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Here’s what parents need to know about the COVID vaccine approved for children age 5-11
[November 2,] the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the final OK for youngsters age 5 to 11 to ...
Why aren’t COVID vaccine boosters being tweaked to curtail Delta and other dangerous variants?
More COVID-19 booster shots may be on the way — but when it’s your turn, you’ll get an extra dose ...
NFL agrees to end race-based dementia testing for concussion settlements in $1 billion agreement
The NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired NFL players have reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia ...
Pentagon poised to require COVID vaccinations for all military personnel
Members of the U.S. military will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine beginning next month under a plan laid ...
COVID fake news chronicles: Here’s a week of denial, distortion and misinformation from the dark side of social media
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these ...
Struggling with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the US, Mississippi health officials move to block social media misinformation
The Mississippi State Department of Health is now blocking comments on its Facebook posts that relate to COVID-19 because of ...
Eugenics reparations: California poised to pay up to $25,000 to people who were deemed ‘unfit to have children’ and sterilized
California is poised to approve reparations of up to $25,000 to some of the thousands of people — some as ...
WHO proposes global registry and whistle-blowing mechanism to curb unethical and unsafe human gene editing abuses
The World Health Organization issued new recommendations [July 12] on human genome editing, calling for a global registry to track ...
‘Suicidal negationism’: Vatican launches global campaign to contain ‘myths and disinformation’ ciruclated by vaccine rejectionists
The Vatican’s bioethics academy and the World Medical Association on [July 2] called for an all-out effort to combat vaccine ...
At least 80% COVID vaccine coverage is needed to significantly lower risk of ‘imported’ coronavirus variants, WHO says
COVID-19 vaccination coverage of at least 80% is needed to significantly lower the risk that “imported” coronavirus cases like those ...
‘The effects of naloxone are amazing’: Hospitals in Colorado give out free doses of opioid overdose antidote to at-risk abusers of fentanyl, prescription opioids or heroin
[W]hat if hospital physicians simply handed a vial of naloxone to the patients they worry are most likely to die, ...
Are masks causing more harm than good in battling COVID? Fringe journal publishes speculative report falsely linked to Stanford, fueling conservative media outburst
Websites and social media users ranging from political candidates to health influencers are falsely claiming a study published on a ...
Arizona governor poised to sign or veto bill making it a felony to abort a fetus with genetic abnormalities like Down syndrome
Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature on [April 22] approved a sweeping anti-abortion bill that bans the procedure if the ...
Top disease control official in China admits its vaccines are less effective, then gets rebuked by central government
China has distributed hundreds of millions of doses of domestically made vaccines abroad and is relying on them for its ...
Arizona House passes bill making it a felony to terminate a pregnancy if the fetus has a survivable genetic abnormality
The Republican-controlled Arizona House on [April 1] approved a sweeping abortion bill that makes it a felony for a doctor ...
While many prisoners agree to vaccinations, prison guards emerge as hotbed of vaccine hesitancy
As states have begun COVID-19 inoculations at prisons across the country, corrections employees are refusing vaccines at alarming rates, causing ...
‘Another animal in the zoo’: Indian virus expert expects coronavirus to mutate into less harmful variants
Will the coronavirus, which has already killed more than 2 million people worldwide, eventually be eliminated by a global vaccination ...
Long COVID: This woman’s symptoms started the day COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. A year later, she is still struggling
The same day a global pandemic was declared, [Rachel Van Lear] developed symptoms of COVID-19. A year later, she's still ...
Mississippi bans transgender athletes from competing on women’s sports teams
[March 11, Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill] to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s ...
Defying world trends, India sees dramatic drop in COVID cases, stumping scientists
[Early on in the pandemic, COVID] infections climbed dramatically for months and at one point India looked like it might ...
Full face and hand transplants give badly burned man ‘new chance at life’
Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and ...
Most religious leaders at the head of the anti-abortion movement are backing COVID vaccines
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which says fighting abortion is its “preeminent” priority, said last month that getting vaccinated ...
Video: Fire Fauci? Trump suggests he will take ‘advice’ of chanting supporters and dismiss America’s infectious disease expert ‘after the election’
Speaking at a campaign rally in Opa-locka, Florida, Trump expressed frustration that the surging cases of the virus that has killed ...
Can ancient potions treat COVID? Short on modern medicine, Peru’s indigenous groups give them a try
The coronavirus pandemic’s ruthless march through Peru — the country with the world’s highest per-population confirmed COVID-19 mortality rate — ...
How COVID-19 kills
Nine of every 10 students worldwide shut out of their schools at one point. More than 7 million flights grounded ...
‘Desperation is not a strategy’: Slew of low quality studies clouds picture of how to confront COVID-19
Desperate to solve the deadly conundrum of COVID-19, the world is clamoring for fast answers and solutions from a research ...
Activists push for magic mushroom decriminalization in DC
[July 8,] activists presented more than 36,000 signatures to the [Washington DC] Board of Elections. If the signatures hold up ...
