(Reuters) – EU authorities say there is no conclusive evidence of a cancer risk from synthetic face masks and have urged people to keep wearing them after a Belgian study warned last month they may...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore could see as many 2,000 COVID-19 deaths annually over time, mainly among the elderly, but it was focused on avoiding excess mortality, a minister said on Monday, as...
(Reuters) – Europe’s drug regulator said on Thursday it had started a real-time review of AstraZeneca’s antibody-based COVID-19 therapy, the first protective shot other than vaccines...
LONDON (Reuters) – The prevalence of COVID-19 infections in England increased in the week ending Sept 25, Britain’s Office for National Statistics said on Friday, led by an increase in infections...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and his aides have concluded something in recent weeks: The Mr. Nice Guy approach isn’t working.
By introducing vast new vaccine mandates he once...
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian authorities on Wednesday extended the COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne for another three weeks, as they shift their focus to rapid vaccination drives and move away from...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The BinaxNOW rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection assay from Abbott does “not seem particularly useful” in symptomatic children and young adults aged 7 to 20...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the U.S. and people hunkered down in their homes to live and work, some people turned to a variety of legal and illegal drugs for...
JAKARTA (Reuters) – In the teeming, impoverished North Jakarta neighbourhood of Muara Baru, people have made a grim joke out of the acronym for the Indonesian government’s lockdown to combat...
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s health care system is collapsing due to the coronavirus, with intensive care departments full and doctors overburdened by a rapid outbreak of cases and deaths, the...