Plus: Any restriction of civil and political rights must meet these five specific criteria.

The trial will enroll healthy volunteers to test the vaccine’s safety and ability to trigger an immune response.

A Canadian hospital lab adapts two Roche diagnostic systems, allowing for over 2,000 COVID-19 tests a day. How many are in the U.S.?

However, the overdose death rate resulting from synthetic opioids, especially fentanyl, rose between 2017 and 2018.

The assurance arrives as the pharma giant cuts off most emergency access to remdesivir, a potential COVID-19 treatment.

Alabama state pandemic guidance advises denying ventilators for use by people with metastatic cancer, AIDS and end-stage liver disease.

Although people over 60 are at greatest risk, younger people can develop serious complications from the new coronavirus too.

Australian researchers conducted experiments on mice that they fed only every other day.

A bot named Clara helps Americans determine whether they need medical care for COVID-19.

Drugs used for decades to treat malaria may help people with the new coronavirus, but clinical trials are needed.