Faster testing could allow more people to return to work or permit testing on entry to hospital, thus slowing a second spike in coronavirus infections.... Sep 18
Russia announced last month that its vaccine, named "Sputnik V" after the Soviet-era satellite that was the first launched into space in 1957, had ... Sep 10
The report said the data showed that the vaccine was "safe, well tolerated, and does not cause serious adverse events in healthy adult volunteers"... Sep 05
This is the first European Commission COVID-19 vaccine agreement that enables all EU member states to access the vaccine at no profit during the ... Aug 19
Charles Gerba, a professor of virology at the University of Arizona, captured the image to demonstrate the spread of particles after a flush.... Aug 19
Charles Gerba, a professor of virology at the University of Arizona, demonstrate the spread of particles after a flush after he captured an image post ... Aug 19
A major deal registered to provide 400M doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to the EU ... Aug 19
A badly malformed Centrosaurus leg bone unearthed in the Alberta, Canada badlands in 1989 had originally been thought by paleontologists to be a healed fracture... Aug 06
According to UNICEF, in India, there are still around 20 million children under five years of age who are suffering from wasting.... Jul 29
A third different type of vaccine from Pfizer Inc and German biotech BioNTech also showed promise in a small, early study released on Monday, adding ... Jul 21
The vaccine did not prompt any serious side effects and elicited antibody and T-cell immune responses... Jul 21
Asia and central and eastern Europe will see some of the fastest reductions, according to the analysis... Jul 15
For herd immunity to work, at least 70 percent of a population needs to be immune to protect the uninfected people, experts say.... Jul 08
Rapkiewicz, who directs autopsies at NYU Langone Health, noticed that some organs had far too many of a special type of cell rarely found in ... Jul 02
Scientists see a ‘huge puzzle’ without easy answers ... Jun 19
The novel coronavirus, which has killed many globally during the first wave of the pandemic, adversely affects patients suffering from co-morbidities.... Jun 16
After a systematic review to assess whether ethnicity has been reported in patients with COVID-19 and its relation to clinical outcomes.... Jun 06
The anti-malarial drug has been highly controversial since US President Donald Trump said the drug could be a potential "game-changer" in the coronavirus ... Jun 06
The study analyzed some 96,000 patient records, finding that hydroxychloroquine showed no benefit against the coronavirus and increased the risk of dying in the ... Jun 05
US President Donald Trump has backed the anti-malarial drug for COVID-19 prevention and treatment, prompting governments to bulk-buy.... Jun 04
HCQ will be used as a prophylactic to help defend Brazil's nurses, doctors, and healthcare professionals against the virus.... Jun 01
The Washington Post cited the study, published in the Lancet, on Tuesday, saying that most elderly Covid-19 patients put on ventilators at two New ... May 21
A University of Oxford study looked at more than 3,600 COVID-19 test results and found that deprivation, age and chronic liver disease all ... May 16
At least five children -- three in New York, and one each in France and Britain -- have died from the syndrome, and at least two other ... May 16