Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Australia's Melbourne extends sixth virus lockdown

A lockdown of Australia's second-biggest city Melbourne will be extended, authorities announced Sunday as they struggle to quash a stubborn coronavirus Delta variant outbreak.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Whooping cough returns as vaccine modified to reduce side-effects

Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. - mostly babies and toddlers - were coming down with whooping cough each year when vaccines against "this menace," as one newspaper called it, were introduced in the 1930s and 1940s.

Vaccination

mRNA vaccine more effective booster to ChAdOx1 nCoV-19

(HealthDay)—Use of heterologous ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and mRNA prime-boost vaccination is more effective than homologous ChAdOx1 nCoV-19/ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 prime-boost vaccination, according to a study published online Oct. 17 in ...

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