Vaccination

Brazil orders 100 million doses of Pfizer vaccine

Brazil has ordered 100 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and another 38 million of Johnson & Johnson's, the health minister said Monday, seeking to accelerate the hard-hit country's lagging immunization ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New push for mRNA bird flu vaccine development: WHO

The World Health Organization announced Monday a new project to accelerate the development in poorer countries of vaccines for human bird flu infections using cutting-edge messenger RNA technology.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Spain's COVID death toll passes 100,000

More than 100,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Spain, health ministry figures showed on Wednesday as the country emerged from a sixth wave of the pandemic.

Medical research

Stepping closer to a universal flu vaccine

Researchers at McMaster University and two American universities have taken another step closer to developing a much more effective, "one-punch" universal flu vaccine.

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