The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a key advisory panel meeting on coronavirus booster shots on Sept. 17, a mere three days before the Biden administration plans to begin offering third shots for Americans. While...

Here are some of HealthDay’s top stories for Wednesday, Sept. 2: Risk of long COVID drops by half in ‘breakthrough’ cases in fully vaccinated. A British study of almost 1 million people who were fully vaccinated against...

Purdue Pharma was dissolved on Wednesday and the Sackler family will pay $4.5 billion under a bankruptcy settlement that will end thousands of lawsuits brought against the company over the United States’ opioid crisis. Purdue was the...

At least 15 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been thrown away in the United States since March 1, government data shows. That’s a far greater amount than previously known, but it is still just a small...

In a finding that should reassure Americans who have already lined up to get their coronavirus shots, a new study shows the risk of long COVID-19 is halved in fully vaccinated adults if they do get a...

Depression and multiple sclerosis (MS) tend to travel together, new research finds, and when they do the chances of dying during the next decade can be up to five times greater than it is for those with...

When people have knee arthritis, cartilage cushioning the joint progressively breaks down. Now an early study hints at a possible solution: replacing it with cartilage from the nose. Researchers tested the approach in just two patients with...

A new study of more than 19,000 San Diego health care workers finds that COVID-19 vaccination may have lost some of its power to ward off “breakthrough” infections. But that’s no reason to lose faith in the...

As doctors around the world come up against severe cases of COVID-19, some positive news has emerged: New research shows the rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib may help reduce hospitalized COVID patients’ risk of death. Current standard-of-care medications...

If you’re vaccinated against COVID-19, you may still get infected — but the odds you’ll need hospitalization are reduced by about two-thirds compared to unvaccinated people, a new study reveals. Vaccination also greatly increases the chances that...