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A neurologist who already faces rape charges in New York and New Jersey has been arrested on federal charges alleging he sexually abused pain management patients for the last 15 years

Britain, Russia and Turkey accounted for the most cases.

U.S. regulators are extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine

California’s popular In-N-Out hamburger chain is in trouble with yet another San Francisco Bay Area county over vaccine verifications

A state audit has found that Iowa’s privatized Medicaid system has illegally denied services or care to program recipients, and both private insurance companies managing the system have violated terms of their contracts with the state

The agency is considering action against Arizona, Utah and South Carolina.

US regulators allow mixing of COVID-19 shots for boosters and clear booster Moderna, J&J doses

A judge who ordered the president of the Chicago police officers' union to stop encouraging his members to disobey the city's COVID-19 mandate will remain on the case

About 2,000 police officers have not complied.

Kids aged 5 to 11 will soon be able to get a COVID-19 shot at their pediatrician’s office, local pharmacy and potentially even their school

A fire chief in Florida has been fired for insubordination

President Vladimir Putin has ordered many of Russia's workers to stay off work for a week starting later this month amid rising coronavirus infection and death numbers

With coronavirus cases rising in Britain, the government is urging millions of people to get booster vaccine shots

The Czech Republic has been hit by a steep rise in coronavirus infections that have reached levels unseen since late April

Scientists have temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will spend $120 million to boost access to generic versions of drugmaker Merck’s antiviral COVID-19 pill for lower income countries, if the drug gets approved by regulators

Serbia has introduced COVID passes for indoor venues in late evening hours following weeks of surging infections and relatively low vaccination rates

Morocco is suspending until further notice all flights to and from the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands amid rising coronavirus infections in those countries

White House details plan for 28M children to get COVID-19 vaccine in pharmacies, doctors' offices, as soon as next month

The move comes after certain workers had been required to be vaccinated.

The Biden administration is threatening to revoke the authority for three Republican-controlled states to handle their own workplace safety regulations because they have refused to adopt rules to protect health care workers from COVID-19

In-N-Out shut down indoor dining over not checking customers vaccine status.

U.N. agencies say Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have agreed to a nationwide polio vaccination campaign for the first time in three years

Union Pacific and its labor unions are suing each other to determine whether the railroad has the authority to require its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus

Southwest Airlines is backing away from a plan to put unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave

President Joe Biden’s most aggressive move yet to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is almost ready to see the light of day

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to block a vaccine requirement for Maine health care workers

Alabama will be the third state to carry out a death sentence during the COVID-19 pandemic and is the only one to limit the number of witnesses to a single reporter

The Department of Homeland Security says Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has tested positive for COVID-19

A Texas nurse has been convicted of capital murder in the deaths of four patients who died after prosecutors say he injected them with air following heart surgeries

The South African drug regulator has rejected the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, citing some safety concerns the manufacturer wasn’t able to answer

"This is a chance to love your family -- and love your neighbor"

There has been a "shocking" rise in urgent mental health help for kids.

Federal regulators are expected to authorize the mixing and matching of COVID-19 booster shots this week

For more than 55 years, Medicare has followed a simple policy with covered benefits the same, no matter if you’re rich, poor, or in-between

The president of the National Fraternal Order of Police discusses vaccine hesitancy amongst police and the effect COVID has had on policing.

Police officers in Chicago who refuse to disclose their vaccination status face suspension or termination as they stand off against the city’s vaccine mandate.

Facing a surge of seriously ill COVID-19 patients, the head of an intensive care unit at a Moscow hospital says the situation could easily have been avoided if more Russians were vaccinated

Bulgaria is introducing a COVID-19 “Green Certificate” as a mandatory requirement for access to restaurants, theaters, cinemas, concert halls, gyms, clubs and shopping malls as the country faces a surge in coronavirus infections

The unvaccinated are 11.3x more likely to die than those who are vaccinated.

Romania has hit daily records of both coronavirus infections and deaths as the country grapples with an acute virus surge amid alarmingly low vaccination uptake

Federal health officials are rethinking their approach to controlling salmonella in poultry plants in the hope of reducing the number of illnesses linked to the bacteria each year

U.S. health officials are laying out plans to let most Americans buy hearing aids without a prescription

Scientists are pressing the British government to re-impose social restrictions.

Alabama’s veterans affairs board is pushing for the creation of a program to aid veterans who have health problems that might stem from exposure to toxic chemicals at a former U.S. Army post

Latvia will enter into a nearly monthlong lockdown, including curfew, on Thursday due to the worsening coronavirus situation in the Baltic country where the vaccination rate is among the lowest in the European Union

Vice President Kamala Harris is making the case for the Biden administration’s climate change agenda, standing before the record-low water levels of Nevada’s Lake Mead and warning that “this is where we’re headed.”

New Zealand counted its most new coronavirus cases of the pandemic as an outbreak in its largest city grew and officials urged vaccinations as a way out of Auckland’s two-month lockdown

Harris on Monday will highlight the problems caused by Western drought.

ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with emergency medicine physician and ABC News contributor Dr. Darien Sutton on the FDA’s plans on mixing and matching vaccines and the importance of booster shots.