Moderna said its vaccine update is effective again a highly mutated strain. File Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI | License Photo Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Moderna announced on Wednesday that its updated COVID-19 vaccine currently pending approval by the Food and Drug Administration is effective against the new hig»»»

The US government said on Tuesday (Aug 22) it had awarded US$1.4 billion for the development of new therapies and vaccines against COVID-19, including a US$326 million contract with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for a next-generation antibody therapy for prevention of infections. The funding to Regener»»»

Eleven lakh doses of bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, a new type of vaccine that provides protection against both the Delta and Omicron variants of COVID-19, have been brought to the country, while another 20 lakh will arrive 'in a short period of time', Health Minister Zahid Maleque said Tuesday. They w»»»

SciCheck Digest In response to a civil suit, lawyers for the Food and Drug Administration described the agency’s warnings about the unapproved use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 as “recommendations.” Although that description doesn’t reveal new information, some conservative outlets have falsely c»»»

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The FDA authorized the bivalent booster for adults in late August without human data. The only available information at the time was from a small study performed on mice. Yet, it was approved, nonetheless. Within a few days of the FDA okaying the bivalent»»»

SK Bioscience has renewed a contract manufacturing organization deal with US biotech Novavax to produce COVID-19 vaccines targeted at preventing the spread of highly contagious variants such as BA.5, officials said Tuesday. The two firms had signed a CMO deal to produce Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine l»»»

US biotech company Moderna on Wednesday announced positive results for a new vaccine that targets both the original Covid strain and Omicron, and sees the shot as its "lead candidate" for a booster this fall. The so-called "bivalent" vaccine was tested in a trial of 814 adults and shown to produce »»»

Overall, children and adolescents showed some loss of antibody cross-neutralisation against all five variants, but the loss was most pronounced for Omicron, the researchers said. Children who previously had COVID-19 or the inflammatory condition MIS-C are not protected against the Omicron variant o»»»

Current COVID-19 vaccines are not well-matched against the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday, as its panel of outside experts meets to discuss changes to future booster doses. The FDA, however, said booster shots protect against serious outcomes of»»»

The request comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Level-3 travel health notice for India, indicating a high level of virus prevailing. The United States has asked its citizens to reconsider their travel to India due to the increased spread of the coronavirus dise»»»

Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has sparred repeatedly with federal officials and Democratic local government figures over pandemic mitigation practices, including mask mandates, vaccines, and now an antibody therapy treatment. On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) withdra»»»

Greece has received 5,700 treatments of molnupiravir for Covid-19, while another 25,000 are on their way, Alternate Health Minister Mina Gaga told state-run news agency AMNA on Saturday. The next doses await the approval of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) which is expected next month, she said.»»»

Merck expects COVID-19 pill molnupiravir to be effective against Omicron Merck's COVID-19 oral pill molnupiravir has a mechanism of action that can work against Omicron and any other variant, a company executive said on Monday. "We're very confident that it will effect Omicron ... This mechanism in»»»

Canadians will receive 140m rapid tests for free throughout January, Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday, as the country struggles to cope with record-breaking Covid case numbers. “With the speed at which Omicron is propagating through our communities and through our country, it makes sense to ha»»»

In the midst of this huge rise in injuries Corona in a United StateThe US President published Of the bygonesOn Monday, he tweeted a series of tweets urging vaccinations, including the booster dose. وصف US President The issue of taking anti-Corona vaccines is a “national duty”, while a number of Ame»»»

Rapid Covid home tests are more likely to give a false negative with the heavily-mutated Omicron variant compared to earlier strains, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday. The news comes as the country is facing a massive surge in cases that experts say is being under-captured as »»»

First known Omicron case in United States identified on December 1 in fully vaccinated person who had travelled to South Africa The Omicron variant was estimated to be 58.6% of the coronavirus variants circulating in the United States as of December 25, according to data from the US Centers for Dis»»»

India gave emergency use authorisation (EUA) for Merck's COVID-19 pill molnupiravir, and Serum Institute of India's Covovax and Biological E's Corbevax coronavirus vaccines, the country's health minister said on Twitter. Molnupiravir will be manufactured in India by 13 companies for restricted use »»»

India gave emergency use authorisation (EUA) for Merck's COVID-19 pill molnupiravir, and Serum Institute of India's Covovax and Biological E's Corbevax coronavirus vaccines, the country's health minister said on Twitter. Molnupiravir will be manufactured in India by 13 companies for restricted use »»»

BENGALURU - India gave emergency use authorisation (EUA) for Merck's COVID-19 pill molnupiravir, and Serum Institute of India's Covovax and Biological E's Corbevax coronavirus vaccines, the country's health minister said on Twitter. Molnupiravir will be manufactured in India by 13 companies for res»»»

Presidential Adviser for Health Affairs Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din announced on Wednesday that Egypt may locally manufacture COVID-19 treatment pills developed by giant pharmaceutical company Merck in a matter of 45 days. “Egypt has agreed with a company to start clinical trials for the drug and if it»»»