The four-dose vaccine, advanced by landmark COVID-19 prevention efforts, is an achievement that scientists have been painstakingly working toward for decades.

Early lab studies show that a COVID-19 antibody treatment developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology could be effective against the Omicron variant.

South Africa’s COVID-19 cases almost doubled within 24 hours, jumping from a reported 4,300 new cases on Tuesday to 8,500 new daily cases on Wednesday.

Los Angeles Lakers star forward LeBron James was placed on the NBA’s health and safety protocols list for COVID-19 and will likely miss several games, according to ESPN.

Promising to take “aggressive action” to end HIV in the U.S., President Joe Biden on Worlds Aids Day on Wednesday announced a 3-year roadmap to help reduce new HIV transmissions in the U.S. by 90% by 2030. And he did so by being the first U.S. president to link systemic racism and other discrimination directly to the prolonged HIV epidemic.

The man, from Hennepin County, MN., fell ill on Nov. 22 after attending the Anime NYC 2021 conference at the Javits Center in New York City a few days before.

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A coalition of labor unions says that Amazon vastly misrepresented the number of its employees who contracted COVID-19 on the job.

A new study warns that vaping triggers the same gene regulation changes that smoking does, so it may raise the risk of cancer and other serious diseases.

While both vaccines were highly effective in preventing infection, hospitalization and death, data reveals one delivers better results.

But will widespread newborn screening give parents more qualms than comfort? Researchers investigating this question have some early answers.

President Joe Biden's plan for fighting COVID-19 this winter involves efforts to boost testing and vaccinations and a federal government keeping a wary eye on Omicron.

Researchers find that vaping may more than double the risk for erectile dysfunction.

Patients who survive a severe case of COVID-19 are more than twice as likely to die during the following year than those who have mild symptoms and those who haven’t been infected, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Medicine.

The justices heard from lawyers arguing for and against a 2018 Mississippi law that, with few exceptions, bans abortion after 15 weeks, claiming that a fetus is viable outside the womb at that age.

A South African doctor treating patients who tested positive for the Omicron variant said Tuesday that vaccinated people don’t appear to have complications so far.

The majority of Americans are willing to do video visits with their doctors for non-emergency care but prefer in-person visits, according to a new study in JAMA Network Open.

Officials say new infections have declined among white gay and bisexual men over the past decade, but Black and Hispanic counterparts did not see that advance.

The CDC says it plans to tighten COVID-19 rules for travelers to the U.S. by requiring them to provide a negative test within 24 hours of departure.

A large study shows that chances of becoming infected with the coronavirus in the first 2 months after the Pfizer booster drop an estimated 86% compared with those who have only the two primary shots.

The centers provide people a place to bring their drugs and use them under the supervision of trained staff members who will provide clean needles, prevent overdoses and offer connections to addiction services.

The federal government has increased surveillance at four international airports in the United States to detect cases of the Omicron variant that might be brought into the country by international travelers.

A Texas man accused of using federal COVID relief funds on a Lamborghini and visits to strip clubs was sentenced Monday to more than nine years in prison.

An antiviral pill from Merck may help some high-risk patients survive a COVID-19 infection or help them stay out of the hospital, even though the risks of taking the drug aren’t yet fully known.

Fauci, speaking at a White House COVID-19 briefing, said there’s a “very unusual constellation of changes” across the COVID-19 genome that indicates it is unlike any variant we have seen so far.