MANILA – The United States government donated on Friday a total of 20,000 bottles of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention drugs or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to the...
When first-time mother Melanie approached her obstetrician-gynecologist in Ontario to request a caesarean birth plan, she found his response unsettling. “I was told I didn’t have...
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Our bodies contain a special protein tag that plays a role in...
DUMAGUETE CITY – Health authorities are now investigating reports of a number of children coming down with diarrhea, fever, and other symptoms in the municipality of Bacong...
MANILA – Russia’s Gamaleya Institute, manufacturer of the Sputnik V, is seeking to amend the vaccine’s emergency use authorization (EUA) to extend the interval between the two...
MANILA – Health authorities have detected four additional cases of the more transmissible Delta variant, first detected in India, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday....
OTTAWA – Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommends Canadians who received the first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine should get Pfizer or Moderna vaccine for...
The emergence of variants of concern in late 2020 hearkened a shift in the COVID-19 pandemic as “variants” entered the public lexicon. The acceleration of the...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved aducanumab, the first treatment that aims to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. But approval of the...
MANILA – The nation’s total number of recovered coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases has climbed to 1,253,541 after 7,637 new recoveries were reported on Wednesday. In its latest...