Vaccination

New Covid vaccines out in US 'in the coming days'

US health authorities on Thursday approved updated versions of Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines, with the companies saying the jabs will be available "in the coming days."

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

US will offer free COVID tests by mail by late September

As a summer surge in COVID cases begins to ebb and Americans brace themselves for yet another wave of infections this winter, more free COVID tests will soon be available to all, federal health officials announced Friday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Dangerous airborne fungus boosted by California droughts

Valley fever is an emerging fungal disease in the western United States that most often causes flu-like symptoms, but can also cause dangerous or even deadly complications. By analyzing data on reported cases of Valley fever ...