The medical school said it will enroll up to 1,500 volunteers in a late-stage clinical trial for a vaccine being developed by British drugmaker AstraZeneca in partnership with Oxford University.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box said the ratings were changed based on feedback received from school leaders in the past week.
Mental health therapists’ caseloads are bulging. Waiting lists for appointments are growing. And anxiety and depression are rising among Americans amid the coronavirus crisis, research suggests.
The timeline raised concern among some public health experts about an “October surprise”—a COVID-19 vaccine approval driven by political considerations ahead of a presidential election, rather than science.
The NCAA will furlough its entire Indianapolis-based staff of about 600 employees in a cost-saving move, according to memo obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Congress has approved more than $3 trillion in new spending since March to combat the pandemic and subsequent economic downturn, approving hundreds of billions in aid for businesses and the unemployed.
Advocates for low-income families and other Americans struggling to afford their housing costs praised the Trump administration for its approach, which is broader than what Congress enacted earlier in the pandemic.
Cheap, widely available steroid drugs reduced the number of deaths in the sickest patients with COVID-19, show a trio of newly published clinical trials.
Indiana reported the testing of 9,085 more individuals, the seventh time in eight days that testing has exceeded 9,000.
LSC Communications US LLC cited “continued deterioration of market conditions” for its decision to close one of its two Kendallville plants.
Exercising special power granted during the pandemic, Indiana education officials rewrote school funding rules Wednesday to prevent cuts for virtual learning due to the coronavirus.
The Trump administration is canceling some of its remaining orders for ventilators, after rushing to sign nearly $3 billion in emergency contracts as the COVID-19 pandemic surged in the spring. The Department of Health and Human Services issued a statement Tuesday affirming that the national stockpile has now reached its maximum capacity for the life-saving […]
Tuesday’s report, from tests on more than 30,000 people in Iceland, is the most extensive work yet on the immune system’s response to the virus over time, and is good news for efforts to develop vaccines.
The color-coded system, expected to go live Wednesday, assigns scores to counties based on three key metrics: the number of new cases per 100,000 residents, positivity percentage and change in percent positivity from the previous week.
The Big Ten, in a written statement, said Commissioner Kevin Warren and President Donald Trump had a “productive conversation.”
The tests will come from a supply of 150 million ordered from test maker Abbott Laboratories. Abbott’s rapid test, the size of a credit card, is the first that doesn’t require specialty computer equipment to process.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday the administration remains willing to work on a bipartisan agreement to help small businesses, the unemployed, children and schools.
Wall Street kicked off September with another set of milestones Tuesday, as an afternoon rally carried the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite to all-time highs.
Indiana is urging the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to apply the brakes to the challenge to the state’s restrictions on absentee balloting. However, in an order issued Tuesday, the 7th Circuit granted the plaintiffs’ motion to expedite the appeal.
There’s no guarantee that any of the leading candidates will pan out. Final testing, experts stress, must be in large numbers of people to know if they’re safe enough for mass vaccinations.
