Dr Zuhoor Dadaker is a GP in Eerste River, Cape Town.He estimates that he has seen about 100 confirmed Covid-19 cases since the pandemic broke out.While video- and teleconsultations were encouraged to avoid the risk of infection, Dadaker said this simply wasn't feasible for the people he services.It's 03:00 and Zuhoor Dadaker's buzzing cellphone wakes…
Monkeys given six prototype coronavirus vaccines were protected from infection in Harvard study that offers hope a jab to protect humans could be on the horizonIn one study, nine monkeys that were infected with coronavirus did not contract the disease after they recoveredIn another study, 25 monkeys were given six prototype vaccines while 10 received…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
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