Pharmaceuticals & Medical Research

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Use of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid spiked this week, but some doctors are reconsidering...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries have agreed to an initial U.S.-led push to reform of the rules around...

By Emma Farge and Jennifer Rigby GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of health ministers and diplomats from around the world meet...

By Michael Erman (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc will make all of its patented medicines including COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid and big-selling...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oxfam America, Partners in Health and other civil society groups urged U.S. President Joe...

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Tuesday there were no new deaths among fever patients in the...

By Michael Erman (Reuters) -Drugmakers Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Monday that three doses of their COVID-19 vaccine...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said it expects to identify more cases of monkeypox as...

By Jennifer Rigby and Emma Farge LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Saturday reported its first confirmed case of monkeypox, which officials expected would be contained. The...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A substance found in fruits and vegetables can neutralize the venom of a poisonous pit viper...

By SungHyuk An and Heejung Jung SEOUL (Reuters) - Standing tall in bright red hazmat suits, five North Korean health...

By Josh Smith and Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) -Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered North Korea's military to stabilise distribution...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Suzhou Abogen Biosciences Co said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate using the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -World Health Organization members reached a preliminary agreement this week to gradually raise their mandatory...

TOKYO (Reuters) - An experimental treatment from Shionogi & Co Ltd has shown rapid clearance of the virus that causes...

(Reuters) - COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States for the second year in a...

BEIJING (Reuters) -COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by a Sinopharm subsidiary and Sinovac Biotech to target the Omicron variant were approved...

By Mrinalika Roy (Reuters) -A third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech produced significant protection against...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration is closely monitoring a coronavirus lockdown in Shanghai that could cause delays to air...