Pfizer's experimental coronavirus vaccine had already shown promise in an early analysis. An application for emergency authorization will be submitted “within days,” the company said.
The fast-growing pool of infected people — including large numbers who don’t know they’re contagious — pose daunting challenges to officials in hard-hit communities trying to arrest the surge in cases.
We are tracking 200 experimental vaccines aimed at ending the pandemic, a scientific quest moving at record-breaking speed.
An unprecedented scientific, medical and industrial relay race is about to get underway. It depends on scientists, planes and some very cold freezers.
As the two coronavirus vaccines near federal clearance, we answer your questions –– from when you should get vaccinated, to how they work and how they were made so quickly.
Federal officials have been urging state and local health departments to heed those lessons, even as they warn that the immunization program ahead will be far more complex.
They are giving millions more injections than they have in past years, filling a gap from covid-19 wary consumers who are avoiding the doctor’s office.
Researchers analyzed nearly 12,000 visits by adult patients to emergency departments at five New York City hospitals.
Treatment with unfractionated heparin was tied to more kidney injuries, heart injuries, life-threatening blood infections and anemia, an analysis says.
As a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations ravage the Upper Midwest, health-care workers deal with severely ill patients who remain skeptical about the existence of the virus.
The announcement puts the United States on track to have two strikingly effective coronavirus vaccines available in coming weeks.
There is no shortage of nurses nationally. But in places where one exists, the pandemic is pushing hospitals to the breaking point.
Doctors and medical centers focus greater attention on genetic, cultural and lifestyle influences for this health issue.
- Perspective
As immunologists struggle to understand the immune response, psychologists want to know how infected people will think and behave after they recover.
The disease is so lethal because it is seldom diagnosed and treated in an early stage, experts say.
Mental health professionals say such face-to-face talks can be a lifeline for patients with grief, depression, other issues. But such sessions could lack privacy, have other pitfalls.
Between 2015 and 2018, about 75 percent of kids and adolescents ate fruit on a given day, according to the data. More than 90 percent ate vegetables.
Governors and mayors are weighing whether to reinstate lockdowns amid anger and economic devastation.
The behind-doors transmission reflects pandemic fatigue and widening social bubbles, experts say — and is particularly insidious because it is so difficult to police and likely to increase as temperatures drop.
Health experts sound alarms as the coronavirus rolls across the U.S. largely unchecked.
