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Elderly and vulnerable to be offered spring Covid booster jab

People aged 75 and over will be offered a vaccination, along with care home residents and anyone aged five and over who is immunosuppressed.

The Independent UK

Vitiligo: Ruxolitinib cream could be made available in the UK

Ruxolitinib has been called a miracle cream - but it can also carry severe side-effects

Wales Online

Controversial skin cream used to treat vitiligo may come to UK

The treatment carries potentially serious side effects

The Independent UK

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What are these ‘cancer vaccines’ making news? Are there similarities with COVID vaccines?

Using the same mRNA technology as COVID vaccines, cancer vaccines are an emerging personalised treatment for cancer.

The New Daily

GB News' Mark Steyn programme breached broadcasting rules 'misleading' public over Covid-19

Ofcom said the claims were "materially misleading" because of the way the data was presented to viewers

Nottingham Post

GB News broke Ofcom rules with presenter’s Covid vaccine claims

Regulator says Mark Steyn’s use of data to draw misleading conclusions breached content guidelines

The Guardian - UK

Government not advised to ban second most used drug among 16-24 year olds

Ministers were reported to be planning to ban the sale and possession as part of a bid to tackle antisocial behaviour

Wales Online

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Report stops short of recommending laughing gas ban

The independent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) was asked by the Home Office in 2021 to review the harms of nitrous oxide.

The Independent UK

The big idea: should governments run more experiments?

We’re used to randomised trials in medicine. Why not apply the same rigour to policy?

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: California gave up on mandating COVID vaccines for schoolchildren. Here’s why that’s wise

A California Supreme Court decision last month reaffirmed that individual school districts lack the authority to require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. A few weeks before that, officials in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration confirmed that they had abandoned plans to require COVID-19 vaccination of schoolchildren, and legislation to similar…

Los Angeles Times

Make vapes a pharmacy-only drug, say New Zealand health groups

Smoking rates have plummeted but vaping is soaring among younger people, sparking calls to restrict access

The Guardian - AU

Matt Hancock was ‘like a headless chicken’, says former vaccines chief

Dr Clive Dix hit out at the former health secretary in a Telegraph article.

The Independent UK

Thailand spent B444bn in 3 years to fight pandemic

Thailand spent a total of 444 billion baht ($12.8 billion) on public health during the three years of the pandemic to contain the spread of Covid-19 and vaccinate its population, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

Bangkok Post

California to alter COVID rules in health care settings: Masks and vaccinations not required

LOS ANGELES — With the COVID-19 state of emergency a thing of the past, California health officials on Friday unveiled plans to relax guidance on masking in high-risk settings and to end vaccination requirements for health care workers.

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The Times of India

"Avoid antibiotics": Know why IMA issued advisory amid rising cases of fever

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Friday released an advisory urging people to avoid taking antibiotics like Azithromycin and Amoxiclav. The advisory signed by Dr Sharad Kumar Agarwal, National President, IMA, and other members has said that taking antibiotics when there is no requirement of it, leads to antibiotic resistance.

Asharq Al-Awsat

WHO Still Working to Identify the Origins of COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) is still working to identify the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, its director general said on Friday, after a US agency was reported to have assessed the pandemic had likely been caused by a Chinese laboratory leak. "I have written to and spoken with high-level…

The Independent UK

Latest rise in UK Covid-19 infections may be slowing

The Omicron variant BA.2.75 now accounts for more than three quarters of infections.

Salon

FBI director believes lab leak theory

The director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, fanned the flames of speculation that blame the Chinese government

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Wales Online

Gran allowed drug dealer boyfriend to store cocaine in the fridge

Rachel Williams, 38, allowed her house in Maesteg, Bridgend, to be used to store cocaine and amphetamine by her partner Gareth Boast, 43.

ABC News

How an Adelaide anti-vaccination protest became a Russian propaganda opportunity

Anti-vaccination protesters say an event held in Adelaide was "hijacked" by pro-Russia demonstrators and misrepresented by Russian news websites — turning a "day of remembrance" for people they say have been injured by COVID-19 vaccines into "a rally in support of Russia".

Bangkok Post

Push to overcome vaccine delays

Authorities are working to speed up the rollout of childhood immunisation programmes that have been delayed by Covid-19 for three years.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: How an ideologically blinded media failed to take the COVID lab leak theory seriously

Citing a classified intelligence report provided to members of Congress, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the Energy Department has now concluded with “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely began after an unintentional laboratory leak in China.

Tribune News Service

An at-home COVID-19 and flu test gets FDA emergency use authorization

The Food and Drug Administration has approved an at-home test that can detect and discern between COVID-19 infection and two strains of the flu, Influenza A and B, continuing the shift from clinical to home-diagnostic care that blossomed during the height of the pandemic.

Wales Online

Final moments of first UK child to die of Covid described at inquest

A consultant says it was 'like a wartime experience' but Ismail suffered no pain or fear

The New Daily

Victoria tips $10m into mRNA vaccine workforce training

Victoria is pouring $10 million into training Australia's vaccine workforce, ahead of the southern hemisphere's first mRNA production site opening in 2024.

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