Health

Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY Foreign tourists vaccinated against COVID-19 with a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or World Health Organization will get the green light to... read more →

National regulatory authorities have granted emergency use authorizations for twenty-four COVID-19 vaccines. Six of those have been approved for emergency or full use by at least one WHO-recognized stringent regulatory authority (Oxford–AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, Sinopharm-BBIBP, Moderna, Sinovac,... read more →

By David Shepardson  The United States will accept the use by international visitors of COVID-19 vaccines authorized by U.S. regulators or the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control... read more →

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has issued a public safety alert over an "alarming" increase in fake prescription pills laced with the synthetic opioid fentanyl or the stimulant methamphetamine.... read more →

(Reuters) - The European Union's drug regulator on Friday identified a possible link between rare cases of venous thromboembolism with Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine and recommended the condition be... read more →

David Sugerman, MD, MPH    All measles cases in the United States originate from international travel. Your patients are at risk for measles infection if they have not been fully vaccinated.... read more →

Experts have have shed new light on a variant of COVID-19 discovered in a nursing home in Kentucky, which has infected at least 45 residents and health care staff. The... read more →

Samantha Lock   A new coronavirus strain has been declared a variant of interest by the World Health Organization (WHO) with mutations that may be resistant to vaccines. © MARVIN RECINOS/Getty... read more →

  CDC recommends that people with moderately to severely compromised immune systems receive an additional dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine at least 28 days after a second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19... read more →

(Reuters) - Among fully vaccinated people who never had COVID-19, getting a third dose of an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna would likely increase levels of antibodies, but not... read more →