Coronavirus

First Opinion Paul Hudson

Biopharma innovation needs to harness lessons learned from Covid-19

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Pulse oximeters and their inaccuracies will get FDA scrutiny. What took so long?

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Allison DeAngelis and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Anti-science at the polls, a biotech odd couple, & the stakes of the midterms

Health Megan Molteni

Got questions about the timing of flu and Covid vaccines? Here’s what experts say

First Opinion Marina Del Rios, Nathan T. Chomilo and Neil A. Lewis, Jr.

Covid-19 is an inverse equity story, not a racial equity success story

Politics Sarah Owermohle

On the campaign trail, Republicans ramp up anti-science, anti-Covid, often anti-Fauci messaging

First Opinion Neel Vahil

Keeping families out of ICUs no longer makes sense as the pandemic eases

Health Helen Branswell

FDA’s vaccines chief sees possibility of more Covid boosters — sooner than he’d like

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Allison DeAngelis and Adam Feuerstein

BU’s Covid tinkering, FDA on trial, & why it’s hard to take drugs off the market

First Opinion Winnie Byanyima

To learn lessons from pandemics, don’t listen to big pharma

Health Helen Branswell

FDA authorizes booster shot for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine

Health Helen Branswell

As monkeypox subsides, experts grapple with the possibility of long-term consequences

In the Lab Helen Branswell

BU lab wasn’t required to clear potentially controversial study with NIH, director says

Politics Andrew Joseph

In new White House plan, Biden administration outlines ambitious strategy to prevent and prepare for pandemics

Politics Sarah Owermohle

Biden officials search for backup for key Covid therapy for immunocompromised people

In the Lab Helen Branswell

Boston University researchers’ testing of lab-made version of Covid virus draws government scrutiny

Biotech Matthew Herper

Flush with cash from Covid-19 vaccine, BioNTech founders have outsized ambitions

Health Andrew Joseph

FDA authorizes updated Covid-19 boosters for kids as young as 5

Health Usha Lee McFarling

A doctor’s humbling journey treating long Covid: ‘The second we think we know what we are doing, we fall flat on our face’

Politics Sarah Owermohle

To boost rural vaccination rates, health officials head for NASCAR

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Merck’s Covid-19 pill was no better than placebo in lowering the risk of hospitalization

Health Andrew Joseph

From BQ.1.1 to XBB and beyond: How the splintering of Omicron variants could shape Covid’s next phase

First Opinion Juliana E. Morris

Doctors who knowingly spread Covid-19 lies should be held accountable

Health Isabella Cueto

‘Disaster to disaster’: Underinvestment in public health systems obstructs response to Covid, monkeypox, Walensky says

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Allison DeAngelis and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Biden’s Covid declaration, twilight of the SPAC, & genome editing 2.0

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Catalent is scolded by FDA for quality control issues at a plant that helps make Covid-19 vaccines

Health Helen Branswell

Is the Covid-19 pandemic over? The answer is more art than science

Health Elizabeth Cooney

‘I’m deeply concerned’: Francis Collins on trust in science, how Covid communications failed, and his current obsession

Health Jason Mast

Advances in treating the sickest Covid patients have stalled. Why?