Seprember 2020 GlobalTimes; Chinese vaccine producers are accelerating clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccine candidates and preparing for full-speed production once a product is approved to enter the market.  A phase III clinical trial project on a COVID-19 vaccine jointly developed by Chinese company CanSino Biologics Inc (CanSinoBIO) and military infectious …

September 2020 DailyNation; At least 400 adult volunteers will be recruited to participate in the human trials of the Oxford vaccine Covid-19 vaccine in Kenya. This is after the government gave its approval for the coronavirus vaccine known as ChAdOx1 nCOV-19 to be trialed in the country. The approval was …

September 2020 Dailynation ; The Cancer Prevention and Control (Amendment) Bill, 2019, yesterday received overwhelming support from Members of Parliament during the debate in the morning session. Sponsored by Homa Bay Woman Representative Gladys Wanga, the bill seeks to amend Cancer Prevention and Control Act 2012 to include cancer treatment …

Fate and fortune have a mystic way of placing people in paths they never anticipated. Paths that either overrun or streamline their life. This could not be truer for Dr Loice Ombajo, the head of the Infectious Diseases Unit at Kenyatta National Hospital. Never in the 15 years of her …

Trials of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will resume after being paused due to a reported side effect in a patient in the UK. On Tuesday, AstraZeneca said the studies were being paused while it investigated whether the adverse reaction was linked with the vaccine. But on …

September 2020 BBC; France has reported a record daily increase in coronavirus cases as the country struggles to contain a fresh surge in infections.On Saturday health authorities said there were 10,561 new cases, rising by more than 1,000 from Friday’s figures. The numbers of people admitted to hospital and intensive …

September 2020 theStar; A firm that got over Sh1 billion contracts for Covid-19 medical supplies is at the centre of the Sh63 billion medical kits scandal that senators say was conceived like a criminal enterprise. A damming report by the Senate says Megascope Healthcare Ltd — a firm associated with Richard Ngatia — was …

AstraZeneca has paused all clinical trials of the Covid-19 vaccine it is developing with Oxford university after a participant in the UK section of the study suffered a suspected serious adverse reaction. The UK-based drugmaker voluntarily put the trial on hold after the discovery of the sick participant, who fell …

September 2020 Dailynation ; Governors Tuesday resolved to procure medical supplies from other sources other than the government drug supplies agency, which they said was now unable to cater for their needs. The resolution, following an extraordinary Council of Governors meeting, comes after a sustained push to quash the monopoly …

September 2020 MobileHealthNews; French digital firm Withings today announced that its latest wearable is available in Europe, after receiving the CE marking for medical devices. Developed by cardiologists and sleep experts, Withings says that ScanWatch is the world’s first clinically validated hybrid smartwatch to detect both atrial fibrillation (AFib) and …