White House to encourage COVID boosters, flu shot this fall
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as…
WHO: New COVID cases, deaths keep falling nearly everywhere
GENEVA — The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally continued to…
US clears updated COVID boosters targeting newest variants
WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Wednesday authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster…
US life expectancy plunged again in 2021, down nearly a year
NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by…
Sotomayor denies NYPD detective's plea to block vax mandate
NEW YORK — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday denied an appeal from a New…
More polio virus detected in upstate New York wastewater
The virus that causes polio has been found in wastewater samples from another upstate New York…
Monkeypox vaccine supply now sufficient, Biden officials say
The Biden administration says it has shipped enough monkeypox vaccine to deliver the first…
Pfizer asks EU drug regulator to OK tweaked COVID vaccine
LONDON — Pfizer and BioNTech have asked the European Medicines Agency to authorize their…
Moderna sues Pfizer over patents behind COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech, accusing its main…