Health

Some New England hospitals are delaying or rescheduling surgeries because of a shortage of blood donations during the pandemic.

Rules designed to protect the nation’s most vulnerable from COVID-19 are still being enforced despite widespread vaccination of residents, and plummeting infections and deaths.

President Joe Biden is set to deliver remarks on the country’s vaccination program as his goal to have 70% of Americans at least partially vaccinated by July 4 nears.

A plane with 2.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Taiwan from the U.S. in a donation with both public health and geopolitical meaning.

California on Friday started offering residents a digital record of their coronavirus vaccinations that they can use to access businesses or events that require proof they got the shots.

Sperm count and quality did not drop in healthy men after receiving doses of the Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, according to a new study published Thursday.

PORTO, Portugal (AP) — European Union leaders said Friday that the most pressing impediments to COVID-19 vaccine supplies are not intellectual property rights but export bans and production capacity issues that need to be addressed before patent waivers should be considered. In the wake of the United States backing calls to waive patents on vaccine […]

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Trade Organization said Friday the U.S. administration’s call to remove patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines could help expand fair access to vaccines but might not be the most “critical issue,” as officials in Europe increasingly insisted that more vaccine exports are the more pressing priority. WTO Director-General […]

LONDON (AP) — Fire broke out Friday in a London apartment tower which has cladding similar to that used on another housing block in the city where 72 people died in a 2017 blaze. London Fire Brigade said about 125 firefighters tackled a fire that spread to three floors of a 19-story building in the […]