March 2021 Businessdaily ;Kenya has opened talks with a global partnership under the World Health Organisation for local top private hospitals to buy the Covid-19 vaccines for wealthy Kenyans.  A senior official at the Ministry of Health told Business Daily that the State and Covax are in discussion to allow …

March 2021 BusinessDaily; British American Tobacco (BAT) has lamented plans by Kenya’s Health ministry to classify its nicotine pouches as tobacco products regulated under the tobacco control law. The Health ministry in early February ruled the sale and distribution of BAT nicotine pouches, trading under Lyft brand, be done under …

March 2021 YahooNews; The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has concluded that the Oxford-AstraZeneca (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine is “safe and effective” for use. The review from the medicines regulator comes after a string of European countries suspended their rollouts of the vaccine after fears it caused blood clotting. The EMA said …

March 2021 lshtm; The rate of infection with COVID-19 vaccine for people that live with healthcare workers is at least 30% lower when the worker has been vaccinated mostly with a single dose, according to preliminary new research. Not yet peer reviewed, the study involved all healthcare workers employed by the …

March 2021 lshtm; The B.1.1.7 variant is very likely to cause more severe illness than pre-existing SARS-CoV-2 variants, according to new research published in Nature. The research team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine analysed the results of more than two million COVID-19 community tests in England between …

March 2021 CNN; The Netherlands on Sunday became the latest European nation to suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations over blood clot concerns despite advice from the European Union’s medicines regulator that the benefits of the shot outweigh any potential risks. Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Bulgaria and Ireland have also halted the vaccinations. Dutch …

March 2021 Businessdaily;Individuals found selling or dispensing medicine without a written prescription from a registered health practitioner face three years in jail or fine of up to Sh30,000 if MPs approve changes to the law. The Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment) Bill, 2021 currently before the House aims at safeguarding the …

March 2021 YahooNews; A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of COVID-19. Three researchers working in gene-based vaccines, wearable diagnostics and drug discovery explain how their work rose to the challenge of the pandemic, and their hopes that …

March 2021 YahooNews; In just two months, the United States could be swimming in COVID-19 vaccine. Literally swimming. The 500 million 0.5 or 0.3-milliliter doses expected to be shipped by then are enough to fill a 55,000-gallon swimming pool. As hard as it is to imagine now as people frantically …

March 2021 TheConversation; Artificial intelligence holds great promise for improving human health by helping doctors make accurate diagnoses and treatment decisions. It can also lead to discrimination that can harm minorities, women and economically disadvantaged people. The question is, when health care algorithms discriminate, what recourse do people have? A …