Health

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former executive director of the Theranos Center, is leaving the U.S. Federal Court in San Jose, California on May 6, 2021.Nina Riggio | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIn the case of Elizabeth Holmes, it...

A medical worker injects a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine into a man at a hospital in Accra, capital of Ghana, on May 19, 2021.Seth | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesAfrica will need at least 20...

Audrey Vakker, 14, watches as she receives a Covid-19 vaccination at the Fairfax Government Center Vaccination Clinic in Fairfax, Virginia on May 13, 2021.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesThe average daily number of Covid cases in...

US privacy laws need to be updated, especially after Google signs a deal with a major hospital chain, medical ethics expert Arthur Kaplan said on Wednesday. "Now we have electronic medical records, huge amounts of data, and it's like...

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a hearing on the National Institute of Health (NIH) budget estimates and the state of medical research on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on May...

SINGAPORE - Malaysia's daily Covid-19 cases are increasing rapidly and have outperformed India in one critical respect, according to statistics website Our World in Data.India has been experiencing a devastating second wave since April and has the second largest...

White House officials told reporters Tuesday that China had not been "completely transparent" in its global investigation into the origins of Covid-19 and that a full investigation was needed to determine whether the virus is affecting nearly 3.5 million...

Officials from the National Institutes of Health testified before Congress Tuesday the agency's annual budget as the nation battles the Covid-19 pandemic.Witnesses include the White House Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who also directs the National Institute...

A patient is given oxygen while waiting outside a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 13, 2021. There are no beds for Covid-19 patients in the country's state hospitals.Sunil Pradhan | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesIndia...

Naomi Hassebroek will receive her second COVID-19 vaccine at NYC Health + Hospitals in Gotham Health Sydenham in the Manhattan borough of New York on March 29, 2021.Caitlin Ox | ReutersThe Covid-19 vaccination rate in New York has...