Medications for high blood pressure reduce the risk of becoming seriously ill or dying from Covid-19 by one-third, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of East Anglia study 28,000 patients taking antihypertensives, a class of drugs used to treat high blood pressure. They found that the risk of serious …
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PHILO PHOTO: A boy wearing a protective face mask plays in a fountain after local authorities imposed lockdown restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, in Moscow, Russia June 12, 2020. REUTERS / Evgenia Novozhenina ZURICH (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) says children aged 12 and …
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PHILO PHOTO: A boy wearing a protective face mask plays in a fountain after local authorities imposed lockdown restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, in Moscow, Russia June 12, 2020. REUTERS / Evgenia Novozhenina ZURICH (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) says children aged 12 and …
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Text size Data from BioNTech and Pfizer were particularly promising. Jeenah Moon / Getty Images After a hiatus from a late summer break, the news of a Covid-19 vaccine is heating up again as a handful of leading programs are rapidly moving to a decisive phase. Reports from several companies …
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PHILO PHOTO: A woman holding a small bottle labeled “Vaccine COVID-19” and a medical syringe in this illustration April 10, 2020. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / Illustration BEIJING (Reuters) – China has approved human tests for a potential coronavirus vaccine that is cultured inside insect cells, local government in the …
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