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Beijing, Shanghai reimpose some bans
People wait in line for nucleic acid tests to detect COVID-19 at a testing site on June 9, 2022, in Beijing, China. China says it has generally controlled recent outbreaks in Beijing after hundreds of...
Travel industry calls on White House to end Covid-19 testing requirement for overseas visitors
Travel and hospitality CEOs are stepping up pressure on the Biden administration to scrap a requirement that anyone flying into the U.S. present a a negative Covid-19 test before departure, saying the...
FDA decision on Novavax’s Covid shots could be delayed
A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. Patrick Van Kat...
CDC raises monkeypox alert as global cases surpass 1,000
Test tubes labelled “Monkeypox virus positive and negative” are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...
Novavax faces high-stakes FDA review this week that will decide the fate of its Covid vaccine in the U.S.
In this photo illustration the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Novavax logos are seen behind a medical syringe and vials. Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Novavax’s Covid-19 vac...
U.S. has more than 36,000 Jynneos vaccine doses available in stockpile
The United States has more than 36,000 doses of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine immediately available in the strategic national stockpile, the Health and Human Services Department said Monday. The Cente...
Abbott Nutrition restarts baby formula production in reopened Michigan plant
Shelves normally meant for baby formula sit nearly empty at a store in downtown Washington, DC, on May 22, 2022. Samuel Corum | AFP | Getty Images Abbott Nutrition on Saturday resumed baby formula pro...
The CDC is sending monkeypox vaccines to people at high risk in a race to prevent the spread
Test tubes labelled “Monkeypox virus positive and negative” are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters The Biden administration has distributed 1,200 monkeypox...
U.S. monkeypox cases have more than doubled in a week to 20, CDC says
The World Health Organization has said that there is a “window” of opportunity to contain a recent monkeypox outbreak which has seen cases spread across Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Nur...
Vaccinations for children under 5 due as early as June 21
A nurse administers a pediatric dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to a girl at a L.A. Care Health Plan vaccination clinic at Los Angeles Mission College in the Sylmar neighborhood in Los Angeles, Californi...
Reckitt baby formula plants can produce 21 million bottles for U.S.
Robert Cleveland, senior vice president of nutrition for North America and Europe at Reckitt, speaks via video conference during a House Commerce Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday...
WHO says monkeypox has been spreading undetected as global cases rise to more than 550
In this photo illustration, a photo of a hand infected with the Monkeypox virus is seen through a magnifying glass. Monkeypox is a viral disease that occurs mainly in central and western Africa. Rafae...
Britain urges people with monkeypox to abstain from sex as cases rise
Test tubes labelled “Monkeypox virus positive and negative” are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters U.K. health authorities have urged anyone who tests posi...
WHO says there is a window of opportunity to limit outbreak
The World Health Organization has said that there is a “window” of opportunity to contain a recent monkeypox outbreak which has seen cases spread across Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Nur...
India needs to fill China gaps to become the “pharmacy of the world”
India has embarked on an ambitious plan to cut dependence on China for key raw materials as it seeks to become self-sufficient in its quest to be the “pharmacy of the world.” Varun Singh B...
CEPI chief outlines the disease differences
Health officer uses a thermal head to detect a monkeypox virus on arriving passengers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang near Jakarta, Indonesia on May 15, 2019. Jepayona Delita | Fu...
Monkeypox spread to more than 20 countries, but outbreaks containable, WHO says
RT: Maria Van Kerkhove, Head a.i. Emerging Diseases and Zoonosis at the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus at the United Nations in Ge...
Davos elite don’t expect a Covid-19 style health crisis from monkeypox
Business and political leaders gathered in the Swiss hilltop town of Davos in May 2022 for the World Economic Forum. Xinhua News Agency | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images As the business and politica...
House grills FDA commissioner, Abbott executive on baby formula shortage
[The stream is slated to start at 11 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] The head of the Food and Drug Administration and executives from the infant formul...
Large employers wrestle with abortion benefits question
Kim Nguyen felt a sense of pride last fall when her bosses at Alloy committed to pay travel expenses for workers in Texas if they needed to access abortion services, after the state passed new restric...
Wouldn’t worry about monkeypox, cuts drug costs for low-income
Albert Bourla, Pfizer CEO, at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on May 25th, 2022. Adam Galici | CNBC Pfizer‘s CEO said Wednesday that he “wouldn’t worry much” about a recent monke...
FTC launches investigation into infant formula shortage
A woman shops for baby formula at Target in Annapolis, Maryland, on May 16, 2022, as a nationwide shortage of baby formula continues due to supply chain crunches tied to the coronavirus pandemic that ...
CDC says monkeypox doesn’t spread easily by air: ‘This is not Covid’
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to calm public anxiety over how the monkeypox virus is transmitted, emphasizing that it doesn’t spread that easily through the air because it...
Monkeypox outbreak ‘containable,’ says WHO, as confirmed cases hit 131
Monkeypox cases are being investigated in Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia following a recent spike in infections. Jepayona Delita | Future Publishing | Getty Images The World Health Organizatio...
Another baby formula shipment from Europe to arrive in the U.S. on Wednesday
Pallets of Nestle Health Science Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior formula are unloaded from a US military aircraft at Indianapolis International Airport in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, on Sunday, May...
Abbott CEO apologizes for baby formula shortage in Washington Post
The Abbott manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, on May 13, 2022. Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty Images Abbott Laboratories CEO Robert Ford apologized Saturday in a new op-ed for his company’...
World Health Organization confirms 80 cases of monkeypox with outbreaks in 11 countries
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained ...