Vaccine News
FDA advisers endorse updating COVID vaccines to target latest omicron strain
The COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall. Today’s vaccines still contain the original coronavirus…
CDC warns travelers of ‘high risk’ of polio if visiting these 30…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging travelers to practice enhanced precautions when going to places such as…
CDC’s mpox alert for summer puts focus on JYNNEOS vaccine: What to…
Lack of testing, rationed vaccine doses, and weeks of painful quarantine characterized last year’s outbreak of mpox, then known as monkeypox….
Medical Miracles: Lawmakers push for congressional award for Henrietta Lacks
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — There’s a push to recognize a medical pioneer in Washington on Wednesday. Henrietta Lacks is known around the world…
What Are the Side Effects of the New RSV Vaccines?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two separate vaccines to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in older adults aged 60…
Ask the Pediatrician: What vaccines do tweens, teens and young adults need?
Starting at about age 7 through age 18, children and teens need a number of important vaccines to protect them….
Childhood vaccine rates show signs of recovery after pandemic backslide, global vaccine…
LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) – Childhood immunisation rates began to recover last year in the world’s poorest countries after being…
For COVID-19 vaccination, the emergency may be over, but the fight continues
Public health officials have spent the past two years urging people to get vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19, but despite…
How Close Are We To A Vaccine For Alzheimer’s Disease?
A vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease. It sounds amazing, even fantastical – but we are a lot closer to this goal…
FDA approves 2nd U.S. RSV vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Pfizer’s vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus for people aged 60 and older, making it…
Science finally figured out how to make effective RSV vaccines. Will seniors…
The world has waited decades for vaccines to protect older adults against RSV. One, made by GSK, was approved by the Food…
As long COVID turns three, Americans play disability roulette
While society yawns, impatient to move on from the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans still play disability roulette. About 1 in 10 of the 110,000 people who…
Virtually ouch-free: Promising early data on a measles vaccine delivered via sticker
Vaccine experts tend to be a serious bunch, but many are downright giddy about vaccine clinical trial results presented last…
Lyme Vaccines Are Finally Coming, and They May Not Look Like You’d…
Spring is turning to summer and the ticks are ready to start biting. As climate change shortens winters, warm-weather-loving ticks…
Covid Kills One Person Every Four Minutes as Vaccine Rates Fall
After more than three years, the global Covid emergency is officially over. Yet it’s still killing at least one person…