Tablets believed to be lacre with fentanyl will be displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration Northeast Regional Laboratory on October 8, 2019 in New York.Photo: Don Emmert (Getty Images) Preliminary research from this week found that patients taking opioids for chronic pain may produce antibodies to the medication, which may …
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PHILO PHOTO: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blows as he arrives to hold a news conference at the presidential hangar, with the presidency in the background, at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, Mexico July 27, 2020. REUTERS / Henry Romero / File photo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – …
Read More »Britain encourages risk groups to sign up for COVID-19 vaccine studies
PHILO PHOTO: A worker takes a blood sample from a man during a clinical trial of coronavirus antibodies (COVID-19), at Keele University, in Keele, UK 30 June 2020. REUTERS / Carl Recine LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Monday urged parents and volunteers of Black and Asian minority groups to sign …
Read More »China loses first COVID-19 vaccine patent to CanSino: state media
FILE PHOTO: Chinese fax manufacturer CanSino Biologics’ sign is pictured at its building in Tianjin, China November 20, 2018. Image taken November 20, 2018. REUTERS / Stringer BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese vaccine specialist CanSino Biologics Inc has won a patent judgment from Beijing for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate Ad5-nCOV, state …
Read More »Confidence, fear and solidarity will determine the success of a COVID vaccine
By Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News Thousands of letters full of money flooded Jonas Salk’s mailbox the week after his 1955 polio vaccine was declared safe and effective. Everyone wanted his vaccine. Desperate parents have shut down doctors’ phone lines in search of the precious elixir; medicine companies and doctors …
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