The research may yield birth control that men could take just before sex, a new paradigm in the decades-long quest to develop better male contraceptives.
Despite being a health and science reporter, I still got lost when my son got sick as I frantically tried to get insurance approval for a drug that would help him.
The nation’s “zero covid” restrictions have created a crisis for a country with large numbers of older, vulnerable people who have never had a booster shot.
Moderna’s omicron-targeted booster shot, which became available in September, increased the levels of antibodies that block the BA.5 coronavirus subvariant.
Pfizer plans to apply for approval of its RSV vaccine by year’s end, in hopes a vaccine could be available before next year’s respiratory-illness season.
A trial in Mali showed for the first time that an antibody drug can be used to prevent malaria, a disease that kills more than half-a-million people each year.
Two new studies suggest that rebooted coronavirus booster shots that were updated to match two omicron subvariants are not superior to the old boosters.