The eight-day Jewish festival, Hanukkah, kicked off on December 10. Kwanzaa, an African celebration, will commence as usual on December 26 through January 1. For Hanukkah, some cities hosted safe para...

Pharmacists across the US got a happy surprise when they opened up newly delivered coronavirus vaccine vials and discovered that some held more than their labels indicated. Word that the vaccine supp...

Singapore became on Monday the first Asian country to approve PfizerBioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine and said it expects to start receiving shots by the end of the year. Prime Minister Lee Hsien ...

The first shipments of Pfizer Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine left a factory in Michigan early on Sunday on a convoy of semi trucks, kicking off a historic effort to stop a surging pandemic that is claim...

Two years ago, Sanjay Singh, a biochemist and chief executive officer of a Pune-based biotechnology company producing drugs for cancers and strokes, turned his attention to a new “platform&rdquo...

The new Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna seem to be remarkably good at preventing serious illness. But it’s unclear how well they will curb the spread of the coronavirus. That’s ...

Canada has approved Pfizer’s vaccine, its drug regulator, Health Canada, said on Wednesday, opening the possibility that Canadians will start receiving it next week. It said that it completed a ...

The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said three Covid-19 vaccine candidates, including those developed by Bharat Biotech, Serum Institute of India and Pfizer, are under the active consideration of Ind...

A 90-year-old woman from Northern Ireland became the first person in the world on Tuesday when she received the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, marking the beginning of the United Kingdom’s ma...

Pfizer India has become the first pharmaceutical firm to seek from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) an emergency use authorisation for its COVID-19 vaccine in the country, after its parent...