 | | | | Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) ruled on Saturday, although WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply concerned about the outbreak. | | | | | | The Biden administration indicated it will seek to prevent states from banning a pill used for medication abortion in light of the Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, signaling a major new legal fight. | | | | | | Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Saturday that a booster dose of updated versions of their COVID-19 vaccine, modified specifically to combat the Omicron coronavirus variant, generated a higher immune response against that variant. | | | | | | An interim analysis of GSK's experimental hepatitis B therapy bepirovirsen in a mid-stage study has raised hopes for a functional cure for millions suffering from a chronic infection, the British drugmaker said on Saturday. | | | | | | The ruling hands a victory to Republicans and religious conservatives who want to limit or ban the procedure. Protesters gathered across the nation and President Biden said empowering states to ban abortion makes the U.S. an outlier among developed nations on protecting reproductive rights. | | | | | | Zero-COVID efforts brought case numbers down, but China's heavy-handed measures fueled anger and rare protests. | | | | | | China's Sinovac Biotech said on Saturday that South Africa's health products regulator has granted conditional registration to its coronavirus vaccine CoronaVac for people aged 18 and above. | | | | | | The launch of German drugmaker BioNTech's vaccine adapted to the Omicron coronavirus variant may be delayed due to a disagreement with the regulator over the approval process, the Welt Am Sonntag (WAS) newspaper reported on Saturday. | | | | | | A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday put on hold the FDA's ban on sales of Juul Labs' e-cigarettes. | | | | | | Thirty-three countries have reported 920 probable cases of severe acute hepatitis in children so far, a jump of 270 from May, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. | | | | | |
