Healthcare

United States health officials have approved the first new drug for Alzheimer's disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent ...

The Biden administration is buying 500 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to donate to the world as the United States ...

A Gauteng woman has given birth to 10 babies, breaking the Guinness World Record held by Malian Halima Cissé who gave birth to nine children ...

China has authorized the emergency use of CoronaVac, the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Chinese firm Sinovac, for children aged between 3 and 17, ...

A 47-day-old baby from Corfu is being treated for COVID-19 in Ioannina (Greece) after being transported by the Coast Guard to the mainland port town ...

Arum Han, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, and his collaborators have designed an ...

Hong Kong has asked embattled drug giant AstraZeneca to delay delivery of its Covid-19 vaccine and requested they offer a second-generation version ...

More than 3.8 million novel coronavirus cases were registered worldwide in the past week, which is 14% more than during the previous seven-day ...

There is growing uncertainty around the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine. On Monday, Canada’s National Advisory Committee on ...

Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE began testing their COVID-19 vaccine in children under 12, with hopes of expanding vaccination to that age ...

Scientists tracing the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic believe they’ve identified a possible transmission source: China’s thriving wildlife ...

Two local pediatricians, Dr. Paul Gilbert and Dr. Chad Rudnick said it was here in Palm Beach County where for the first time, an infant was born ...

Reuters reported, according to diplomatic and official sources in the European Union, that the bloc is heading to the Russian “Sputnik” ...

Tens of millions of doses of the coronavirus vaccine made by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca are sitting idly in U.S. manufacturing facilities, ...

Former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter will star in two new public service announcements (PSA) for the ...

BioNTech could have the capacity to develop 3 billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine next year, Chief Executive Ugur Sahin said in an interview ...

A Gold Coast health worker was hospitalised after having an adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine.The person had an anaphylactic reaction when ...

The government said Tuesday an investigation would be launched after more than 1,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses had to be thrown out when a freezer ...

The number of coronavirus infections worldwide has decreased by 11% during the period of February 15-21, while the number of fatalities has ...

The COVID-19 pandemic may have resulted in an astonishing 20 million years of life lost worldwide, according to estimates from a new study. On ...

Pfizer and BioNTech have started an international study with 4,000 volunteers to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their COVID-19 vaccine in ...

Peru’s president announced Monday night that 487 officials, including the former ministers of foreign affairs and health, took advantage of ...

Yet another coronavirus variant (B.1.525) has been detected in the UK, as well as ten other countries, including the US, reported the Sputnik news ...

About 90 people were hospitalized with Covid-19-like symptoms in central China in the two months before the disease was first identified in Wuhan in ...

As of today, 2.5 billion people in about 130 countries do not have access to coronavirus vaccines. This is emphasized in a joint statement by WHO ...

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in ...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has tested positive for Covid-19, he said on Sunday evening.The President, who tweeted from his ...

Sri Lanka’s health minister, who has faced criticism for consuming and endorsing a herbal syrup made by a sorcerer, has tested positive for ...

Thousands of doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine were destroyed after a cleaner in Boston accidentally unplugged the freezer in which they were ...

Over 93,000 people died from coronavirus in the past week, which is a record high figure since the start of the pandemic, the World Health ...