A Covid-19 vaccine developed and tested in Russia generated neutralizing antibodies in dozens of study subjects, and while the vaccine often caused side effects such as fever, those side effects were mostly mild, according to data published Friday in the medical journal The Lancet.
They are among the greatest victims of coronavirus, yet elderly people continue to be dismissed, despite growing evidence of the devastating effects the pandemic has had on them.
It is harder because it was so sudden. It is harder because it is a disease that I know all too well. It is harder because he was young, gifted and Black. It is harder because our community has already endured so much in this cold and callous year that is 2020.
"We ain't got nowhere to go," Israel Rodriguez Sr. told Deputy Bennie Gant of the Harris County Constable's Office in Houston, who had come to evict him and his young family.
Penn State University on Thursday clarified the remarks of the school's director of athletic medicine about how many Big Ten athletes who tested positive for coronavirus now show signs of inflammation of the heart muscle.
Sex in a pandemic can be complicated, Canada's lead medical doctor says, and it's best to skip kissing and perhaps wear a mask to prevent spreading Covid-19.
Changing the clocks twice a year is intended to save energy, but there is a growing consensus that the change - which next occurs November 1 in the US - comes at the cost of human lives.
Whether your kids will be at school at all times, fully remote or on a hybrid schedule, there is a good likelihood that time will be spent making lunches at home.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told public health officials around the United States to prepare to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine as soon as late October. It also provided planning scenarios to help states prepare.
Early stage clinical trial results show the Covid-19 vaccine candidate made by Novavax is safe and elicits an immune response, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine. The results had previously been announced by the company in early August.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doubled down against rumors -- spread mostly on social media -- suggesting that coronavirus deaths have been greatly exaggerated.
Women who dye their hair at home are unlikely to be putting themselves at increased risk of cancer, according to the findings of a new study published Wednesday.
Because bikers came from all across the country, it's difficult to know how many people were infected at the rally and then brought the virus back to their home states. But at least 260 cases linked to the rally have been reported in 12 states.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden blamed President Donald Trump for schools' struggles to open amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying that if Trump had done his job, "American schools would be open and they'd be open safely."
A National Institutes of Health panel said there's no evidence backing the use of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients and that doctors should not treat it as a standard of care until more study has been done.
