Pandemic

De EU onderhandelt met Pfizer over de levering van nog eens 1,8 miljard doses.

The first Covid-19 human challenge trial has begun in the U.K. Here's what past trials have been like for participants.

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 14 (IPS) - Millions of lives lost. Trillions of dollars in economic damage. Over 120 million more people pushed into extreme poverty. The human and economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is almost unimaginable – a once-in-a-century catastrophe.

21WIRE | Colleges administrators are now requiring young people to take an experimental and not properly licensed pharmaceutical product.

Though these songs may sound like they were inspired by the pandemic, Aaron Lee Tasjan's had an anxious mind since before the lockdown.

Women seeking an abortion pill will not be required to visit a doctor's office or clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday in the latest reversal in an ongoing legal battle over the medication.

"What a disaster."

The U.S. health agencies' decision to recommend a pause in administering the Johnson & Johnso...

Federal officials on Tuesday pulled the brakes on the use of the Johnson & Johnson shot after reports of six patients experiencing blood clots and a "stroke-like illness." The Food and Dr…

David Beasley, the American chief of the U.N.'s food agency, points to food insecurity in parts of Latin America as a key factor in surging immigration numbers at the southern U.S. border.

A monthslong effort to monitor and model economic trends inside the White House and the Treasury Department found little risk of prices spiraling upward faster than the Fed can manage.

Women seeking an abortion pill will not be required to visit a doctor's office or clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said in the latest reversal in an ongoing legal battle over the medication.

The president and former president will join a host of other high-profile names in encouraging Americans to get vaccinated.

Source: Cottage Health Cottage Health's Drive-Up Vaccination Clinic at the Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital campus has 8,500 first dose appointments of Pfizer vaccine available for this week (April 13-17). The remaining 1,500 are dose two appointments. Visit myturn.ca.gov to schedule an appointment. Everyone age 16 and over is eligible to receive the Pfizer vaccine. Those age 16 and 17 must be accompanied by a parent…

Social stress combined with job strain may significantly raise a woman's risk of developing coronary heart disease, a new study suggests.

Moderna said Tuesday its vaccine was 90% effective in protecting people from COVID-19 six months after their shots. The results were on par with the...

Among the immediate measures to combat a fourth wave of coronavirus cases, wearing masks...

Many CEOs are fighting President Joe Biden's planned corporate tax hike. CEOs surveyed by Business Roundtable say reversing Trump's 2017 cuts boosted...

The warning from U.S. officials to states is likely to fuel more hesitancy in taking J&J's shot and other vaccines, threatening to stall the pandemic recovery.

South Africa has suspended giving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as a "precautionary measure" following the FDA decision in the United States to pause using it while very rare blood clot cases are examined.