By AMANDA SEITZ, MATTHEW PERRONE and JONEL ALECCIA WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmentalist, for years gained a loyal and fierce following with his biting condemnations of how the nation’s public health agencies do business. And that’s put him on a direct collision course with some of the 80,000 … Read more
The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccines official says he hopes to find common ground with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was picked Thursday by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Health and Human Services. “What I would ask of him is that he keep an open mind. We’re happy to try to … Read more
He came under fire after the hearing especially for his comments about women, including his suggestion that he was “an ally of women” because he lives with his wife and has three daughters. Renew MEP Stine Bosse said she was “wholly unconvinced” that Várhelyi is the “right guardian of women’s rights,” while some MEPs suggested … Read more
Geneva — The World Health Organization on Tuesday listed 17 pathogens that cause widespread disease and death, including HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, for which it said new vaccines were “urgently needed.” The U.N. health agency said that it with its list was providing the first global effort to systematically prioritize endemic pathogens based on criteria … Read more
Supreme Court New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea alleging side-effects such as blood clotting due to the administration of COVID-19 vaccines. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said the PIL was filed just to create a sensation. “File a class action … Read more
Shortly after his re-election last year, Prime Minister Robert Fico backed the initiative by the far-right Slovak National Party (SNS), one of the coalition members, to create a commission investigating pandemic measures. “The Slovak public simply needs an answer about the vaccination … why people were vaccinated with various experimental vaccines without any tests, why … Read more
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson considered sending troops to the Netherlands to seize a supply of five million doses of Covid vaccines held in Leiden, according to an excerpt of his forthcoming memoirs published in the Daily Mail. In the spring of 2021, the EU and U.K. were wrestling over the production of Covid-19 … Read more
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — On his first day of school at Newcomer Academy, Maikel Tejeda was whisked to the school library. The 7th grader didn’t know why. He soon got the point: He was being given make-up vaccinations. Five of them. “I don’t have a problem with that,” said the 12-year-old, who moved from Cuba early … Read more
Dozens of Canadian business associations across the country have signed a letter urging the Liberal government to prevent Air Canada pilots from striking by sending the labour dispute to binding arbitration. The letter — which was signed by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Retail Council of Canada, Food Producers of Canada and the Canadian Toy … Read more
Another key target is promoting innovation and access. The pipeline of novel antibiotics is severely limited and existing therapies are difficult to access, especially in lower- and middle- income countries — which are already bearing a heavier burden of antimicrobial resistant infections. Anand Anandkumar, co-founder and CEO of Indian pharmaceutical company Bugworks, said he believes the … Read more
