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Health UgandaThis Country Vaccinated Eight Million Children… in Three Days!
Through its polio vaccination campaign, Uganda vaccinated some 8 million children below the age of five in only three days, a much-needed exercise for the East African country to continue to keep children alive and in good health.
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Health USAScientists Find Solutions to Diagnose Rare Diseases Fast
Scientists from Stanford University in California, United States managed to sequence human DNA in record-breaking time - 5 hours and 2 minutes, to be exact - to diagnose rare genetic diseases, and they are hopeful to soon cut the sequencing time in half.
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Health USARecord Number of Vaccines Delivered to Developing Countries
The U.N.-backed dose-sharing initiative, Covax, delivered a record number of coronavirus vaccine doses in the last month of 2021: over 309 million doses were delivered to over 70 countries in December, roughly a third of all deliveries last year in a single month.
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Health USAThis Pill Fights Off COVID-19, Including the Omicron Variant
The American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation Pfizer announced that its antiviral pill developed to treat Covid-19 should be effective against the Omicron variant, thus counting as a useful tool to prevent hospitals from overflowing.
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Technology CanadaHow Common Foods Help Grow Human Cells (and Why it is Important)
A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Ottawa, in Canada, discovered that common foods offered the perfect structure for mammalian cells to grow, cells needed to help repair damaged tissue and regenerate organs.