JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yitzchak and Efrat Chori, a couple who had been childless for over 20 years, came to Rabbi Chaim Kanievski in December 2019 and asked what more they could do to have children. Rabbi Chaim suggested that they help to complete a Mikve in a place where there had never been one. The […]

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia reported its first death linked to the AstraZeneca shot on Friday. The 48-year-old woman was injected with the vaccine on April 8. That was hours before Australian authorities recommended people under the age of 50 take the Pfizer shot instead because of the small risk of rare blood clots associated with […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) – Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Thursday people will “likely” need a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated. CNBC is reporting that he also said it’s possible people will need to get vaccinated against the virus annually.

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A New Orleans 911 dispatcher has been arrested and accused of refusing to return more than $1.2 million which was mistakenly deposited in her account by her brokerage firm. Kelyn Spadoni, 33, was taken into custody Wednesday on charges of theft valued over $25,000, bank fraud and illegal transmission of monetary […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A 22-year-old girl was declared dead at the Sieff hospital in Tzfat after she ate a dairy dessert at a meat restaurant in Rosh Pina. The girl, Osher Deri from nearby Hatzor Haglilit, who suffered from a severe allergy to dairy products, had specifically gone to a kosher meat restaurant in order […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine will remain in limbo for a while longer after government health advisers declared Wednesday that they need more evidence to decide if a handful of unusual blood clots were linked to the shot — and if so, how big the risk really is. The reports are exceedingly […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli Pediatric Association (IPA) has published a call to parents and family doctors to vaccinate their children as soon as the Pfizer vaccine is approved for those under 16, according to a Kan news report Tuesday. The IPA statement, which is also supported by The Israel Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is recommending a “pause” in administration of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. In a joint statement Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said they were investigating clots in six women that occurred […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A restaurant owner whose restaurant was burgled and damaged last Saturday decided to take the unusual step of addressing the burglar on Facebook and offering him a job. Carl Wallace, the owner of Diablo’s Southwest Grill in Augusta, Georgia was initially angry when he saw the damage to his restaurant but […]

NEW JERSEY (AP) – For decades, a deadly type of childhood cancer has eluded science’s best tools. Now doctors have made progress with an unusual treatment: Dripping millions of copies of a virus directly into kids’ brains to infect their tumors and spur an immune system attack. A dozen children treated this way lived more […]