CDC Approves Booster Shots for Some Pfizer Vaccine Recipients
The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has approved Pfizer vaccine booster shots for some ...
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Simple Australian First-Aid Technique Could Save Shark Bite Survivors
An Australian researcher has developed a new first-aid technique that could save shark attack victims from a fatal loss of blood ...
Mask Mandate Prompts Cheers, Jeers in Charlotte, North Carolina
The fluctuating severity of the pandemic and ever-changing public health pronouncements have left North Carolina with a patchwork ...
Displaced Children in Northeast Syria May Never Recover, Observers Fear
Nearly 2½ years after the fall of the Islamic State terror group’s self-declared caliphate, there still appears to be no ...
All-Civilian Space Crew Returns Home
The all-amateur crew of the SpaceX Dragon capsule makes it home, but not before a string of first time-ever events. Plus, ...
Lava, Smoke, Ash Cover La Palma as Volcano Threatens Banana Crop
Jets of red hot lava shot into the sky on Spain’s La Palma on Thursday as a huge cloud of toxic ash drifted from the Cumbre ...
Mandates Give Rise to Booming Black Market for Fake Vaccine Cards
As more businesses, universities, and federal and local governments demand proof of inoculation against COVID-19, the black ...
Thailand Ramps Up COVID Vaccination, Plans to Reopen Key Tourist Regions
Thailand’s COVID vaccination rate currently stands at less than 25% of the population as the government says it is ramping up ...
Florida Changes Quarantine Guidelines for Students Exposed to COVID-19
The southeastern U.S. state of Florida says parents or legal guardians can decide whether or not to quarantine their children if ...
Pfizer Says Kids 5-11 Can Be Vaccinated Against COVID
This week, Pfizer released promising news in the effort to end the coronavirus pandemic, saying its COVID-19 vaccine works for ...
US Donates an Additional 500 Million Doses of Pfizer Vaccine
U.S. President Joe Biden convened a virtual COVID-19 summit Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, ...
Researchers Detect Malaria Resistant to Key Drug in Africa
Scientists have found evidence of a resistant form of malaria in Uganda, a worrying sign that the top drug used against the ...
Arctic Sea Ice Shrank Less in 2021, Scientists Say
Scientists with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in the U.S. state of Colorado said Wednesday that, as summer was ...
WHO: Reducing Air Pollution Could Save Millions of Lives
The World Health Organization is issuing new guidelines on improving global air quality, which it says could save many of the ...
Amnesty Report : Drugmakers Far Short of Offering COVID-19 Vaccines to Poorer Nations
Amnesty International is accusing the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies of creating an “unprecedented human rights ...
US, China Unveil Separate Big Steps to Fight Climate Change
The two biggest economies and largest carbon polluters in the world announced separate financial attacks on climate change ...
WHO: Delta Now Dominant COVID Variant Globally
The delta variant of the coronavirus has overtaken all other variants of concern, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. ...
McDonald’s to Phase Out Plastic Toys from Happy Meals
Fast-food giant McDonald’s said Tuesday it would phase out plastic toys from its signature Happy Meals by 2025. ...
Johnson & Johnson Says Its COVID Booster Shot Improves Protection
U.S.-based pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday new “real world” and phase 3 study data show a second ...
Melbourne Protesters Rally Against Coronavirus Restrictions
Hundreds of people demonstrated Tuesday in Australia’s second-largest city to protest coronavirus restrictions the government ...
Journalists in Europe, US Face Harassment over Pandemic Coverage
When Italian reporter Francesco Giovannetti told protesters that he was covering them for the left-leaning daily La Repubblica, ...
UN Chief: Climate Targets Not on Track
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern Monday that the world is not on track to meet several urgent targets in ...
Pfizer-BioNTech Say Their COVID Vaccine Safe, Effective for 5- to-11-Year-Olds
The Pfizer and BioNTech drug companies said Monday that lower dose shots of their two-dose COVID-19 vaccine are safe and ...
Australia Warned Dementia Cases Will Double Within 40 Years
Within 40 years, more than 800,000 Australians — twice as many as now — will be living with dementia, unless a cure is ...