State to offer financial incentives to HMOs, which will contact those age 60-plus who have yet to receive three doses, deploy mobile clinics and offer at-home inoculations to some

After insisting extra vaccine doses weren't necessary and fueled inequity, UN health agency says expert panel found boosters highly effective against severe disease and death

Rejecting ‘unfounded claims in popular media,’ peer-reviewed 428-woman research shows 25% of IVF transfers result in pregnancy, regardless of vaccination status, COVID infection

State media reports Tehran sent AstraZeneca doses back to Poland due to 2020 decree by supreme leader to not allow any American- or British-made vaccines into the country

Natural immunity alone much weaker than recovery-plus-shot, mass peer-reviewed research finds; before Omicron, those with ‘hybrid’ protection were 82% less likely to be reinfected

Health reporter Nathan Jeffay offers some rays of light from a waning Omicron wave; news editor Luke Tress dives into messianic Jewish missionaries and a virtual Chabad house

Top US health group finds Pfizer and Moderna shots given to expecting mothers cut the rate of later coronavirus infection among their babies in half

Global initiative aims to spread the word for UNICEF vaccination effort through those with big followings

Sheba Medical Center said to be readying to participate in study; trial to consist of those over 60 who haven't yet had 2nd booster shot, mainly staff members and their families

FDA says more data needed on how well 3rd doses work in this age group, creating uncertainty over when the shots will be okayed for young children