Researchers and health professionals have been celebrating after the World Health Organization (WHO) approved the widespread use of the world's first malaria vaccine.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreUniversity of Oxford scientists have uncovered a gene that doubles the risk of lung failure and death from Covid.
Read MoreDouble jabbed people are catching Covid and passing it on to those they live with, warn experts who have studied UK household cases.
Read MoreE-cigarettes could soon be prescribed on the NHS in England to help people stop smoking tobacco products.
Read MoreA health watchdog has scrapped a previous recommendation of graded exercise therapy for ME.
Read MoreCovid has severely affected healthcare staff and may have killed between 80,000 and 180,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Read MorePaediatric 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreOfficials are keeping a close watch on a new descendant of the Delta variant of Covid that is causing a growing number of infections.
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