Health & Science

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, a 2017 World Health Organization report noted Japan was facing a “critical shortage of doctors.”

Asia will likely be last out of the pandemic because of low vaccination rates, said Todd Handcock of Collinson Group, a travel services firm.

A CDC panel said there isn’t enough data yet to support recommending Covid booster shots to the general population but that more-vulnerable people may need it.

Delta has the potential “to be more lethal because it’s more efficient in the way it transmits between humans,” the WHO’s Dr. Mike Ryan said.

New Covid-19 infections in the U.S. will tick higher this fall as the highly contagious delta variant spreads, epidemiologist Dr. Anne Rimoin warned Wednesday.

“This is still a rare event,” Dr. Tom Shimabukuro said at the meeting. For both vaccines combined, there were 12.6 heart inflammation cases per million doses.

Alzheimer’s disease impacts millions of people across the world, especially women making up two thirds of those diagnosed. Lezza Gibbons watched her mother suffer from Alzheimer’s and now she’s on a mission to create resources for families impacted by the illness. She tells “California Live” about BrainGuide, a questionnaire that helps identify the onset of Alzheimer’s.

British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline faces a crunch meeting with investors after announcing a new strategy for the next decade.

Fauci said the variant has a doubling time of about two weeks and currently accounts for 20% newly diagnosed infections in the U.S.

Fully vaccinated employees should embrace a return to the office rather than run away from it, LaSalle Network CEO Tom Gimbel told CNBC on Wednesday.

A key CDC advisory panel is holding a meeting Wednesday to discuss rare, but higher-than-expected, reports of heart inflammation in young people.

Vienna-based online tutoring start-up GoStudent has raised roughly $244 million in an investment round that values the firm at $1.67 billion.

A CDC panel is holding a meeting to discuss rare reports of heart inflammation in young people after receiving their second Covid vaccine dose.

Government data showed there were 50,848 infections recorded over a 24-hour period on Wednesday, bringing the total reported cases to 30.02 million.

Delta, first identified in India, now makes up about 20% of all new cases in the United States, up from 10% about two weeks ago, Fauci said.

Roughly 65% of American adults have received one shot or more as of Monday, according to the CDC, on pace to land at about 67% on the Fourth of July.

U.S. stock futures rose modestly Tuesday, one day after the Dow recovered a big chunk of last week’s plunge.

Coronavirus vaccine booster shots will likely be needed in the fall, according to experts. Here’s what we know so far.

Travel options for the unimmunized are starting to dwindle as nations prioritize safety and simplified entrance requirements over open-door policies for all.

Controlling Covid-19 would put Asian economies in good stead to manage rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve, said Steve Cochrane of Moody’s Analytics.