HEALTH NEWS

France's parliament has approved a law that will exclude unvaccinated people from restaurants, sports arenas and other venues.

The Austrian government has presented revised plans for its proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too.

President Joe Biden came to office seeing two sicknesses in his country.

The World Health Organization says a U.N.-backed program shipping coronavirus vaccines to many poor countries has now delivered 1 billion doses, but that milestone “is only a reminder of the work that remains” after hoarding and stockpiling in rich countries.

The omicron variant of the pandemic is exposing the vulnerabilities of European public health systems.

The pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline says it has rejected an unsolicited 50 billion-pound ($68.4 billion) bid from Unilever for its consumer healthcare goods unit.

To his critics, Novak Djokovic has been cavalier and reckless in the face of a deadly pandemic.

A federal judge has ordered Martin Shkreli to return $64.6 million in profits reaped from inflating the price of a lifesaving drug and barred him from the pharmaceutical industry for the rest of his life.

The new Czech government will allow some workers who have tested positive for the coronavirus to stay on the job, in an extraordinary measure to ease possible staff shortages caused by an anticipated surge of the omicron variant.

Total COVID-19 pediatric hospitalizations in Florida reached a new high, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data posted Friday.

The Biden administration is threatening to recoup COVID-19 relief funds sent to Arizona over state provisions it says discourage families and school districts from following federal guidance recommending face coverings in schools.

Just last week, we asked: If you’re a health care worker, what are you seeing lately on the job?

Insurers and employers are taking a renewed interest in programs that help people deal with chronic _ and potentially expensive _ health problems.

Athletes have been put at center court of arguments over COVID vaccines.

The Dutch government has eased its coronavirus lockdown, allowing non-essential stores, universities, sports clubs and “contact businesses” like hairdressers to reopen for the first time in nearly a month.