The Latest Breaking News on COVID-19

Doctors may miss how addiction patients cheat drug tests

Doctors may be missing patients who are trying to cheat on tests that check if they are taking medication for opioid addiction

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2023

The X chromosome's superpower

A new study comes closer to figuring out why men die more often from viral infections

Salon · Mar 22, 2023

Prime Minister urged to raise pay outs for debilitating vaccine side effects

A Conservative former minister said the small number of people who suffer serious injury from vaccines need to be ‘properly compensated’.

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2023

Norovirus cases on the rise in Ireland as experts outline how to avoid infection

Norovirus is an easily spread illness that causes sudden onset of vomiting and diarrhoea

Irish Mirror · Mar 21, 2023

Scientists push to change COVID-19 antiviral guidelines to make medication more accessible in Australia

Some scientists say Australia's guidelines on who can get antivirals is too restrictive. But the federal health department says our use of antivirals is only marginally less than the US.

ABC News · Mar 20, 2023

New CDC opioid guidelines: Too little, too late for chronic pain patients?

Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain.

Tribune News Service · Mar 20, 2023

Newborn babies 'more protected from Covid if their pregnant mothers have the jab'

New research suggests that two doses reduce the risk of infants testing positive in the first six months of their life

Wales Online · Mar 18, 2023

Financial strain on dad of three diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help Gwyn Warner and his young family through this difficult time

Wales Online · Mar 17, 2023

Doctors in Chicago, elsewhere aim to unravel long COVID’s mysteries, but ‘science takes years’

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center say they already know enough to believe that vaccination likely helps prevent lasting symptoms seen with long COVID.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 17, 2023

COVID-19 cases in South Australia jump, signalling start of next wave

South Australia has recorded a 37 per cent increase in the number of COVID-19 cases reported in the past week.

ABC News · Mar 17, 2023