Researchers and health professionals have been celebrating after the World Health Organization (WHO) approved the widespread use of the world's first malaria vaccine.
A pill to treat Covid developed by the US company Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by 89% in vulnerable adults, clinical trial results suggest.
University of Oxford scientists have uncovered a gene that doubles the risk of lung failure and death from Covid.
Double jabbed people are catching Covid and passing it on to those they live with, warn experts who have studied UK household cases.
E-cigarettes could soon be prescribed on the NHS in England to help people stop smoking tobacco products.
A health watchdog has scrapped a previous recommendation of graded exercise therapy for ME.
Covid has severely affected healthcare staff and may have killed between 80,000 and 180,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Paediatric doctors could soon find themselves on the front lines of a US government plan to get some 28 million school-aged children in line for their coronavirus jabs.
The Covid pandemic will "go on for a year longer than it needs to" because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Officials are keeping a close watch on a new descendant of the Delta variant of Covid that is causing a growing number of infections.
