The UK's Health Security Agency says its analysis of English data shows COVID vaccines are safe in pregnancy, reinforcing international...
The Economist magazine looked at excess mortality and concluded around 17 million have died from COVID.
Experts are tracking a new mutation of the Delta variant of the coronavirus reported in dozens of countries.
Scientists have worked on developing mRNA jabs for illnesses like the seasonal flu, rabies, Zika, malaria and AIDS.
The highly contagious Delta variant is now dominant across the world.
Because these conditions predominantly affect women, they have more often been dismissed as being psychological in origin.
One doctor refused to test Jessika Ricarte's one-year-old son for COVID, saying his symptoms did not fit the profile of the virus.
At the end of March 2020, one in four National Health Service (NHS) doctors were sick or in isolation, according to the Royal College of Physicians.
Are children a major source of contagion for COVID-19? 10 months into the coronavirus pandemic, experts are still divided on the question.