Health

The World Health Organization walked back a recommendation it made earlier this week saying pregnant woman should not get the Moderna coronavirus vaccine, instead saying women who are pregnant should be offered a vaccine upon consulting with a medical professional.

The U.S. government's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said Friday that he hopes children will begin to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by late spring or early summer.

Mild or moderate COVID-19 cases among pregnant women were not associated with serious complications in the study.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced stricter restrictions on travelers in response to new, likely more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus.

Amid increasing evidence of lasting neurological effects from COVID-19, the National Institutes of Health said it has launched an online database in order to track these symptoms in hopes of better understanding how the coronavirus impacts the brain and nervous system.

Coaches, student-athletes and the San Diego District Attorney say that continuing to ban these sports is having a major impact on students' scholarships, futures and mental and physical health and, without quick action, could cause irreparable harm. 

A teenager died this week from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced Friday.

With vaccinations off to a rocky start globally, experts had been counting on a one-dose vaccine that would stretch scarce supplies and avoid the logistics nightmare of getting people to return for boosters.

Johnson & Johnson says its vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 with just one shot.

Finally, some good news.

Experts warn that common over-the-counter pain relievers could interfere with the body’s immune response that triggers protection from illness caused by the novel coronavirus.

As the novel coronavirus continues to claim the lives of Americans and people across the world, multiple coronavirus variants are now circulating around the globe, triggering alarm among scientists and health officials.

The FDA has issued an “import alert” on all alcohol-based hand sanitizers from Mexico after the agency found that more than half of products sampled contained poisonous ingredients.

Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89% effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work — though not quite as well — against new mutated strains of the virus circulating in that country and South Africa.