Health

Modern (NASDAQ: MRNA) You are at a crucial moment right now: for your COVID-19 vaccine candidate, your overall portfolio, and your investors. The company’s investigational vaccine for COVID-19 is entering phase 3 clinical trials this month. This is the key stage that could make or break the company’s hopes of …

The Kansas governor has asked a Republican county president to remove a cartoon from his newspaper’s Facebook page calling on the Holocaust to criticize his order that requires Kansans to wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The cartoon, posted on the Facebook page of The Anderson County …

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher David Price announced on Saturday that he is choosing not to participate in the MLB 2020 season due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Several players from across the league have tested positive as teams gather for training camp ahead of the planned 60-game season. “After much …

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Saturday that 40 hospitals in the North Texas area will soon receive shipments of the remdesivir for antiviral medications. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, remdesivir has shown promise in early trials to shorten the recovery time of hospitalized patients with COVID-19. …

A person in Florida has been infected with a rare and usually deadly brain-eating amoeba, according to health officials. The Florida Department of Health announced Friday that a patient in Hillsborough County has been infected with Naegleria fowleri, a single-celled microscopic amoeba that attacks the brain. “Infections can occur when …