medicine

An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Atlas: A new COVID-19 vaccine, developed by researchers from the Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, is being offered patent-free to vaccine manufacturers across the world. Human trials…

NPR reports: In late November, more than 110 people gathered at a crowded Christmas party at a restaurant in Oslo. Most of the guests were fully vaccinated. One had returned from South Africa just a few days earlier and was unknowingly carrying the omi…

A spate of new studies on lab animals and human tissues are providing the first indication of why the Omicron variant causes milder disease than previous versions of the coronavirus. From a report: In studies on mice and hamsters, Omicron produced less…

The seven-day average of COVID-19 cases topped 280,000 this week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University’s tracker. It’s a record number of new cases in the country; the last time the number of cases hit a peak close to that was January. NPR r…

国内でもイギリスの製薬会社が、経口中絶薬の承認申請が行われたことが報じられているが、一方で強い副作用があることが指摘されている。タレコミではピルの普及こそが生理の貧困問題を防ぐ手段であると指摘している（NHK、その2）。

pongchang 曰く、 経口妊娠中絶薬に関する注意喚起について
アフターピルより事前に呑もう
ピルの製造者・販売者のバイエル
生理の貧困といってナプキンを便所に置くより、ピルの無料化が必要
生理痛の回数が多すぎる。PMS（生理や排卵に伴うイライラなど）に振り回される日…

U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine. The Associated Press reports: Centers for Disease Control …