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Indonesia launches its first home-grown COVID-19 vaccines 13 Oct 2022 - 07:48 pm
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FDA authorizes Covid omicron boosters for kids 5 and up 12 Oct 2022 - 06:56 pm
People pose with syringe with needle in front of displayed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken, on December 11, 2021. File Photo / Reuters
Bezos family donates $710m to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center 12 Oct 2022 - 06:48 pm
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, speaks at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, US, on June 19, 2019. File Photo / Reuters
Cough syrups by India's Maiden Pharma potentially tied to deaths in Gambia - WHO 05 Oct 2022 - 06:50 pm
A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 6, 2021. File Photo / Reuters
Walmart, CVS face suits blaming common painkiller for Autism 29 Sep 2022 - 10:19 pm
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London coroner to review Instagram and Pinterest role in teen’s suicide 28 Sep 2022 - 03:07 pm
Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of the Instagram logo in this picture illustration taken on March 28, 2018. File Photo / Reuters
Alzheimer's drug study yields positive results, say makers Eisai and Biogen 28 Sep 2022 - 02:54 pm
The logo of Eisai Co Ltd is displayed at the company headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, March 8, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
'Blood on your hands' if world steps back on tackling COVID now: WHO official 23 Sep 2022 - 07:14 pm
People wait in an observation room after receiving a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine at a vaccination center in San Salvador, El Salvador, on March 22, 2022. (REUTERS/Jose Cabezas)
WHO says pandemic isn’t done after Biden called it ‘over’ in US 22 Sep 2022 - 08:52 pm
People line up to get tested for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at a nucleic acid testing site on a street, following the Covid-19 outbreak, in Shanghai, China, on September 21, 2022. (REUTERS/Aly Song)
UK patients promised same-day GP appointments in NHS shake-up 22 Sep 2022 - 04:49 pm
A National Health Service (NHS) sign is seen in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital, in front of the Houses of Parliament, in London on June 7, 2011. File Photo / Reuters
Brazil, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Peru at very high risk for polio, says PAHO 21 Sep 2022 - 10:55 pm
Director of the Pan American Health Organization Carissa Etienne speaks to the media in Montevideo on February 3, 2016. File Photo / Reuters
France clears Omicron-adapted COVID boosters for autumn vaccination drive 20 Sep 2022 - 06:57 pm
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New York City ending vaccine mandate for private employers on Nov. 1 20 Sep 2022 - 06:12 pm
The north view of the Manhattan skyline is seen from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan, as the iconic tower prepares to open to more tenants and visitors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, New York, on June 24, 2020. File Photo / Reuters
Bluebird’s gene therapy for brain disease receives accelerated approval 17 Sep 2022 - 04:09 pm
Signage is seen outside of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, US, on August 29, 2020.  File Photo / Reuters
WHO: COVID end 'in sight,' deaths at lowest since March 2020 14 Sep 2022 - 07:58 pm
A pandemic prevention worker sits in a nucleic acid testing booth following a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in Beijing, China, September 13, 2022. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter)
'Challenge' to maintain world's focus on global health after COVID-19: Bill Gates 13 Sep 2022 - 10:11 am
Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends a news conference at the World Economic Forum 2022 (WEF) in the Alpine resort of Davos, Switzerland May 25, 2022. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
In a nod to JFK, Biden pushing 'moonshot' to fight cancer 12 Sep 2022 - 05:19 pm
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a a 'Help is Here' tour event to tout the 1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act law on the 11th anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) legislation being signed into law, as he visits the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Columbus, Ohio, US, on March 23, 2021. File Photo / Reuters
Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus 07 Sep 2022 - 11:08 pm
New York Governor Kathy Hochul during a press conference to provide an update on the coronavirus disease in New York, US, September 7, 2022. (REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado)