Kena Betancur | Corbis News | Getty Images Pfizer had a “phenomenal” first quarter — and Wall Street took notice, CEO Albert Bourla told thousands of employees during a companywide town hall on May 2, according to a recording heard by CNBC. A day earlier, the pharmaceutical giant’s stock had …
The United States and China resumed semi-official nuclear arms talks in March for the first time in five years, with Beijing’s representatives telling U.S. counterparts that they would not resort to atomic threats over Taiwan, according to two American delegates who attended. Mark Schiefelbein | AFP | Getty Images The …
Growing up on 13th Avenue in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and ’50s, Anthony “Tony” Fauci was the precocious son of the corner pharmacist. “They called him Doc,” he said. “The pharmacist back then served as the neighborhood psychiatrist, marriage counselor. So, it was serving the community.” The Fauci …
More than a third of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are now estimated to be from a new, fast-growing member of a group of so-called “FLiRT” variants, nicknamed for their small but distinctive changes relative to the JN.1 strain. JN.1 was the variant behind this past winter wave of infections. …
NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 pandemic in more probability had an unnatural origin than a natural one with a potential source being a lab accident or leak, according to new research that employed a commonly used risk analysis tool to arrive at this conclusion. Originally designed to distinguish between natural epidemics …
Two government-run efforts to distribute free COVID-19 tests and to offer free courses of Pfizer’s Paxlovid antiviral are set to end Friday, as trends of the virus have largely slowed. The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, or ASPR, will stop accepting orders to ship COVID-19 tests to all households …
Ziyad Al-Aly is chief of research and development at VA St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as a significant health condition that many experience after COVID-19. Brain fog is a colloquial term …
