Coronavirus

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Paying research participants — a lot — may be a key to increasing diversity in studies

Health Andrew Joseph

Covid’s winter surge is poised to exceed summer peak

Politics Sarah Owermohle

Priorities pile up for HHS, FDA, CMS, NIH, and other health agencies

Health Elaine Chen and Isabella Cueto

3 things to watch in chronic disease in 2023: obesity drugs, long Covid and health care costs

Health Jason Mast

Study could pave way for new antiviral, as China grapples with Covid wave

Health Ryan Cross — The Boston Globe

Drug companies set sights on new Covid medicines to boost depleted arsenal

Health Usha Lee McFarling

U.S. imposes Covid testing requirements on travelers from China

Health Helen Branswell

Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here’s what even the experts didn’t see coming

Health Ambar Castillo

U.S. life expectancy falls for second straight year as drug overdose and Covid deaths take toll

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs

After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research

Politics Rachel Cohrs

Pandemic response gets a permanent new home at the White House

Health Jason Mast

Infectious disease board recommends hospitals stop screening asymptomatic patients for Covid-19

Politics Rachel Cohrs and Sarah Owermohle

Congress reaches major health policy deal on Medicare, Medicaid, and pandemic preparedness

Biotech Jason Mast

Drugmakers ask regulators to change standards on new Covid antibody drugs for most vulnerable

Health Tara Bannow

Nine in 10 health care companies with financial stress are owned by private equity

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Death certificate records of long Covid are a ‘floor of an estimate,’ experts say

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Lawmakers tell Pfizer CEO to ‘back off’ on planned price hike for Covid-19 vaccine

Health Helen Branswell

WHO names Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, as chief scientist

Health Brittany Trang

Covid vaccines averted 3 million deaths in U.S., according to new study

Hospitals Tara Bannow

Coming soon: Permanent Covid-19 safety rules for health care workers

Insurance Bob Herman

The Covid-19 test maker that pivoted to being a health insurance company

Health Isabella Cueto

Getting ahead of ‘tsunami’ of chronic disease will require data and creativity, experts say

Politics Rachel Cohrs

Walensky says CDC needs more authority from Congress to collect public health data

Health Helen Branswell

FDA authorizes updated Covid-19 boosters for youngest children

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

U.S. delays backing for patent waivers on Covid-19 therapies and diagnostics

Business Tara Bannow

Medical malpractice lawsuits, delayed by the pandemic, are hitting hospitals harder than expected

Health Andrew Joseph

Covid evolution wipes out another antibody treatment, threatening the country’s medicine cabinet

Health Helen Branswell

With no exit strategy from ‘zero Covid’ policy, China could face tsunami in cases, experts fear

First Opinion Vineeta Gupta

Rushing into the World Bank’s Pandemic Fund is a bad idea