Health

When will your medical care collapse?

A retirement wave, mass quarantine, or lack of interest to work in the countryside: There are numerous reasons why a more-than-average number of medical practices could be closing at the same time. The system usually can ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Calls for key Covid drug to be made available outside US

Researchers have called for an experimental COVID treatment, which has shown early indications of being more effective against dominant Omicron subvariants, to be made available outside the United States.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

UK buys more vaccines for monkeypox as cases top 2,100

British has bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130, the majority of them in London, officials said Tuesday.

Vaccination

Pharma industry urges fairer vaccine access in future

The pharmaceutical industry on Tuesday proposed a system to allow for more equitable access to vaccines and treatments in future pandemics, saying it was willing to set aside doses to distribute to lower-income countries.

Medical research

Speeding up the search for the next COVID-19 antiviral

To put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror and prevent other coronaviruses from causing havoc, the world needs an arsenal of measures to prevent and treat these infections. To develop new medications, researchers ...

Vaccination

Australia offers fourth COVID shot to over-30s

Australia will offer a fourth COVID-19 vaccine to everyone over 30, health authorities said Thursday, as hospitals bulge with patients in a winter wave of infections.

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