President Biden on Wednesday came out in favor of the World Trade Organization's proposed waiver of patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines.Evan Vucci | AP Updated May 5, 2021 at 6:43 PM ET President Biden threw his support behind a World Trade Organization proposal on Wednesday to waive intellectual property protections ...

A patient breathes with the help of oxygen provided at a tent installed at a gurdwara, a place of worship for Sikhs, in Ghaziabad, India, on May 2.Sajjad Hussain | AFP via Getty Images MUMBAI, India — Sanchi Gupta was running around, trying to get her hands on an oxygen ...

Mixing different kinds of COVID-19 vaccines might help boost immune responses, but the idea has been slow to catch on.Angela Weiss | AFP via Getty Images Typically, if you get a COVID-19 vaccine that requires two doses, you should get two of the same vaccine. Two Pfizer shots, or two ...

martin-dm | Getty Images Of all the aches and pains I spend my days investigating as a family doctor, none seem to be as anxiety-provoking as a headache. And that's often true, both for patients wondering, "Could this be something dangerous?" and for clinicians trying to get to the root ...

Haiti's success is not due to some innovative intervention against the virus. Most people have given up wearing masks in public on the streets of Port-au-Prince and elsewhere. And Haiti hasn't yet administered a single COVID-19 vaccine.Valerie Baeriswyl | AFP via Getty Images Haiti has one of the lowest death ...

Sumaya Muhamed and her mother, Suad Abdulla, tout the latter's second vaccine dose at the Salahadeen Center in Nashville, Tenn. After weeks of affectionate cajoling and patient explanation, Muhamed convinced her mother to get the shot.Blake Farmer | WPLN On a sloppy spring day in mid-March, hundreds of Kurdish Americans ...

Medical workers with Delta Health Center prepare to vaccinate people in Leland, Miss., last week. In some places, rural hospital workers have been slow to get the vaccine themselves.Spencer Platt | Getty Images President Biden on Tuesday is set to announce new steps to reach rural Americans in the push ...

Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS' Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated.Seymour Wally | NY Daily News Archive via ...

Artist William Stoehr says he wants his portraits to show that addiction affects everyone, and to prompt the sort of conversations that people began having about HIV/AIDS decades ago.William Stoehr William Stoehr is a prominent artist whose sister died of an overdose. Dr. Nora Volkow is the director of the ...

The Biden administration launched Vaccines.gov on Friday to try to help people find COVID-19 vaccines near them.Selena Simmons-Duffin | NPR The Biden administration launched a website and text line on Friday to help people find COVID-19 vaccines near where they live. A national 1-800 hotline in dozens of languages will ...