Health

Johnson & Johnson plans to pay an additional $1.1 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that baby powder and other talc-based products

BioAge Labs, a startup specialising in obesity therapies that has also partnered with Eli Lilly on Tuesday filed for an initial public offering in the

An intermittent shortage of the diabetes drug Ozempic in the European Union, which is expected to persist into the last quarter of 2024 due to

The Democratic Republic of Congo expects to receive the first batch of mpox vaccine on Thursday and a second batch on Saturday, the head of

South Korea’s Health Ministry said it was deploying military doctors to help in some hospital emergency rooms because of a shortage of medical staff, but

Dozens of fever patients lie on mattresses on the floor of a makeshift mpox isolation ward in eastern DR Congo, the epicentre of the mpox

Women’s heart disease risks and the need to start taking preventive medication should be assessed when they are in their 30s, not after the onset

The United Nations, working with Palestinian health authorities, began vaccinating 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip against polio, and Israel and Hamas agreed to a

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted emergency approval for an updated version of the Novavax COVID vaccine. The updated vaccine is authorised

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched an urgent tender to procure mpox vaccine for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi Vaccine Alliance,