A congressional report showed on Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to adhere to its own guidance and internal practices during the approval process for Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, which was “rife with irregularities.” The FDA’s interactions with Biogen were “atypical” and did not follow the agency’s documentation protocol, according to a staff report on the findings of an 18-month investigation conducted by two House of Representatives committees into the drug’s regulatory review, approval, pricing, and marketing. The FDA approved Aduhelm in June 2021 under an accelerated approval pathway over the objections of its panel of outside advisers,…
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In late 2019, Africa Oil Corp. President and CEO Keith Hill told Petroleum Economist that, given Africa’s unproven oil and gas basins, the continent was probably “the greatest frontier,” with outstanding opportunities for exploration, production, and development companies, including independents. Three years later, Hill remains bullish about Africa, and Canada-headquartered Africa Oil Corp. is driving oil and gas exploration here. The company is part of a growing trend we’re seeing: independent oil and gas companies that recognize the tremendous promise of our underexplored continent and are finding ways to thrive here — and make a positive impact. I’m extremely optimistic…
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has pledged to partner with the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) to resolve the challenges facing the Nigeria Police Force. Mr. Ikechukwu Ani, the Head of Press and Public Relations of the commission, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Ani said the acting Chairman of PSC, Justice Clara Ogunbiyi made the pledge when the new leadership of PCRC, led by its Chairman, Mogaji Olaniyan paid her a courtesy visit. Ogunbiyi congratulated the newly elected national officers and said that the partnership was to find a lasting solution to the problems facing the Force. She…
“There still are probably additional deaths that will be announced later today,” Poloncarz said. A severe snowstorm in western New York over Christmas weekend has killed at least 25 people, Erie county officials said on Monday. This is coming as road and utility crews faced a long day of digging out the snowed-in region around Buffalo. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz told reporters at a Monday morning briefing that the county’s tally of storm-related deaths had jumped by 12 overnight, and included cases of people who were found in snow banks, in their cars or who had died from cardiac…
South Korea has formally lifted a ban on the import of full-body sex dolls, ending years of debate over how much the government can interfere in private life. Although there are no laws or regulations banning the import of sex dolls, hundreds, and perhaps thousands, have been seized by the customs, which cited a clause in the law that bans the import of goods that “harm the country’s beautiful traditions and public moral.” Importers complained and took their case to courts, most of which agreed with them and ordered customs to release the sex dolls, saying they are used in…
“We are experiencing the first endemic wave with Sars-CoV-2 this winter; in my estimation, the pandemic is over,” said Christian Drosten, the head of virology at Berlin’s Charité University Hospital. The Covid-19 pandemic can be considered over as it is now an endemic disease, German virologist Christian Drosten said in comments to the Tagesspiegel newspaper published on Monday. After this winter, the immunity in the population would be so broad and resilient that the virus stood little chance in the summer, he said. Responding to Drosten’s remarks, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann called for all restrictive measures to be allowed to…
“From a legal and political point of view, there can be only one conclusion: Russia is an usurper of the Soviet Union’s seat in the UN Security Council,” the statement reads. According to the statement of Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign affairs, the Russian Federation has never gone through the legal procedure to be admitted to membership in the United Nations and therefore illegally occupies the seat of the USSR in the UN Security Council “From a legal and political point of view, there can be only one conclusion: Russia is an usurper of the Soviet Union’s seat in the UN Security Council,” the…
With 206,943 new cases on Wednesday, it was the first time since August 25 that a single day’s total had surpassed 200,000 Japan’s health authorities reported that 371 deaths were caused by COVID-19 virus in the country in a single day, the highest in a day since the pandemic began in 2020. The country is coping with the eighth wave of the pandemic. The Ministry of Health reported on September 2 that the previous high of 347 COVID-19 deaths occurred during the seventh wave. As of Saturday, the total number of deaths had risen to 54,680. With 28, Kanagawa had…
He made the vow to destroy the anti-missile system that can effectively destroy incoming targets in an interview that aired on Christmas Day on the state-controlled Rossiya-1 TV channel. Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to destroy the Patriot Missile Defense Systems if the U.S. follows through with its commitment to supply them to Ukraine. During the interview with state-approved journalist Pavel Zarubin, Putin said he was assured Ukraine “does not have such complexes yet” and maintained Russia would destroy the systems. “Of course, we will click, 100 percent,” Putin said, according to the Russian state media outlet TASS. The Patriot Missle Defense System…
“With regard to the Ukraine crisis, we have consistently upheld the fundamental principles of objectivity and impartiality, without favouring one side or the other, or adding fuel to the fire, still less seeking selfish gains from the situation,” Wang said Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi has defended his country’s position in the war in Ukraine and suggested that it would deepen ties with Russia in the year ahead, as he hailed the “historic strides forward” in Chinese-Arab relations. He also hailed ‘historic’ improvement in ties with Arab countries. Wang who spoke through video to a conference in the Chinese capital on Sunday…