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COVID
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.

MEDICAL STUDIES
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”.

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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.”

COVID
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”.

COVID
Professor Dame Jenny Harries, who now heads up the U.K. Health Security Agency

There is no solid proof masks ever slowed the spread of Covid and they may have made things worse, England’s former Deputy Chief Medical Officer said on Wednesday.

CATHOLIC VALUES

Doctors Could Refuse Patients Over Religious Beliefs Under New Bill
Anew bill being advanced by Republican legislators in Iowa would allow healthcare workers and institutions to refuse medical procedures based on the religious or moral beliefs they hold.

PRAYER

Christians should pray for the grace to look at others with the same mercy and care with which Jesus looks at them, Pope Francis said.

GENE THERAPY

Modular system can perform strand-specific editing without any cuts, but team says more research is needed
It comes as China’s biotechnology sector is bracing for possible export restrictions from the United States