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The World Health Organisation (WHO), yesterday, raised fresh safety concerns about Janssen and AstraZeneca vaccines. x A statement, by its Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) COVID-19 subcommittee on reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) following adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccines, warned that vaccination with the Janssen and AstraZeneca jabs could cause rare immune system disorder that results in muscle weakness, pain, numbness and par...

Yasmeen Abutaleb, Tyler Pager, Laurie McGinley and Lena H. Sun11:52, Jul 11 2021 Pfizer is expected to brief top US government health officials in the coming days about the need for a coronavirus vaccine booster shot after an unusually public spat between the pharmaceutical giant and federal officials over whether a third shot will be necessary, according to the company and six people familiar with the plans. Pfizer and the German firm BioNTech announced last week that they planned to seek reg...

SINGAPORE - Singapore’s expert committee on Covid-19 vaccination and a senior infectious diseases specialist from the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) have come out to counter claims by a group of doctors behind an open letter arguing for a halt in the vaccination of young people here. In a revised statement issued on Monday (June 28), the Ministry of Health (MOH), which oversees the Expert Committee on Covid-19 Vaccination, said that news reports about a childs death in the U...

Health regulators in several countries have been investigating cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after a shot of Pfizer or Moderna. — Reuters/File WASHINGTON: The US drug regulator on Friday added a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer Inc /BioNTech and Mod­erna Covid vaccine shots to indicate the rare risk of heart inflammation after its use. For each vaccine, the fact sheets for healthcare providers have been revised to inc­lude a warning that reports of adverse events s...

WASHINGTON, June 26 ― The US drug regulator yesterday added a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer Inc /BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccine shots to indicate the rare risk of heart inflammation after its use. For each vaccine, the fact sheets for healthcare providers have been revised...

WASHINGTON - The US drug regulator on Friday (June 25) added a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer Inc-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccine shots to indicate the rare risk of heart inflammation after its use. For each vaccine, the fact sheets for healthcare providers have been revised to include a warning that reports of adverse events suggest increased risks...

The median age of patients who experienced the inflammation after a second vaccine dose was 24.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine 100 per cent effective in 12-17 age group Representative Image WASHINGTON [US]: Moderna on Tuesday announced that various studies have shown its COVID-19 vaccine was 100 per cent effective at preventing infection in adolescents aged 12 to 17 and it planned on submitting the findings to global regulators in days. “We are encouraged that mRNA-1273 was highly effective at preventing COVID-19 in adolescents. It is particularly exciting to see that the Moderna COV...