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Month: March 2021

EU regulator declares AstraZeneca vaccine safe, but experts fear damage has been done

The European Union’s medicines regulator has concluded that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is safe to use after several EU countries suspended their rollouts following reports that it could be linked to blood clots. The European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s executive director Emer Cooke said the agency had “come to a clear scientific conclusion: this is a

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Sharon Stone says she was misled about explicit interrogation scene in ‘Basic Instinct’ — Vanity Fair

Sharon Stone says she wasn’t warned that her genitals would be exposed in the infamous interrogation scene in “Basic Instinct.” In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, published in Vanity Fair, the Golden Globe-winning actress talked about filming the 1992 erotic drama, saying that although the movie made her a star, the “terrifying” experience of

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BioNTech ‘turning every stone’ to scale up vaccine production, co-founder tells CNN

The makers of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine are “turning every stone” to scale up production capacity as Europe continues to suffer from a deficit in vaccine supply. In an exclusive interview with CNN, BioNTech co-founder and chief medical officer Özlem Türeci said the company is “continuously reevaluating how the target we have already set could

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Nursing home hit with second-highest federal fine in N.Y. for Covid-19 violations

Click here for updates on this story     BUFFALO, New York (The Buffalo News) — A recently imposed $50,869 fine against a Buffalo nursing home where workers failed to follow measures aimed at preventing the spread of Covid-19 represents the second-biggest federal penalty against a long-term care facility in the state. During a Covid-19-focused inspection last

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