Cuba is set to undergo a historic shift on Thursday, elevating a relatively unknown Communist Party official, Miguel Díaz-Canel, to replace retiring President Raúl Castro. The National Assembly ...

A new COVID-19 variant, NB.1.8.1, has been detected in the US. The CDC identified cases in New York and several other states. Experts caution that NB.1.8.1 spreads faster but may not cause severe ...

A new variant of COVID-19 is circulating in parts of the world and may be driving an increase in cases in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western Pacific regions.

New research has found that men who carry a common genetic variant are twice as likely to develop dementia in their lifetime compared to women. Co-author Professor John Olynyk, from the Curtin ...

COVID-19 cases are rising again as a new variant begins to circulate in some parts of the world. The World Health Organization said Wednesday the rise in cases is primarily in the eastern ...

Here's who the FDA says can get a new COVID-19 vaccine this fall amid a change in policy 02:33. Cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, linked to a large surge in China, have been detected in ...

NB.1.8.1 was detected at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The variant has been linked to a surge in China. What’s the risk for Washington state?

Early signs suggest NB.1.8.1 may be more transmissible than earlier variants, likely due to mutations in the spike protein. But there’s no evidence it’s more severe.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Stanford Clinical Virology Laboratory confirmed California's first known infection on April 17.. The new variant is called NB.1.8.1. It arrives as the ...

In January, a new COVID-19 variant known as NB.1.8.1 was first detected in China. As of mid-May, the variant had reached 10.7% of global reported COVID-19 cases, according to the World Health ...

NB.1.8.1, a new Omicron subvariant, is under scrutiny as a variant under monitoring (VUM) due to its increasing global presence. While it appears more transmissible, severity hasn't increased ...