GUINEA-BISSAU STOPS VACCINE STUDY FUNDED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. (PHOTO).
Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any links to autism. The West African country, one of the region's poorest, has high rates of hepatitis B, and the prospective study had drawn an outcry from scientists and international health bodies because only half the newborns in the trial would get the vaccine at birth. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said it was not ethical. Guinea-Bissau last month suspended the trial pending an ethical review. Critics had said it was being used to test theories linking vaccines to autism, long promoted by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr but contradicted by scientific evidence. Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira said in an interview on Tuesday that the study had been closed, citing concer...
A 72 year old Indian woman and her 79 year old husband have celebrated the birth of their first child after 46 years of marriage,with the help of IVF treatment.Daljinder Kaur gave birth last month after two years of treatment using donor eggs at a fertility clinic in the northern state of Haynana.The couple's son,born ''healthy and hearty'' and weighing 4.4lb {2kg},has been named Arman.The issue aroused debate online,with many thinking giving birth at a later state in life was irresponsible for the baby.The father of the child said the boy would be unfazed by his parents'' age,however.''People say,what will happen to the child once we die.But i have full faith in God.God is omnipotent and Omnipresent;he will take care of everything''.Nawahaoo.More photos below. 
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