France on Thursday extended the anti-COVID curfew in place in nine cities to large parts of the country, taking to 46 million the number of people forced to stay indoors at night. Paris and eight other French cities were placed…
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Curfew begins for 20 million French people
Some 20 million French people are preparing to spend their first evening under curfew on Saturday, a measure taken by the government after an alarming surge in new coronavirus cases. The 9:00 pm to 6:00 am curfew came into force…
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Global coronavirus death toll tops 1.1 million
The total number of declared deaths from the new coronavirus has topped 1.1 million around the world, according to an AFP tally from official sources at 1500 GMT Friday. At least 1,100,056 fatalities, out of 38,997,267 cases, have been reported….
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Global Death Toll From COVID-19 Passes 1 Million
TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 — The global COVID-19 pandemic reached a grim new milestone on Tuesday: 1 million dead. Americans made up more than 200,000 of those deaths, or one in every five, according to a running tally comprised by…
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Company Pays $60 Million to Settle Pelvic Mesh Case
MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 — A company has agreed to pay $60 million to settle charges by U.S. state attorneys general that it failed to adequately inform women of dangerous side effects associated with permanent pelvic mesh devices. The payment…
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India eases virus restrictions as cases near 3.7 million
Many Indian states eased lockdown restrictions on Tuesday, allowing more businesses and public areas to reopen to reduce economic pain caused by the coronavirus, even as the country’s new daily infections remain the highest in the world and its confirmed…
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Emergency COVID-19 measures prevented more than 500 million infections, study finds
Emergency health measures implemented in six major countries have “significantly and substantially slowed” the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to research from a UC Berkeley team published today in the journal Nature. The findings come as leaders worldwide struggle…
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More than 300 million cases of hip and knee osteoarthritis worldwide in 2017
There were more than 300 million cases of hip and knee osteoarthritis worldwide in 2017—predominantly in high income countries—with the figures set to rise further, reveals an analysis of international modelling data, published online in the journal Annals of the…
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