MEXICO CITY: The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday that Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Peru are at very high...
MEXICO CITY: The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday that Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Peru are at very high...
PARIS: France's HAS health authority on Tuesday followed the European Union's drug regulator and cleared two separate COVID-19 vaccine boosters updated to target...
NEW YORK: New York City will lift its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private-sector employers on November 1, Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday...
New York: Bluebird Bio Inc.’s gene therapy for a brain-wasting disease received accelerated approval from US regulators, making it the first treatment of...
GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide last week was the lowest...
LONDON: Asking the world to prioritise saving lives in the world's poorest countries is increasingly challenging in a world still rocked by the...
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is set to channel John F. Kennedy on the 60th anniversary of JFK's moonshot speech, highlighting Biden administration efforts...
New York state is ending a 28-month-old COVID-19 mandate requiring masks on trains, buses and other modes of public transit, Governor Kathy Hochul...
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China's southern tech hub of Shenzhen, which went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday for mass COVID-19 testing, said it will adopt...
Beijing: China extended its lockdown in districts of western megacity Chengdu and ordered more mass testing there from Sunday as it tries to...
SHENZHEN: Most residents of the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday as mass COVID-19 testing kicked off...
NEW DELHI: The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's biggest vaccine maker, has developed the country's first cervical cancer shot that will...
GENEVA: The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally continued to fall nearly everywhere in the world in what the World...
WASHINGTON: The US on Wednesday authorised its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today’s most common omicron strain. Shots could...
A cup of tea just got a bit more relaxing. Tea can be part of a healthy diet and people who drink tea...
WASHINGTON: The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated "forever chemicals” that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances,...
Moderna sued Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Friday for patent infringement in the development of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in...
GENEVA: The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped 21% in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections and signaling...