Health

Throughout the pandemic, Toronto emergency physician Dr. Lisa Salamon has seen a certain type of patient show up over and over — younger adults with COVID-19 who aren't gasping for air and seem to be breathing fine. That is, until…

Teams of experts are projecting that COVID-19's toll on the United States will fall sharply by the end of July, according to research released by the government on Wednesday. But they also warn that a "substantial increase" in…

Health Canada offered parents anxious about their unvaccinated children some hope today by clearing the Pfizer product for use in people as young as 12 years old. After reviewing clinical trial data submitted by the New York-based…

An Alberta woman in her 50s has died from a rare blood clot condition after receiving the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, says the province's chief medical officer of health. In a statement Tuesday, Dr. Deena Hinshaw said the woman died of …

Canadians should take the first vaccine that becomes available to them even though the federal government's advisory committee on vaccines may have sown confusion with conflicting messaging about preferred doses, some health experts say.…

Every day, more and more Canadians are vaccinated against COVID-19. It has often been suggested that as this trend continues, we will soon reach a point where so many people are invulnerable to the virus that it will largely die out due…

Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti empathizes with other Canadians who have reported common side effects after receiving their COVID-19 vaccines. After his second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, he had a low-grade fever and joint pain. But…

COVID-19 vaccines developed in China are already being used in several countries around the world. And some developed in India, Kazakhstan and Cuba have been in use domestically for their own populations even before completion of Phase 3…

One of the people behind the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine says he has yet to see any evidence that emerging variants of the disease have found a way to defeat it. Dr. Ugur Sahin, who founded BioNTech with his wife Dr. Özlem Türeci,…

U.S. President Joe Biden is setting a new COVID-19 vaccination goal to deliver at least one dose to 70 per cent of adult Americans by July 4, the White House said Tuesday, as the administration pushes to make it easier for people to get…