BERLIN (Reuters) – Pfizer said on Thursday it had submitted an application to Swissmedic for authorisation of a further bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. The ready-to-use dispersion for injection contained both messenger RNA (mRNA) from the original Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and mRNA…

Muscular strength and its improvement are important to everyone for their regular day-to-day life activities. Conventionally, muscle function can be assessed by means of physical performance tests and/or muscle strength measurements. However, these methods are not applicable to those who…

Comprehensive evaluation, multidisciplinary care, individualized treatment, and ongoing follow-up are all key to the management of pediatric thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC), according to the first European guidelines for this rare disease. The guidelines were recently published in…

The possibility of a mouth wash or nasal spray to prevent or reduce the spread of COVID-19 infections and its variants is being investigated by scientists at QUT, Griffith University and Xiamen University in China. The concept is based on…

NHS oncology nurse, 26, is diagnosed with cancer after GP wrongly dismissed lump in her breast as ‘probably nothing’ Sophie Jackson discovered the lump on her right breast in September last year She was told the lump was likely caused…

EXCLUSIVE: Jab got your tongue? Pfizer Covid vaccine caused ‘debilitating’ lesions that left 60-year-old woman unable to eat for months Painful sores worsened after each dose she received and left her unable to eat Doctors struggled to find culprit for…

The UK COVID-19 Inquiry, an independent inquiry set up to examine the country’s response to and the impact of the COVID pandemic, has officially begun. Along with issues including pandemic preparedness and the health care system, one part of the…

Hypertension, a sustained blood pressure greater than 140/90 mm Hg, is among the leading causes of heart disease, disability, and premature mortality globally. The level to which blood pressure should be lowered to ameliorate this risk, however, has been debated,…

A young man is paralyzed from polio in New York. Yet all around him many others are carrying the polio virus in their gut but have no symptoms. What makes them different? The famous Typhoid Mary was asymptomatic, although she…

Over a decade after the role of pyramidal neurons in mental representations of space and location was discovered, a group of Brazilian and American researchers has made an important contribution to scientists’ understanding of the brain’s navigation system by identifying…