A physiologist studies the human body and how the organs and systems coordinate together under normal and abnormal conditions at both cellular and molecular levels...

The European Medicines Agency has given its authorization for the use of vaccines against the omicron variant of COVID-19 to both Moderna and BioNTech-Pfizer. The EU's drug regulator, the Europea...

A strike by Scottish refuse workers over pay is spreading to more cities, with garbage from unattended bins overflowing onto Edinburgh’shigh streets, raising a stink during the city’s inte...

Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech, accusing its main competitors of copying Moderna's technology in order to make their own vaccine, according to med...

Britain on Monday became the first country to authorise a coronavirus vaccine that targets two variants, the original virus and Omicron, the variant that became dominant over the winter. Half of each ...

It’s a moment many parents have anxiously awaited for months: Children younger than five years are now eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus, among the last Americans to qualify. Wit...

In the middle of last year, the World Health Organisation began promoting an ambitious goal, one it said was essential for ending the pandemic: fully vaccinate 70 per cent of the population in every c...

As people across the world grapple with the prospect of living with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, one question looms large: how soon before they need yet another shot? Not for many mont...

Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines aren’t just preventing infections with the contagious Omicron variant —  they’re also keeping infected Americans from e...

A booster shot of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine significantly raises the level of antibodies that can thwart the omicron variant, the company announced on Monday. The news arrives as omicron rapidl...