COVID-19 infections are reaching new peaks in the Americas with 7.2 million new cases and more than 15,000 COVID-related deaths in the last week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on January 19.

The spread of COVID-19 in the Americas driven by the Omicron variant of the virus reached levels of transmission never before seen during the pandemic, with cases doubling to 6.1 million over the past week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on January 12.

Covid-19 deaths and infections declined across the Americas for an 8th consecutive week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Nov. 3, warning that a very high percentage of hospitalized cases now are unvaccinated people.

Covid-19 is slowly retreating across most of North, Central and South America, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Oct. 27, reporting that last week the continent’s death and infection figures were the lowest in over a year.

The number of new Covid-19 infections dropped during the past month throughout the Americas, even though only 37 percent of the people in Latin America and the Caribbean are fully vaccinated, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Oct. 6.

Nanobiotix is developing a way for the company’s locally injected radioenhancer for solid tumors to treat metastasized cancers, in combination with checkpoint inhibitors, and also deliver results distally.

As the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting presents many clinical trial updates, there appears to be a theme: access to drugs and pricing.

Migraine headaches can be reduced in frequency and severity by atopant, an oral therapy developed by AbbVie, according to data presented at the 2021 American Headache Society’s (AHS) Annual Scientific Meeting.

On the cusp of the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting, more companies are announcing data presentations that will be made over the four-day conference as BioSpace continues to take a look at some of the data that will be shared.

Almost half of the more than 3.4 million Covid-19 deaths reported so far in the world have occurred in the Americas, but the real numbers may be higher, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned on May 26.