Category: Washington Post

A proposal to waive drugmakers’ patents to enable developing countries to make generic vaccines wins some backers in the Biden administration.

In 42 states and D.C., lower caseloads have been reported the past two weeks, and nationally, cases are at their lowest since October.

A menthol ban has long been sought by civil rights and anti-tobacco groups, who say the products have disproportionately harmed Black communities

One-and-done convenience of the company’s product seems to outweigh concerns over its link to a rare blood-clotting condition.

The CDC’s real-world findings provide reassurance about the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in the highest-risk age group.

One million testing kits, 40,000 families and an ambitious bid to stop community transmission.

The action has been urgently sought by tobacco opponents and civil rights groups who say African Americans have been disproportionately hurt by the industry’s aggressive targeting of Black communities.

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New guidelines waive training for doctors to prescribe buprenorphine and allow more health-care workers to give prescriptions.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology argued that not all indoor settings are the same, varying by size, ventilation, air filtration, occupancy and the nature of the activity.