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MEDICINE

Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 14, 2021
Vaccine blood-clot side effect puts focus on immune reaction
Health officials are exploring whether and how an immune reaction may occur in people who have received vaccines made by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 13, 2021
U.S. calls for pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccine after clotting cases
The concerns about the shot mirror those about AstraZeneca's, which European regulators began investigating last month after some recipients developed blood clots.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2021
COVID-19 widens the cracks in a fragmented, contested world
Insight, however, no matter how good, is wasted when policymakers aren't paying attention — a lesson that the Global Trends report makes painfully clear.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 12, 2021
Asian nations scale back AstraZeneca rollout amid safety woes
The moves may delay protection for the region amid concerns that the shot could trigger a rare and potentially deadly blood clotting condition.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 12, 2021
China considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines to boost protection rate
The move comes after Beijing's top disease official said the country's available vaccines 'don't have very high rates of protection.'
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 11, 2021
Astra vaccine unmasks EU split between West and desperate East
The former Eastern Bloc is home to almost a quarter of the EU's 440 million population and is struggling to tame the pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 11, 2021
South African variant can 'break through' Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says
The study suggests the vaccine is less effective against the South African variant, compared with the original coronavirus and a variant first identified in Britain.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 10, 2021
Japanese drug regulator to fast-track any modified vaccines to fight variants
Vaccines targeting new variants of the coronavirus won't require domestic clinical trials if the production process and handling of the shots are similar to those of the original.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2021
COVID-19 isn’t over, and the next wave may be worse
While we're increasingly talking about the coronavirus in the past tense, the worst may still be ahead of us. Infections worldwide rose 47% during March from a lull in late February.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2021
A fairer world requires fairer tech. Here’s why.
In the decade ahead, a wave of technological solutions will touch and transform every part of our lives. These new solutions could either tackle existing problems — or exacerbate them while creating others. As tech can scale both progress or harm, the time is now to shape the fair and responsible future...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 5, 2021
What’s better in a pandemic: federalism or a central state?
How, in a pandemic, do you balance regional autonomy and flexible local responses with national coordination and coherence?
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 3, 2021
U.K. regulator found 30 cases of blood clot events after AstraZeneca vaccine use
The total number of cases are 25 more than the agency previously reported.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Apr 1, 2021
In mutant variants, has the coronavirus already revealed its hand?
Emergence of the same few mutations simultaneously in different parts of the world gives scientists cautious optimism that there may be limits on the pandemic's endurance.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 28, 2021
Japan to issue digital vaccine passport, Nikkei reports
Japan is set to issue digital health certificates to citizens who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, joining China, the EU and other countries that have adopted similar measures aimed at opening up overseas travel, the Nikkei reported on Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2021
When vaccination is a 'crime'
It is not difficult to think of something better than throwing away potentially life-saving vaccines.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 24, 2021
Manslaughter probes in Italy worsen AstraZeneca vaccine troubles
Two doctors and a nurse in Sicily were placed under investigation following the sudden death of a navy officer hours after he received the shot.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 24, 2021
AstraZeneca’s pain grows as U.S. questions beleaguered COVID-19 vaccine
U.S. trial data showing the firm's shot to be highly effective was a welcome reprieve this week, but the good news lasted less than a day.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2021
AstraZeneca may have given outdated vaccine data, U.S. agency says
AstraZeneca PLC may have released outdated information about its COVID-19 vaccine trial, giving an "incomplete” view of the efficacy of the shot, said the leading U.S. agency on infectious disease.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2021
Vaccine techno-populism is how Europe loses
Even with four vaccines approved by EU regulators, governments are fumbling the logistics of getting needles in arms.

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