Health & Science

Holmes is facing federal charges in connection with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud regarding her now defunct healthcare tech start-up, Theranos.

Nepal’s second wave of Covid infections is tapering off — but the country needs more vaccines, Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli said.

Guangdong, a major shipping hub, accounts for about 24% of China’s total exports and is home to the Shenzhen port and the Guangzhou port. 

India set an ambitious target to manufacture more than 2 billion Covid-19 vaccines by December — enough to inoculate most of its 1.3 billion population.

New variants that are more transmissible, such as Alpha and Delta, are driving increased transmission globally, WHO officials said Monday.

With an abundance of vaccines already available in the United States, it’s possible that the government would donate the Novavax doses to other countries.

The leaders of the G-7 issued a joint statement promising to enact measures on Covid vaccines, China and global corporate tax.

Biogen Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm is the first new treatment for dementia approved by the FDA in decades, and it’s started a war over the brain drug pipeline.

Dr. Peter Hotez explains why southern states could feel the impact of the highly transmissible delta variant of coronavirus as early as summer.

Suicide attempts surged among adolescents during the pandemic and got worse the longer social distancing orders and government lockdowns persisted, the CDC said

The company said it made the conclusion after “carefully reviewing the available safety data to date for Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine.”

Some of the 12,000 attendees who flew into Miami last weekend for the first big tech conference in more than a year have started testing positive for Covid.

Health ministry data showed 6,148 deaths were recorded over a 24-hour period, as daily reported cases remained below 100,000 for the third consecutive day.

The number of severe cases of myocarditis or pericarditis in people ages 16 to 24 remains quite low, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC.

Local infections in Singapore have fallen to single-digit levels in recent days.

Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, could cost Medicare billions of dollars a year, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation.

Children need to be vaccinated against Covid-19, Dr. Paul Offit, a top advisor to the FDA on children’s vaccines, told the agency Thursday.

The EU and the U.S. will call for more progress on an investigation into the origins of Covid-19, according to a draft EU document.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes “girlboss” swag is becoming popular on social media.

As vaccination rates plateau, public and private groups are devising incentives to spur immunizations. In Washington, residents can now get “Joints for Jabs.”