A multi-purpose vaccine that would protect humans against any future COVID-19 variants could one day be possible, a new study suggests. The key to it all lies in a coronavirus scare that happened nearly two decades ago....

There’s been a sharp rise in opioid-related cardiac arrests in the United States and they now equal those associated with other prime causes, a new study finds. Of more than 1.4 million cardiac arrest hospitalizations nationwide between...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has had a big impact on the economy and jobs, it didn’t result in fewer Americans having health insurance. The number of 18- to 64-year-olds in the United States without health insurance held...

MONDAY, Aug. 23, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Unemployed because of the COVID-19 pandemic and with no place to live, Jeff Sari found refuge at a community organization in Seattle that offered more than just a...

Schools are reopening as the Delta variant surges across America, a scary prospect for educators and parents alike. But experts representing teachers and doctors say reopening must happen for the sake of students, and a combo of...

As the school year starts across much of the United States amid a surge in coronavirus cases fueled by the Delta variant, a new survey shows most parents support vaccines for students and staff alike. Sixty-two percent...

Conservative radio talk show host Phil Valentine, a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic and mask mandate opponent, has died at age 61 of COVID-19. “We are saddened to report that our host and friend Phil Valentine has passed away,”...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted full approval for Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine. “The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic,” Acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Janet...

A third dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine gives four times greater protection against COVID-19 infection and is five to six times more effective in preventing serious illness and hospitalization in seniors than just two doses are,...

Here are some of HealthDay’s top stories for Monday, Aug. 23: FDA could give full approval to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine on Monday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration could announce its full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus...