LONDON, March 24 (Reuters) – Most patients admitted to hospital with acute viral infections are given antibiotics as a precaution against bacterial co-infection, but the practice may not improve survival, new research suggests. Researchers examined the impact of antibiotic use on survival in more than 2,100 patients in a hospital in Norway between 2017 and … Read more
March 21 (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) Chief Executive Jensen Huang unveiled new cloud computing services on Tuesday with Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) and others as it rolled out a range of new artificial intelligence technologies based on its chips and software. “AI’s iPhone moment has begun,” Huang said in the virtual keynote address at GTC, … Read more
LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) – Some of the world’s leading makers of flu vaccines say they could make hundreds of millions of bird flu shots for humans within months if a new strain of bird flu ever jumps the species divide. A current outbreak of bird flu, known as H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b, has killed a … Read more
JOHANNESBURG/LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) – Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have discovered cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus, according to the World Health Organization and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The WHO said the Burundian government had declared the discovery of the virus a national public health emergency after cases were … Read more