Small period changes after Covid jab seen to be short-lived: UK expertVictoria Male, from Imperial College London, called studies from the US and Norway which tracked women's cycles "reassuring" and she blamed...
31 Jan, 2022, 07.46 AM IST
Denmark and Norway back booster dose for vulnerableThe government estimates the patient groups amount to up to 200,000 people, including patients with immune deficiency diseases, organ trans...
30 Aug, 2021, 11.43 PM IST
Norway offers third COVID vaccine dose to people with weak immunitiesThe government estimates the patient groups amount to up to 200,000 people, including patients with immune deficiency diseases, organ trans...
30 Aug, 2021, 08.26 PM IST
Second wave of COVID-19 not over yet, cannot lower guard: GovernmentSeventy-one districts reported Covid case positivity rate of more than 10 per cent in the week from June 23 to 29, the government said, add...
02 Jul, 2021, 05.33 PM IST
Norway should exclude J&J, AstraZeneca from COVID vaccine scheme, says commissionOn April 15, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said the AstraZeneca vaccine should be dropped entirely but the government sought fur...
10 May, 2021, 05.19 PM IST
New study finds slightly increased rates of vein blood clots after AstraZaneca Covid vaccine; stresses risk of adverse events lowThe findings are based on 280,000 people aged 18-65 who received a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
07 May, 2021, 05.35 PM IST
Norway lends AstraZeneca vaccine jabs to Sweden, IcelandNorway will lend all of its 216,000 doses of AstraZeneca to neighbouring Sweden and Iceland as long as its own government regulator has pau...
22 Apr, 2021, 06.43 PM IST
J&J begins COVID-19 vaccine supplies to EU, 50 million doses expected in Q2: EU lawmaker"The first doses are leaving warehouses for member states today," a European Commission spokesman told a news conference on Monday.
12 Apr, 2021, 05.08 PM IST
Norway keeps AstraZeneca vaccine on hold for another 3 weeksNorway is one of over a dozen European countries to have suspended the rollout of the vaccine over safety concerns, although most nations h...
26 Mar, 2021, 05.49 PM IST
India says it has no concern about AstraZeneca vaccine side effectsThe safety committee was also looking at "serious thromboembolic events" from the UK. Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday joined Spain, Germany, F...
17 Mar, 2021, 07.28 PM IST
Italy prosecutors seize batch of AstraZeneca vaccine after death of manOn Sunday Piedmont's regional government suspended use of the batch after Sandro Tognatti, a 57-year-old music teacher, fell ill and died i...
15 Mar, 2021, 07.31 PM IST
Ireland suspends Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccineThree health workers in Norway who had recently received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were being treated in hospital for bleeding, bloo...
14 Mar, 2021, 07.43 PM IST
EU regulator approves Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccineThe decision offers a boost for the EU's sluggish vaccination programme even if reports say the first shipments of J&J doses may not arrive...
11 Mar, 2021, 08.31 PM IST
WTO boss seeks boost for COVID-19 vaccine production, gets backingNgozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian finance minister who was until recently chair of the board of global vaccine alliance GAVI, took on ...
10 Mar, 2021, 10.15 AM IST
Norway probes 23 elderly patients' death after Pfizer vaccinationDoctors in Norway have been asked to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in line to receive the Pfizer-BioNTec...
16 Jan, 2021, 04.10 PM IST
New kind of loans and bonds could fill $28 billion COVID funding gap: WHOBruce Aylward, a senior WHO adviser and its ACT coordinator, said that new financing mechanisms - including concessional loans and catastro...
15 Dec, 2020, 05.44 PM IST
US begins first human trial of coronavirus vaccine: OfficialsThe vaccine is called mRNA-1273 and was developed by the NIAID scientists and their collaborators at the biotechnology company Moderna, Inc...
17 Mar, 2020, 09.36 AM IST