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More U.S. adults who do not already have children are saying they are unlikely to ever have them, a new Pew Research Center survey finds - findings that could draw renewed attention to the risks of declining birthrates for industrialized nations.

If CDC Director Rochelle Walensky signs off on broader use, the extra shots could be available for all adults as soon as this weekend.

WASHINGTON - All American adults became eligible for coronavirus vaccine boosters on Friday, ending months of confusion over complicated guidelines that had slowed their uptake and prompted unilateral moves by governors from Maine to California to make the shots available more broadly.

TEL AVIV - Israels Ministry of Health on Monday began offering a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine to severely immunocompromised adults in what health experts say could be the first phase of an experiment to provide coronavirus booster shots for older people and the most vulnerable.

Twenty-seven adults and three children who died in a fire at a lighter factory in Binjai district in Langkat regency, North Sumatra, had apparently been unable to flee the blaze. The police suspect they had been locked inside when the fire broke out at noon on Friday.

As women age, their hearts often deteriorate leading to atrial fibrillation or an irregular heartbeat.

MIAMI - A cancer treatment that genetically alters immune cells has shown success in 71 percent of adults with the most common form of leukemia, and for whom other medicines had failed, US researchers said Monday.

International surveys expose weakness of Thailand’s politicised system