June 22 (Reuters) – The University of Nebraska Medical Center said on Monday all 18 U.S.-resident passengers from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship have returned to their…
Read more All US Passengers From Hantavirus-Hit Ship Return to Home StatesNICOSIA, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Cyprus imposed strict livestock controls on Tuesday after authorities confirmed multiple cases of foot and mouth disease, triggering nationwide restrictions on the movement…
Read more Cyprus Imposes Livestock Controls Amid Foot and Mouth OutbreakKINSHASA, Jan 10 – More than 50 refugees fleeing fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have died in neighbouring Burundi, the United Nations Refugee Agency told Reuters…
Read more UN Says 53 Congolese Refugees Have Died in BurundiDec 19 (Reuters) – The United States Department of Agriculture on Friday confirmed that a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a Wisconsin dairy herd marked a…
Read more USDA Confirms Bird Flu Case in Wisconsin Dairy Herd as New Wildlife SpilloverKHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (Reuters) -Stinking mounds of fly-covered garbage lie strewn throughout Gaza amid the rubble from Israel’s devastating military campaign, spilling out along roadsides and between…
Read more Piles of Garbage and Seeping Sewage Pollute Devastated GazaMost patients are unlikely to develop severe disease or die if they get the current variants of COVID-19 as immunity levels have climbed given higher levels of vaccination.…
Read more WHO’s new COVID guidelines see fewer patients requiring hospitalizationFINDLAY, Ohio — Communities ravaged by America’s opioid epidemic are starting to get their share of a $50 billion pie from legal settlements. Most of that money comes…
Read more As billions roll in to fight opioid epidemic, one county shows how recovery can workMajor U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid says it has filed for bankruptcy and obtained $3.45 billion in fresh financing as it carries out a restructuring plan while coping…
Read more Major US pharmacy chain Rite Aid files for bankruptcySTOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The award was…
Read more Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19It may be time to get your COVID-19 vaccine again. There’s a new booster that’s coming out to guard against the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and…
Read more 5 things to know about the new COVID-19 vaccineThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended updated COVID-19 vaccines for people 6 months of age and older. Director Mandy Cohen late Tuesday backed the…
Read more CDC recommends updated COVID shots for people 6 months of age and olderA new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has put epidemiologists around the world on alert, and the World Health Organization is asking countries to sustain early warning, surveillance…
Read more New coronavirus variant has experts on alert and WHO is urging countries to step up COVID surveillanceThe World Health Organization has upgraded COVID-19 variant EG.5 to a variant of interest, or VOI, from a variant under monitoring, or VUM, as it continues to become…
Read more WHO names Eris a COVID variant of interest. Here’s what you need to know.A new variant of COVID-19 dubbed EG.5 has become dominant in the U.S., according to projections made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, although a shortage…
Read more New ‘Eris’ COVID variant is dominant in the U.S., but a shortage of data is making it hard to trackThe COVID-19 pandemic is definitively over, according to two recent reports focused on the same metric. That metric is excess deaths, a measure of the difference between the…
Read more COVID pandemic is officially over in the U.S., excess-deaths data showThe slide in the U.S. dollar in the last eight months could mean that mean all of its gains in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic will soon…
Read more U.S. dollar could soon wipe out all of its post-pandemic gains, Soc Gen strategist warnsNarisara Nami | Moment | Getty Images A panel of independent advisors to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended Thursday that the antibody nirsevimab be approved for…
Read more FDA advisors recommend AstraZeneca antibody to protect babies from RSVTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, December 20, 2021. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The spread of…
Read more WHO declares end to Covid-19 global public health emergencyThe World Health Organization on Friday declared an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. Speaking at a press conference at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva, WHO Director-General…
Read more World Health Organization declares end to COVID global health emergencyThe pandemic opened the floodgates to telehealth. Now, many patients and doctors are curbing their enthusiasm for virtual care. Four out of five primary-care doctors who had video…
Read more The doctor won’t Zoom with you now: The telehealth frenzy is over.
