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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' hand-picked surgeon general has warned against getting the new COVID-19 booster vaccine that is expected to receive approval in the coming days.

Companies seeking to promote drugs for obesity, diabetes and heart conditions are among the biggest spenders. Photograph: Science Photo Library/Alamy

Observer investigation raises concerns about the influence of drugs companies in shaping patient care in services that use their products

Senior Psychiatrist Dr Jillian Spencer

Senior Psychiatrist Dr Jillian Spencer has lodged a complaint with the Queensland Human Rights Commission over being stood down from the Queensland Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Azadeh Khatibi is suing the Medical Board of California over California’s requirement that continuing medical education courses in the state include discussion of “implicit bias” in a 2019 photo. (Courtesy of Pacific Legal Foundation)

Two doctors are suing the Medical Board of California over a law that forces physicians and educators of physicians to accept radical political and racial indoctrination in order to maintain a medical license.

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Covid vaccines (Switzerland)

In a move that shifts liability for COVID-19 vaccine injuries from the government to physicians, Switzerland said it is not recommending COVID-19 vaccines for spring and summer, even for those people considered to be high risk.

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A stem-cell derived human embryo model showing blue cells (embryo), yellow cells (yolk sac) and pink cells (placenta).

The Weizmann Institute team say their "embryo model", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab. The ambition for embryo models is to provide an ethical way of understanding the earliest moments of our lives.

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One car manufacturer’s US data collection policy has been dubbed “mind boggling, creepy, scary, sad, and messed up”.

Rachel Stephen-Smith (ABC News/Jim Campbell)

The ACT’s Cabinet signed off on the start of work to draft a law to compulsorily acquire Calvary Public Hospital Bruce almost a year before the Government announced the takeover. Source: Canberra Times.

Pope Francis is to address the Clinton Global Initiative conference via video link next week in a “special conversation” with President Bill Clinton, in a discussion including “climate change, the refugee crisis, the welfare of children.”

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AstraZeneca Vaccine

A landmark multimillion-dollar legal case levelled at AstraZeneca has claimed the company’s Covid-19 vaccine administered in millions of people was “defective”.