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The French unit of German pharmaceuticals firm Merck has been charged with willful commercial deception for failing to inform patients of changes to a thyroid treatment that could result in serious side-effects.

An infectious disease expert has said XBB is one of a 'slew' of fast-spreading variants.

Some rather alarming headlines recently circulated about the newest members of the omicron family. “Nightmare COVID variant,” read one. “The most immune-evasive COVID variants yet.” Or, as one would-be pandemic influencer said in a tweet shared thousands of times: “MOTHER OF GOD… #COVID variants worse than CDC has been admitting.”

JAKARTA: Indonesia has halted sales of medicinal syrup after 99 children died of acute kidney injuries this year.

The researchers spliced elements of one of the newest strains onto a sample of one of the first types of Covid detected

Laura Higginson died two weeks after the overdose - but the Crown Prosecution Service found it did not contribute to her death

A coronial inquest has heard 13 per cent of almost 20,000 high-schoolers had tried chroming — but the full extent of the "incredibly difficult issue" is still not known.

The variant formally known as XBB has been detected in more than 17 countries so far

World Health Organization welcomes country’s ‘crucial step’ in backing use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA)

Cases have been slowing down across the country, except in Leeds

China's capital, Beijing, has dialled up measures to stop COVID, strengthening public checks and locking down some residential compounds after a quadrupling of its case load in recent weeks, just as a key Communist Party congress entered full swing.