Day: January 11, 2022

Gaea Katreena Cabico – Philstar.com January 11, 2022 | 3:25pm MANILA, Philippines — The country’s Food and Drug Administration has granted a compassionate special permit for the generic version of Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill, its chief said. FDA officer-in-charge Oscar Gutierrez said the drug regulator has approved the application of the Department of Health for a special permit for the institutional use of Bexovid, the first generic version of Pfizer’s Paxlovid. “The DOH will make [Bexovid] accessible and available to government hospital once the Biocare Lifescience, Inc. will deliver this to them...

The food we eat, fluids we drink, and medicines we take, once expelled from our bodies, must end up somewhere. Thanks to a recently published scientific model, the destination of a global flood of human waste into coastal areas has at last been tracked for all to see. And it doesn’t make for a pretty picture. According to that new model, wastewater adds around 6.2 million tons of nitrogen to coastal waters worldwide annually; equivalent to around 40% of the amount emitted by agricultural runoff. Nitrogen is one of the worst pollutants of our planet’s oceans, causing toxic algal blooms, eutroph...