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FDA moves to ease blood donor restrictions on gay men amid national shortage

The FDA is considering easing blood donor screening restrictions for gay and bisexual men.

Axios

Chris Whitty warns UK faces 'prolonged period' of excess deaths due to lockdown effects

Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance have published a report of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, saying if they did not act the way they did "the outcomes would have been significantly worse"

Daily Mirror

World AIDS Day:Anti-viral therapy is available to 70% of people living with HIV, AIDS

More than 40 years after its onset, AIDS remains a major public health issue. Sharon Lewin, President of the International AIDS Society (IAS), explains that while there is still no vaccine or cure, effective antiretroviral treatments exist. The challenge now is to make them available to everyone.

Radio France Internationale

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Parents refuse to accept blood from anyone with Covid jab for baby's life-saving surgery

New Zealand's national health body Te Whatu Ora has applied for guardianship of a four-month-old boy because his parents have refused to give consent for him to take donated blood for his urgent heart surgery

Daily Mirror

Editorial: What to do now that seniors account for 9 in 10 Florida COVID deaths

Think back to the long-ago days of March 2020, when Florida was feeling the first effects of the COVID pandemic. There was so much we didn’t know, and so much we would later vehemently disagree on, but at that moment, there was no dissent from one basic point: We must…

Tribune News Service

CMO has two words of warning for Irish public amid Covid, RSV and flu case rise

The current hike in cases of the respiratory virus RSV is 'substantially bigger' than any previous wave we have seen in Ireland

Irish Mirror

Indonesian families sue drug regulator, govt after children die of kidney disease

More than a dozen parents are suing Indonesia's drug regulator and health ministry for allowing into the country medications linked to acute kidney injury that killed their children or damaged their organs, their lawyer told Reuters on Friday.

Reuters

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A Swiss-style Brexit deal is unlikely unless things change dramatically within the Conservative Party

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has denied reports that the UK is reconsidering its relationship with the EU. The “Swiss-style deal” rumoured to be favoured by some in the government would result in a softer form of Brexit, six years after the referendum.

The Conversation

Relief and worry as major Chinese cities ease COVID curbs

Further easing of COVID-19 testing requirements and quarantine rules in some Chinese cities was met with a mix of relief and worry on Friday, as hundreds of millions await an expected shift in national virus policies after widespread social unrest.

Reuters

Investment giant fined for greenwashing

Vanguard Australia has been fined for describing investments in cigarette and tobacco sales in potentially misleading ways.

AAP

Elton John marks World Aids Day with charity message ‘no one left behind’

The British musician shared details of a new project in partnership with supermarket chain Walmart to help fight the virus in the US.

The Independent UK

To combat opioid overdoses, Gov. Greg Abbott says he supports decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips

The announcement signals a shift in Abbott’s approach to fighting the opioid epidemic. He had previously pushed back against bills calling for the decriminalization of fentanyl testing strips.

The Texas Tribune

Welsh primary school pupil dies after contracting invasive Strep A

Public Health Wales say severe symptoms extremely rare and it is unlikely other pupils will be affected

The Guardian - UK

Proposal would allow state-licensed drug injection sites in Illinois to fight an opioid crisis that has hit Cook County hard

“The war on drugs, where we told people to just say no, failed us,” says state Rep. LaShawn Ford. “We know that people are going to use, and we have to support them.”

Chicago Sun-Times

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Tribune News Service

Lawsuit blames Fauci and federal agencies for Kansas City musician’s COVID-19 death

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The widow of a popular Kansas City-area musician has filed a lawsuit accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health of indirectly causing her husband’s death from COVID-19 by funding coronavirus experimentation at a lab in China.

ABC News

Seizures, deaths, depopulation: CheckMate looks into claims made in new anti-vax film Died Suddenly

A new conspiracy-laden film that baselessly alleges COVID-19 vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths has been viewed more than 10 million times in 10 days.

Axios

Exclusive: HHS partners with U.S. men's soccer team to promote updated COVID vaccines

HHS is partnering with USMNT to increase uptake of the updated coronavirus vaccine.

StockNews.com

Is It Too Late to Get in on the Upward Move in This Medical Stock?

Despite economic uncertainties, leading pharma company Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) beat street estimates in the fiscal third quarter with solid financials. However, given the current market turmoil, is it too late to get on the upward move in this stock? Continue reading to find out.

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Reason

As the Monkeypox Spread Recedes, There Are Lessons To Learn

In times of public health crises, government red tape and misguided communication make matters worse.

The Conversation

Fifty years ago, the new Whitlam government removed the luxury sales tax on the pill. It changed Australian women's lives

Amid the scale and sweep of the list of decisions made by the Whitlam government in their first week in office, most people remember the big changes: freeing all draft resisters from prison, or official recognition of Communist China.

The Independent UK

Flu levels continue to rise while vaccine take-up is low among key groups

Infection rates are estimated to be highest among five to 14-year-olds.

The Independent UK

‘It’s a crisis’: Tech executive’s 10-month-old accidentally overdoses on fentanyl at California playground

First responders used Narcan to save child, father says

Daily Mirror

Anti-vaxxer nurse who jabbed 9,000 with saline instead of Covid vaccine spared jail

Red Cross nurse Antje T. jabbed up to 8,600 elderly patients with what she told them was the life-saving Pfizer vaccine at the Schortens jab centre in Friesland, Germany

The Independent UK

Fall in Covid-19 patients in England looks to have stopped

Admission rates are also showing signs of an increase.

Radio France Internationale

Fed up French doctors and lab workers stage historic nationwide strike

For the first time since 2015, unions representing doctors and lab workers in the private sector are calling for a two-day strike from Thursday to put pressure on the government as lawmakers debate the social security budget.

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