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Why it's hard to make Covid vaccines and boost supplies

Frustrated populations want to know: How can we get more Covid-19 vaccines now?

Experts predict further Covid mutation chaos

Scientists are racing to work out if existing vaccines will work against the new variants.

Pills could replace Covid jabs with biotech breakthrough

A pill-based vaccine could transform the fight against Covid-19.

The business betting on magic mushrooms to treat depression

Drugs once condemned are now being used for medicinal purposes.

It's time to come together with a global collaboration on vaccines

Opinion: Vaccine roll-out isn't ample to meet the pandemic and will leave millions behind.

Calls for calm after allergic reactions to Covid vaccine

Health experts are attempting to stamp out public panic about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

The Kremlin is offering Russians free vaccines, but will they take them?

New York Times: A lack of trust is hobbling Russia's rollout of their Covid-19 vaccine.

Microwave energy likely source of illness in Cuba

US diplomats in Cuba reported hearing high-pitched sounds when staying in hotels.

Choices, choices: How to decide where to train or study in NZ

How to choose the best place to train or retrain in the Covid recession.

Student's fatal overdose: Medsafe to consider paracetamol sale restrictions

Coroner wants tighter sales restrictions on sales of the painkiller.

Mum dying after multiple tests fail to detect cancer; claims of racial bias

Teresa McCarthy, 58, has declined further treatment - without which she will die.

Covid: UK could get 40m Pfizer vaccine jabs by New Year

NZ has also signed with Pfizer, which says it's manufacturing at scale as trials continue.

WHO study finds remdesivir didn't help Covid patients

Concerns at how effective remdesivir is against Covid - but questions over WHO study too.

Kiwi tech tackles silent struggle affecting millions of women

An idea five years in the making is ready to go to market.

Legal challenge over medical school entry dropped

University and the man, whose name is suppressed, released a statement this afternoon.

Trio win Nobel medicine award for hepatitis C virus discovery

Scientists Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice win Nobel medicine prize.