Breakthrough For Tuberculosis—One Of The World’s Biggest Killers—As New Vaccine Shows Promise In Early Trials

Topline Researchers on Monday announced promising results for a tuberculosis vaccine that can be freeze-dried and safely stored at higher temperatures for months, hailing a major breakthrough in the f...

Novavax Stock Plunges 25% As Vaccine Maker Has ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Staying In Business

Topline Shares of Novavax fell more than 25% in after-hours trading Tuesday, following a dismal fourth quarter earnings report and a warning from the Covid vaccine maker that uncertainty over future f...

Novavax stock shedding a quarter of its value as vaccine maker’s business in ‘substantial doubt’

Novavax Inc. shares shares sank in the extended session Tuesday after the biotech drug maker posted more than double the loss that analysts expected, and reorganized with concerns it may not be in bus...

Healthcare Investments Are Slowing Down

The global economy is currently at a turbulent intersection, one that even the most celebrated economic pundits and fiscal savants cannot seem to accurately navigate. While some say that the economy i...

The CDC Wants To Modernize Its Healthcare Data Infrastructure

Public health policy initiatives and community health outcomes have never been more important. On a global scale, this is generally managed by the World Health Organization, an agency empowered by the...

Woody Harrelson Spouts Covid Vaccine Conspiracy In ‘SNL’ Monologue

Topline Actor Woody Harrelson spread a conspiracy theory about Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers during his monologue when hosting Saturday Night Live this week, adding to previous eyebrow-raising commen...

Apple Hardware Will Change The Face of Consumer Healthcare

Undoubtedly, Apple has made its mark on the world. More than 2.2 billion iPhones have been sold to date, upending the entire smartphone market. The company not only created a world-class hardware and ...

Moderna Stock Jumps On An FDA Boon For Its Cancer Vaccine

Moderna (MRNA) stock jumped late Wednesday after the Food and Drug Administration granted its Merck (MRK)-partnered cancer vaccine a breakthrough designation. X The companies are testing the personali...

Deadlier Mpox Infections Discovered In People With Advanced HIV

Topline Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, can produce a more severe and more deadly form of disease in people living with advanced HIV infections, researchers wrote in the Lancet medical journal on T...

Moderna CEO Bancel will testify before Senate on Covid vaccine price hike

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel will testify before the Senate health committee in March over the company’s plans to hike the price of its Covid-19 vaccine. Sen. Bernie Sanders, chair of the health ...

Pfizer CEO: Covid Infections Will Rise. So Will Paxlovid and Vaccine Sales.

Pfizer executives say Wall Street analysts haven’t understood just how powerful a hit the company’s Covid-19 products will take this year. That’s the explanation the company’s chief financial officer,...

Pfizer Facing Profit Drop After Record Year as COVID Vaccine Demand Fades

Drugmaker Pfizer (PFE) will see out the most lucrative year in its history with fourth-quarter results due early Tuesday and hope its 2023 guidance isn’t too much of a letdown amid diminished de...

NVAX Stock Outperforms Vaccine Stock Rivals On Pledge To Update Covid Vaccine

Novavax (NVAX) plans to update its Covid shot for new variants, and NVAX stock outperformed its vaccine rivals on Friday. X The decision follows an advisory committee meeting at the Food and Drug Admi...

How A ‘Thanks Pfizer’ Covid Misinformation Meme Went Viral

Topline False claims that Covid-19 vaccines cause spasms have gone viral on social media, with many users — even language education company Duolingo — making an even more viral joke out of the misinfo...

FDA says most people probably need only one annual vaccine shot

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has laid out a road map for what Covid-19 vaccination may look like moving forward. In a briefing document published Monday, the FDA sai...

mRNA Covid Shots Safe And Effective In Children Ages 5-11, Large Study Finds—Though Vaccine Uptake Remains Low

Topline mRNA Covid vaccines, such as Pfizer and Moderna shots, are effective at preventing infection and severe illness and have low rates of serious side effects in young children, according to a stu...

David Crosby Dies At 81, Covid-19 Rumors Abound

On January 19, it was announced that David Crosby, pictured here with his wife Jan Dance, died after … [+] a “long illness.” (Photo by David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) Patrick McM...

Moderna says RSV vaccine is 84% effective at preventing disease in older adults

Moderna on Tuesday said its vaccine targeting respiratory syncytial virus is effective at preventing disease in older adults. The vaccine was 83.7% effective at preventing lower respiratory tract dise...

China should set aside political issues on vaccine imports, CEO says

China needs to move past political considerations and look at importing Covid-19 jabs to end the pandemic globally, according to the chief executive of the world’s latest vaccine manufacturer. &...

Free Shingles Vaccine, Negotiable Prescription Prices & Other Medicare Changes in 2023

SmartAsset: Six Big Medicare Changes in 2023 The year 2023 brings changes to the rules, limits and options on all kinds of federal programs and Medicare is no exception. Roughly 65 million senior citi...

No Evidence Of More Athletes Having Died Suddenly, Despite Covid-19 Vaccine Claims

FOX News host Tucker Carlson (C), seen here flanked by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) on … [+] his right and former U.S., President Donald Trump on his left, has claimed on his show, “S...

‘Shot In The Arm’ Shows How Disinformation Can Be Deadly

A doctor examines a child’s leg, weakened by polio. Nearly eradicated by global vaccination, … [+] poliomyelitis cases are on the rise due to a decline in vaccination rates. Bettmann Archi...

Jeff Beck Dies Suddenly Of Bacterial Meningitis, Despite Anti-Covid-19 Vaccine Claims

Jeff Beck, seen here at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2022, was 78. (Photo by Lionel FLUSIN/Gamma-Rapho … [+] via Getty Images) Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck has died a...

Bernie Sanders urges Moderna not to hike vaccine price

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged Moderna not to quadruple the price of its Covid-19 vaccine once distribution of the shots moves to the commercial market. In a letter to Moderna CEO Stephane Bance...

Cancer Vaccine Trials—Using Same mRNA Tech Behind Covid Shots—Could Launch In U.K. This September

Topline Trials of cutting-edge cancer vaccines could kick off in the U.K. as soon as September, German Covid vaccine maker BioNTech announced on Friday, part of a new government partnership to fast tr...

BioNTech says it will start cancer vaccine trials in the UK from September

A NHS vaccinator administers the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 booster jab to a woman, at a vaccination centre in London. BioNTech is launching a large-scale trial of mRNA therapies to treat cancer and oth...

Djokovic Will Likely Miss Indian Wells And Miami Open Due To U.S. Covid Vaccine Mandate

Topline Tennis star Novak Djokovic is likely to miss the Indian Wells and Miami Open tournaments for the second year in a row as the 21-time Grand Slam winner, who has refused to get a Covid-19 vaccin...

Anti-Vaxxers Exploit Damar Hamlin’s Crisis With Unfounded Covid-19 Vaccine Claims

Joe Burrow #9 of the Cincinnati Bengals, Jordan Poyer #21 of the Buffalo Bills, and other players on … [+] the field watched in stunned silence as a medical team administered cardio-pulmonary re...

These Are Some of 2022’s Most Important Healthcare Headlines

2022 was certainly an unforgettable year, full of fresh innovation, inspiration, and ideas. For many, this year marked an ease of Covid-19 restrictions, leading to more social interaction and involvem...

The Mayo Clinic Is Partnering With An Augmented Reality Company To Transform Healthcare Delivery

The Mayo Clinic is one of the world’s most celebrated and renowned medical institutions, and is home to among the most brilliant minds in medicine, cutting-edge healthcare research, and continued inno...

BioNTech MRNA Vaccine Approved In Hong Kong, Week In Review

Week in Review Asian equities started the week lower as the Bank of Japan unexpectedly raised its yield ceiling on government bonds, but gained some ground later in the week as Hong Kong outperformed....

China ADRs To Climb The Great Wall Of Worry As PCAOB Resets HFCAA Clock, Week In Review

China Last Night KraneShares Week in Review Asian equity markets had a mixed performance week as the PCAOB announced breaking news, Pfizer’s COVID treatment was approved, and The Central Economi...