JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 15 years ago, Gilad Lahiani was a young soldier in the Nahal brigade. Lahiani, from the village of Odem in the Golan heights, loved rowing kayaks from the age of 11 and dreamed of competing in tournaments. However all this came to an abrupt end on the 12th of July 2006, when […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says it plans to meet with top U.S. health officials Monday to discuss the drugmaker’s request for federal authorization of a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine as President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser acknowledged that “it is entirely conceivable, maybe likely” that booster shots will be needed. The company said […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Sunday morning that a new batch of vaccines would be arriving from Pfizer in three weeks. Previously it had been feared that Israel would not be able to continue its vaccination campaign since vaccines had run out. Bennett said that “I’m happy to announce that after a […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — When Paul and Helaine Kurlansky first moved to Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 2019, they were excited at the prospect of hosting their children and grandchildren, who lived in a nearby town, for Shabbat and holidays. They chose The Colony, a high-rise co-op building, in large part for the accommodations made […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A month after approving a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug, U.S. health regulators on Thursday signed off on new prescribing instructions that are likely to limit its use. The Food and Drug Administration said the change is intended to address confusion among physicians and patients about who should get the drug, which has […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is pushing back on federal officials, saying he doesn’t want government employees going door-to-door in his state to urge people to get vaccinated. Missouri asked for help last week from nearly formed federal “surge response” teams as it combats an influx of cases that public health […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Pfizer is about to seek U.S. authorization for a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, saying Thursday that another shot within 12 months could dramatically boost immunity and maybe help ward off the latest worrisome coronavirus mutant. Research from multiple countries shows the Pfizer shot and other widely used COVID-19 vaccines […]

MARYLAND (AP) — The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant. The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half, as compiled from official sources by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Heavy winds and lightning from the hurricane closing in on the Florida coast hindered rescue efforts at the site of the Miami tower collapse, but rescuers succeeded in finding four more bodies, bringing the current total of victims to 36. The grim search for survivors continued after the second part of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A study by the Tel Hashomer-Sheba hospital in conjunction with Harvard university states that people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus even after receiving one dose are less susceptible to infection and also less likely to infect others. The study, which involved 9,650 workers from the hospital from the time when […]