Tag: Hopes

US hopes to start virus vaccines in December as pandemic surges

The United States hopes to begin coronavirus vaccinations in early December, a top government health official said Sunday, the latest positive news to emerge even as cases surge across the worst-hit nation and elsewhere around the globe. The beginning of vaccinations could be a crucial shift in the battle against a virus that has claimed

Hopes rise again for a drug to slow Alzheimer’s disease

Experimental Alzheimer’s drug raises hopes after it appears to slow down effects of the degenerative disease for more than 100 trial patients On cognitive tests, patients who received the highest dose of the drug performed 30 percent better At the beginning of the study, all the participants had signs of plaques in the brain that