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Coronavirus infections could be driven to low levels and the pandemic at least temporarily throttled in the United States by July if the vast majority of people get vaccinated and continue with precautions against viral transmission, according to a strikingly optimistic paper released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report comes […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Wednesday that 12- to 15-year-olds receive the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, expanding the nation’s vaccination campaign. The CDC took the step after its vaccination advisory panel voted to recommend the shot at a meeting Wednesday after reviewing clinical trial data and other relevant

The U.S. said Wednesday it would support the temporary waiver of intellectual property provisions to allow developing nations to produce Covid-19 vaccines created by pharmaceutical companies, citing an urgent need to stem the pandemic. Overriding objections from the pharmaceutical industry, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said the U.S. would support a proposal working its way

West Virginia communities moved forcefully Tuesday to show that prescription opioids have been a “gateway” leading Americans on deadly paths to heroin and illicit fentanyl, escalating a crucial and controversial debate in multidistrict opioid litigation’s leadoff trial. Cabell County and its largest city, Huntington — two plaintiffs in the bellwether trial that started Monday against

The company has agreed to two separate recalls, one for the Tread+ and a second for the Tread, which calls for owners to immediately stop using the treadmills and contact Peloton for a full refund. Peloton said it has stopped sales and distribution of the Tread+ while it works on modifying the machine. The company

A New Jersey state judge won’t let Allergan Inc. escape multicounty litigation by patients alleging its Biocell breast implants were defective and caused them to develop a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, finding several claims are not preempted by federal regulation. Judge Rachelle L. Harz on Tuesday denied in part Allergan’s motion to dismiss on preemption

A sudden fuel shortage worsened across the eastern half of the United States on Wednesday after a cyberattack crippled a major pipeline, as long lines, sharp words and pumps gone dry greeted unhappy drivers from the Alabama foothills to the Chesapeake Bay. Although government and industry officials said the nation had plenty of fuel and

A Sanofi patient has asked the full Fifth Circuit to review the dismissal of her allegations the pharmaceutical giant failed to warn that its chemotherapy drug Taxotere carried a risk of permanent hair loss, arguing the panel ignored important testimony offered by her oncologist. June Phillips requested en banc rehearing of her attempt to revive

 A man who alleged Monsanto’s Roundup caused his cancer pressed the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to flip a lower court’s ruling that his failure-to-warn claim is barred by federal law, saying other courts have come to the opposite conclusion in an appeal challenged by other Roundup plaintiffs. John Carson — whose $100,000 settlement with Monsanto

The Food and Drug Administration cleared the first coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in children as young as 12 on Monday, expanding access to the Pfizer-BioNTech shot to adolescents ahead of the next school year and marking another milestone in the nation’s battle with the virus. The decision that the two-shot regimen is safe and