Nearly 500 politically-connected people in Peru, including former President Martin Vizcarra, received doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine ahead of schedule. The incident is now being dubbed as "vaccine-gate."
In response to eradicating COVID-19 worldwide, the U.S. government will give up to $4 billion to the global COVAX campaign to help developing countries with their battle against the deadly disease.
The United States is not yet ruling out the possibility that the origin of the COVID-19 came from a laboratory leak in China, despite the World Health Organization's (WHO) finding that the virus outbreak most likely initially infected humans through an animal host.
The United States' top infectious disease official, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has received a monetary Israeli prize worth $1 million. Fauci is among six other researchers who received two additional $1 million prizes for their contributions to health and medicine.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday granted an emergency authorization to the COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, giving additional hope that the end of the global pandemic could be in sight.
Children as young as six-years-old will be tested with the COVID-19 vaccine, with the University of Oxford launching a new clinical study to review the safety of its vaccine with AstraZeneca in children for the first time.
Miracle cure for baldness discovered by researchers (Photo : Ilya S. Savenok) A model walks the runway for Hair Couture New York Fashion Week at The Prince George Ballroom on February 09, 2020 in New York City.
Prostatitis is a common problem that affects most men. It manifests in the form of inflammation of the prostate gland, whose cause can differ from one patient to another.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Friday its updated guidelines on how to safely bring the students back into the classrooms amid a pandemic that has killed almost 480,000 people in the United States.
With the Biden administration securing millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, will Americans sill avail the vaccine even after incidents of ineffectiveness?
The leading testing companies and laboratories in the United States said their COVID-19 tests are ready to accurately identify new virus variants as they emerge.
Some COVID-19 vaccine recipients developed a rare blood disorder upon receiving their first dose. This was the case of 72-year-old Luz Legaspi, who woke up with bruises on her arms and legs, and blisters that bled inside her mouth after receiving her first shot of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
British drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Saturday that its vaccine candidate being developed in partnership with the University of Oxford appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused by the South African variant of COVID-19.
Johnson & Johnson filed an application for emergency use authorization on Thursday for its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine, which brings it one step closer to helping the U.S. fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Only 38 percent of nursing home staff accepted shots when they were offered a dose of COVID-19 vaccine despite being considered a top priority for vaccination, revealed the new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday.
