Health

The World Health Organisation recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life-threatening disease transmitted to humans by some mosquitoes.

British drugmaker AstraZeneca said Tuesday it will pay $425 million to settle product liability litigation against the prescription-only acid reflux drug Nexium and heartburn drug

Sanofi announced that it had reached an agreement with Janssen to develop and commercialise a vaccine candidate against extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli. Under the terms

The US government’s Medicare health insurance programme may begin negotiating prices for some prescription drugs this autumn under a new programme, reaffirming one of President

France began vaccinating ducks against bird flu to try to curb the virus that has killed millions of birds worldwide, a move that prompted the

The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to approve an Eli Lilly drug to treat a type of skin disease because of certain findings

Idaho can fully enforce its near-total ban on abortion after a US appeals court lifted a lower court order that had partially blocked it. A

About 1.8 million Americans received the COVID-19 vaccine in the week ending 22 September, according to data compiled by health data and analytics firm IQVIA

Global health aid agency Unitaid has written to Johnson & Johnson CEO Joaquin Duato, urging him to take “immediate action” to expand access to the

South Africa’s RCL Foods said on Thursday its Rainbow poultry division had slaughtered 410,000 chickens due to the country’s worst-ever bird flu outbreak, fuelling fears