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A New York State Supreme Court judge in the Bronx ruled Monday that the state must immediately offer COVID-19 vaccines to inmates in its correctional system, reports said.

A study led by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) claims that adolescents (ages 12-17) are more likely to develop a substance abuse disorder after trying marijuana or misusing prescription drugs.

President Biden called on governors and local leaders to reinstate coronavirus-related mask mandates during a White House briefing Monday, before announcing several other vaccine-related directives. 

On March 4, 2020, when there were just 84 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.K., professor Sharon Peacock recognized that the country needed to expand its capacity to analyze the genetic makeup of the virus.

A year after COVID-19 upended life for millions of Americans, there are troubling signs that the coronavirus may have also slowed progress against another deadly health threat: smoking.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the state’s eligibility for COVID-19 vaccinations will expand to include those aged 30 and older starting Tuesday, March 30. The following week, eligibility will broaden to include all New Yorkers aged 16 and older.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky during a White House briefing on Monday warned of "impending doom" amid a recent increase in coronavirus cases and related hospitalizations. Walensky appeared to hold back tears as she expressed concerns the U.S. could soon bear witness to a fourth surge — even as the county has averaged some 2.7 million vaccinations over the past week alone. 

Coronavirus vaccines developed on an mRNA technology, like those from Pfizer and Moderna, are “highly effective,” in tamping down asymptomatic infections, according to findings posted Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An Amish community in Pennsylvania may have become the first group in the U.S. to achieve herd immunity, a local health official claims.

Servier was fined hundreds of millions of euros on Monday for its role in one of France’s biggest modern health scandals. The court found the company guilty of manslaughter and other charges for selling a diabetes drug blamed for hundreds of deaths.

A senior fellow at the Atlantic Council called for a substantial, international investigation into the origins of the coronavirus and said the World Health Organization’s inquiry has been dreadfully inadequate.

Fauci believes that natural adaptation of the virus is "more likely" than the theory that it escaped from a lab.

State officials have touted the Excelsior app as a tool that will help reopen safely.

Hoping to avoid a coronavirus infection? Avoid burnout and get good sleep, suggests the findings of a new study. 

New evidence released Friday from the CDC builds on well-documented worsening mental health trends amid the pandemic, especially among young adults. However, researchers did not determine cause of symptoms, and suggested seasonal-related depression could play a role in the results.

A New Hampshire woman who lost her 13-year-old daughter to a brain tumor in 2016 has now given birth to a son — at age 57.

Health officials in Washington state are monitoring 23 people for Ebola after they returned from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), two West African countries that are currently seeing outbreaks of the infectious disease.

A new trial involving 12,000 college students from around 20 universities in the U.S. will focus on COVID-19 vaccines and the impact they have on asymptomatic transmission.

The University of Oxford is studying a nasal spray version of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine among 30 young, healthy volunteers, and will assess the induced immune response, safety and any side effects.

An investigation is underway into the death of a 68-year-old Kansas woman who experienced a reaction to the coronavirus vaccine and received medical treatment but later died.