Medicine & TechnologyThe United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended the COVID-19 vaccine of Pfizer for kids aged five to 11 years old, the moment most parents have been looking forward to.
A new study in mouse testing needle-free vaccine showed promising results, a response to researchers' doubling down on initiatives to create effective vaccines sans the needle, a development that could transform medicine.
An advisory to the US Food and Drug Administration unanimously voted last week, authorization of a booster jab, a third dose that is, of mRNA vaccine of Moderna, and second for Johnson & Johnson's.
A new preprint study recently found that children are not at risk for more severe COVID-19 disease with Delta than earlier severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or SARS-CoV-2 strains.
The Delta Variant was recognized as the COVID-19 variant of concern in May this year and it has been proven difficult to control in unvaccinated populations.
Pfizer and Moderna were given authorization last month to give booster shots for those immunocompromised individuals, but the US health regulators are also now planning to approve a COVID-19 third dose for everyone given the high breakthrough cases.
Researchers in South Africa recently detected a new COVID-19 variant and according to reports, it is not just one virus but an assembly of genetically similar viruses identified as C.1.2.
In the protracted fight against the COVID-19 plus the rapidly approaching flu season, experts from Stony Brook Medicine held a live stream session to separate vaccine fact from fiction.
Claims have been posted on social media that vaccines cause COVID-19 Delta variants to spread fast and infect millions globally. However, a report presents the space-time continuum as one major flaw.
Mosquitoes have once again proven they are not just bloodsuckers, but they are killers too after a new death from the Triple E virus was reported in Georgia.
The Delta surge in the UK is seen declining despite the variant’s much faster spread compared to the other earlier strains. A report shows how vaccines are helping the drop in surge.
Research recently calculated the risk of a vaccine-resistant COVID-19 strain that's emerging under different scenarios, a modified model of the virus's transmission showed.
Medical experts are currently working hard to have a better idea of what's exactly causing long-COVID symptoms that persist for months after an infection of the virus.