Vaccine News
FDA advisers urge targeting JN.1 strain in recipe for fall’s COVID vaccines
Government advisers Wednesday said it’s time to update the recipe for the COVID-19 vaccines Americans will receive in the fall…
As mpox cases rise, experts urge complete, 2-part vaccinations
The number of U.S. mpox cases has more than doubled compared with last year, and the federal Centers for Disease…
FDA approves Moderna’s mRNA RSV vaccine for older adults
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved another vaccine to help protect older people from respiratory syncytial virus, known as…
The Chicken and Egg Problem of Fighting Another Flu Pandemic
Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs. They worried…
Moderna’s RSV vaccine for older adults approved
Moderna’s RSV shot for adults 60 and older was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday, joining a…
Third person infected in U.S. bird flu outbreak — but with new…
Another human case of bird flu linked to sick dairy cows has been detected in Michigan, marking the third farmworker diagnosed with…
HPV vaccine can reduce risk of multiple cancers in men, new study…
Nearly two decades after the launch of the first HPV vaccine, mounting evidence shows that people who got vaccinated are…
Researchers are developing an experimental bird flu mRNA vaccine
Researchers are developing an mRNA-based vaccine against the contagious H5N1 bird flu virus that is spreading rapidly among poultry and…
This COVID vaccine program offered a ‘bridge’ to uninsured adults, and then…
Uninsured adults will lose an option this August to get vaccinated against COVID for free, weeks before an updated vaccine…
HPV Vaccines Prevent Cancer in Men as Well as Women, New Research…
New research suggests the HPV vaccine is preventing cancer in men, as well as in women, but fewer boys than…
CDC says vaccination could protect the U.S. from more dangerous mpox virus
As concerns mount about a large outbreak of an especially virulent form of mpox in central Africa and an uptick…
Colorado has most normal respiratory virus season since start of pandemic, but…
Colorado has wrapped up its first relatively ordinary respiratory disease season since the pandemic began, with no unusually large or…
CDC to end free COVID vaccine program for uninsured early
A federal program providing free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured and underinsured adults is shutting down this summer, before the fall rollout…
C.D.C. Warns of a Resurgence of Mpox
With Pride events scheduled worldwide over the coming weeks, U.S. officials are bracing for a return of mpox, the infectious disease formerly…
How many people did we save with social distancing and COVID vaccines?…
Before the first COVID-19 vaccine became available, Americans radically changed their behavior to avoid getting the virus by social distancing…