Health care industry

Following CDC approval for vaccination of children aged 6 months to 5 years, 4 year-old Eleanor Kahn sits with her father Alex, as nurse Jillian Mercer administers the Moderna vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Rady…

Fatigue, brain fog, heart palpitations and breathing difficulties. Those are just some of the common symptoms of "long Covid" that can affect people in the long term after recovery from infection, according to the Centers for Disease…

3M announced Tuesday that it will spin off its health care business into a separate publicly traded company.The new business will focus on wound and oral care, healthcare IT and biopharma filtration, the material science company said in…

There are grave concerns that the U.S. and other countries are not doing enough to contain monkeypox from becoming a large scale global outbreak, according to an infectious disease epidemiologist.Over the weekend, the World Health…

In this photo illustration a silhouette of a man holding a medical syringe and a vial seen displayed in front of the Novavax logo on a screen.Cezary Kowalski | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's…

Beijing city toned down a plan to require Covid vaccinations to enter some public venues, and maintained that a negative virus test was sufficient. Pictured here is a virus testing site in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, July 5,…

Some people recently diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases may also have monkeypox, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, warning physicians that they need to watch and test for both since monkeypox can look a lot…

Dowell | Moment | Getty ImagesThe Covid-19 pandemic has abated in much of the world and, with it, many of the social restrictions implemented to curb its spread, as people have been eager to return to pre-lockdown life.But in its place…

Test tubes labelled "Monkeypox virus positive and negative" are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. Dado Ruvic | ReutersThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stepped up its monkeypox guidance, urging travelers…

The U.S. has identified 20 confirmed or suspected monkeypox cases across 11 states as public health authorities increase testing in an effort to isolate patients and prevent the virus from spreading in communities, according to the…