When Health and Human Service Secretary Alex Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses that were being held in reserve for second shots, it turns out that no such reserve existed.
President Joe Biden’s administration is launching a program that will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics…
Babies and toddlers up to 5 years old experienced “modest” developmental delays during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, according to a federally funded study.
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The new molecule has the potential to revolutionize treatment for the deeply neglected and hard-to-treat disease, as the Eastern Africa region charts
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A West Virginia hospital has confirmed the first known case of measles in the state since 2009, health officials said Monday.
Veterinarians and researchers on the front lines say it has taken too long to share data on viral changes, spread, and milk safety
The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID has the unsettling ability of often generating variants of itself. Other viruses also mutate, but as SARS-CoV-2 quickly spread…
A recent statement rattled researchers and shocked communities of long Covid patients.
A West Virginia hospital has confirmed the first known case of measles in the state since 2009. The Monongalia County Health Department says WVU Medicine…
