Flexitarianism is believed to be an ideal diet to maintain our immune system during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday pledged an additional $250 million to support the development of low-cost and easier to deliver treatments and vaccines against COVID-19.

Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother, on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot outside of a trial as Britain began vaccinating its population.

Fame and glory isn’t all it’s cut out to be for Indonesian multi-instrumentalist Laura Sekarputri, who is seeking to use her wide-ranging musical skills and talents to help others.  

The "hug bubble" allows care home residents, isolated from the outside world to protect them the virus, to hold hands and embrace visiting relatives, because at all times they are separated by a hermetically-sealed plastic film.

When a young woman joined her family for a barbecue one recent Sunday in southern Brazil, soon after a night on the town, she had no idea she would infect 18 relatives with the new coronavirus, and three of them would eventually die.

Dr. Joseph Varon, the chief of staff at United Memorial, a small hospital that primarily treats minority patients in a low-income north Houston neighborhood, made headlines when a photo of him hugging an elderly COVID patient on Thanksgiving went viral.

Heat-related deaths are surging around the world, particularly among older people, warning of growing pressure on health systems hit hard by COVID-19.

Disability is still largely a taboo subject – and if combined with sexual and reproductive health and rights, it becomes a hard issue to digest for many.

The Dutch government has agreed to pay about 2,000 trans people who had to undergo sterilization to legally change their gender 5,000 euros ($5,993) each in compensation.

COVID-19 patients who received cancer treatments that suppress their immune system may remain contagious and able to spread the coronavirus for two months or more.

Singer Elton John has joined leading British HIV/AIDS charities in calling for wider HIV testing to halt new transmissions in England within a decade, amid concerns that COVID-19 has affected access to tests and medication.

Scientists said they had developed a way of predicting if patients will develop Alzheimer's disease by analyzing their blood, in what experts hailed as a potential "gamechanger" in the fight against the debilitating condition.

Visual projects provide an opportunity to connect the head and the heart to ensure that no one – particularly women and girls – is being left behind in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Snatching moments of clarity through the brain fog that was among the lingering symptoms of her coronavirus infection, Hannah Davis joined a team of similarly ill researchers and launched a study of what is now called "long COVID".

The World Health Organization said each country would have to weigh up the coronavirus risks involved in opening their ski slopes, as Europe bickers over a common approach.

The World Health Organization's top emergency expert said on Monday that the world risked future pandemics if it suffered "amnesia" and did not learn from the current coronavirus crisis.

A group of schoolgirls who started a campaign to educate fellow pupils about period poverty want more countries to follow Scotland's example and make sanitary products free.

A coroner's inquest starts in London on Monday to determine whether air pollution played a role in the death of a nine-year-old girl who lived near a busy road.

Although babies of women infected with COVID-19 during their pregnancies have been born with antibodies, it remains unclear if this means the baby is immune to the coronavirus or how long the immunity would last.

The new guidelines recommend at least 150 to 300 minutes of moderate to vigorous aerobic activity per week for all adults.

Developers of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine said that AstraZeneca should try combining its experimental shot with the Russian one to boost efficacy.

The head of British drug manufacturer AstraZeneca said further research was needed on its COVID-19 vaccine after questions emerged over the protection it offers, but the additional testing is unlikely to affect regulatory approval in Europe.

Nearly a year after a mysterious pneumonia emerged in China and began its global spread, there is still no silver bullet treatment for COVID-19 despite an unprecedented effort to discover new medicines or repurpose existing drugs.

From the first cases in central China to hopes of a vaccine a year later, here are a dozen key developments in the spread and subsequent fight against COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic is no excuse for not getting enough exercise, the World Health Organization said, warning that even before the crisis many were getting too little physical activity. 

Scotland made sanitary products free to all women, becoming the first nation in the world to take such a step against "period poverty".

A transgender teenager is taking legal action against England's health service over a delay in accessing specialist gender care, as global debate rages over whether adolescents should be allowed to medically change gender.

Hopes of an effective vaccine against coronavirus becoming available rose again on Monday with AstraZeneca and Oxford University claiming success with their product, becoming the third team to do so.

Britain’s AstraZeneca said on Monday its vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be around 90 percent effective without any serious side effects, giving the world another important tool to halt the COVID-19 pandemic.