In March, a COVID-19 vaccine was tested in 45 healthy adults in Phase 1 tests administered by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. On Tuesday night, all study participants were reported to reflect a response from boosting the immune system, allowing entities testing the vaccine to start testing …

Image copyright fake pictures Matt Hancock has said there are no plans to make facial coatings mandatory for office workers in England. The health secretary told BBC Breakfast that people who work in offices would not need to cover themselves, despite a newspaper report suggesting they would. “It’s something we’ve …

President Trump called the Los Angeles schools’ decision not to reopen campuses next month a “mistake” during a CBS News interview on Tuesday. Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Austin Beutner announced Monday that the nation’s second largest school system will continue online learning until further notice due to the …

A squirrel has tested positive for the bubonic plague in the city of Morrison, Colorado, Jefferson County public health officials announced in a statement over the weekend. The squirrel, discovered Saturday, is the first plague case in Jefferson County, according to the statement. A spokesperson for Jefferson County Public Health …

Last week, FDA staff raised concerns about eye-related side effects that may come with GlaxoSmithKline’s BCMA cancer treatment. Despite questions about whether those problems, which include loss of vision, so severe patients stopped reading or driving, could be effectively identified and managed, the drug came out of an advisory committee …