FILE - The Pfizer logo is displayed at the company's headquarters in New York, on Feb. 5, 2021. In a statement on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, drugmaker Pfizer Inc. said it has signed a deal with a U.N.-ba

Xu Yu, an immunologist at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard and senior author of a new report on a second person to be "naturally" cured of HIV. One evening in March 2020, a doctor walked

November 15, 2021—CDC’s most recent FluView reports increases in flu activity that could mark the beginning of the 2021-2022 flu season. While flu activity is still low overall nationally, there has b

Recent polls show a 25 percentage-point gap between Republicans and Democrats who've gotten or will get a flu shot. This is remarkably similar to the approximately 30 percentage-point partisan gap on

Taxpayers are facing a hefty bill for rare but significant coronavirus vaccine injuries, with at least 10,000 people planning to claim under the federal government’s no-fault indemnity scheme. Servic

Influenza is sweeping the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus, with 528 cases diagnosed at the University Health Service since Oct. 6. The outbreak is so sudden and large — 313 cases were ident

WHO has released a new toolkit to enable countries to accelerate their ongoing efforts to fully adopt WHO guidelines and transition to new HIV testing algorithms. In 2019, in response to changing epi

In a study, persons who received Sinopharm’s inoculation may be more susceptible to a breakthrough coronavirus infection than those who received Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s COVID-19 shot, which prod

Before her daughter’s birth, she spent weeks in bed. Another difficult pregnancy would be worse as she tried to care for her toddler. Faced with that possibility, the 28-year-old Texas woman did what

Corner pharmacies, once widespread in large cities and rural hamlets alike, are disappearing from many areas of the country, leaving an estimated 41 million Americans in what are known as drugstore de

Three snow leopards at a zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska, have died of complications from COVID-19, the Lincoln Children's Zoo announced Friday evening. Two Sumatran tigers who contracted the virus at the zo

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Harrison Hill Smith, a Texas radio host, was denied monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID because he is white, not black or Hispanic. Smith, who presents the American Journal on the InfoWars networ

Doctors should incorporate air pollution to their list of risk factors for heart disease when treating patients, a study out Thursday from the New England Journal of Medicine urges. The big picture:

When I first suspected that I was losing my hair, I felt like maybe I was also losing my grip on reality. This was the summer of 2020, and although the previous three months had been difficult for vir

On 23 October, the Canadian Armed Forces announced it was deploying mobile units to treat water from the river and transfer it to city trucks to take it to water depots for residents. The deployment m

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld its previous order temporarily blocking President Joe Biden's vaccine and testing mandate for large companies, rejecting a Justice Department request to lift t

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government on Friday directed nursing homes to open their doors wide to visitors, easing many remaining pandemic restrictions while urging residents, families and facility staff

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Last year, COVID-19 hit one of its peaks right after Thanksgiving. Health officials want to prevent that from happening again this year. Health officials are urging you to k

The NBA has raised the level of urgency regarding getting booster shots against the coronavirus, telling players and coaches that it is no longer advisable to wait before receiving the additional dose

Abstract Objective A small thigh circumference is associated with an increased risk of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and total mortality. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association

Nurses stepped up to the challenge of caring for patients during the pandemic, and over 1,150 of us have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. As cases and deaths surge, nurses continue working in a broken s

2 of the patients were hospitalized with neurological symptoms Three more cases of Jamestown Canyon virus have been identified in New Hampshire, the state Department of Health and Human Services anno

Blood pressure drugs could prevent millions of people worldwide from developing type 2 diabetes, a large study suggests. Lowering high blood pressure is an effective way to slash the risk of the dise

Five Participants Gain Cognitive Benefits After Receiving Intranasal Gene Therapy Telomere shortening and the reduced expression of Klotho directly correlate with the diseases of aging, this study de

St. Louis-area health officials are worried that people who don’t trust the COVID-19 vaccine are becoming hesitant to get other immunizations. Clinical trials have proven the COVID-19 vaccine is safe

An experimental COVID-19 treatment pill, called molnupiravir and being developed by Merck & Co Inc and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP, is seen in this undated handout photo released by Merck & Co Inc an

ATLANTA, Georgia (WKRN) — A new strain of the flu that typically is not seen in humans was recently identified in two children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the two

Researchers say that about half of teens receive minimum standards of sex education, a far lower number than 25 years ago. File Photo by Zurijeta/Shutterstock Sex Ed -- it's been a staple of public e

Children ages 5-11 are the latest group in the United States to be eligible for coronavirus vaccines, joining nearly a quarter billion people aged 12 and up who have had at least one dose so far. In t

Interview by Melissa Hartman Early in the pandemic, treatment options for COVID-19 patients were scarce. As knowledge evolved on how best to treat hospitalized patients, the search intensified for wa

Scientists have shown how a fatty acid found in palm oil can encourage the spread of cancer, in work that could pave the way for new treatments. The study, on mice, found that palmitic acid promoted

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins is advising fully vaccinated Americans to get their Covid booster shots to prevent breakthrough cases over the holidays, citing data from Isr

Water consumed by millions contains chemicals linked to cancer, brain damage and more, according to new report. Decaying infrastructure and pollution from toxic “forever chemicals” are causing tens o

Australia was officially declared polio-free in 2000. Two decades later, for many people the only time they’ve stopped to think about the disease was the moment the poliovirus vaccine certification wa

Christians, can we talk? (If you’re not a Christian, please stay. Everyone is welcome, but we white evangelicals — some of the most vaccine-hesitant people in the country — need to caucus.) Christia