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Simmering discontent with stringent COVID policies three years into the pandemic have ignited into broader protests.

Imagine your doctor tells you that you have a serious wasting condition. Your physician prescribes a powerful kind of therapy that has serious side effects similar to chemotherapy’s. You ask what evidence there is of the therapy’s benefits. Your physician cheerfully says there’s none. She is prescribing the therapy because…

Beijing (AFP) - China said Tuesday it would speed up a push to vaccinate people aged 60 and older against Covid-19 after the country posted record daily case numbers in recent days.

Public complaints about China's COVID-19 curbs stem from overzealous implementation, particularly when applied with a one-size-fits-all approach, rather than from the measures themselves, a senior health official said on Tuesday.

The widespread immunisation campaign comes after four cases of polio were found in the country less than a decade after the World Health Organization declared it free of the deadly virus.

Australia's largest state will withdraw or refund tens of thousands of fines issued during the COVID pandemic after government lawyers conceded on Tuesday that some fines were invalid in a test case brought by a legal advocacy group.

Alkaloids of Australia's conduct in fixing the price of a drug used in over-the-counter motion sickness has been described as deliberate and covert.

Sue used to run a business cleaning other people's homes. Now, she can barely clean her own and worries "nobody is listening" to long COVID sufferers like her.

A trial will use lessons from the pandemic to help quickly find treatments for severe flu, as experts predict there could be record numbers of cases this year.

Researchers say despite the lack of symptom relief, more trials are needed to focus on the targeted use of medicinal cannabis

While many people get flu and recover without hospital treatment, for some people it can be more severe, and even life-threatening.