […]