Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) Health News (Master Feed)

By Moira Warburton and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Democrats have reached a deal among themselves on a bill allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices for seniors, an ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - BioNTech is looking into taking legal steps against CureVac after the latter filed a patent lawsuit against it over its use of mRNA technology, BioNTech said on Wednesday, confirmin...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli Health Ministry on Wednesday gave the green light for the vaccination of children between the ages of 6 months to five years against COVID-19. The Health Ministry sai...

BEIJING (Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc's antibody cocktail for COVID-19 prevention has been cleared for use in a medical tourism zone in China's southern province of Hainan ahead of national approval, lo...

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus ordered the reintroduction of face masks to combat COVID-19 on Wednesday, just over a month after scrapping the requirement, as infections spiked again. The requirement to w...

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - A law to regulate the harvesting and trade in human organs and tissues has been introduced in Uganda's parliament, the health minister said, as authorities mov...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese capital Beijing reported three new local COVID-19 cases on Wednesday as of 3 p.m., a local health official said. All the three were already isolated for medical observation...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - China is fighting COVID-19 flare-ups on multiple fronts across the country including an emerging cluster in Shanghai, spurring mass testing drives and fresh restrictions, ...

By Johan Purnomo JAKARTA (Reuters) - An outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Indonesia threatens to disrupt a ritual of slaughtering animals to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha this year, with livest...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Macau has locked down one of the city's most famous hotels, the Grand Lisboa, after more than a dozen COVID-19 cases were found there on Tuesday, with infections spreading rapidl...