West Coast states are teaming up to issue their own vaccine guidelines in the face of rapid changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. The federal ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to terminate $500 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development threatens to unravel one of medicine’s greatest recent ...

Vaccines boost the immune system's ability to fight off diseases. Vaccines undergo rigorous testing to ensure safety and effectiveness. Widespread vaccination contributes to herd immunity, protecting ...

COVID-19 vaccines lower the risk of getting sick, seriously ill or dying from the disease. But how do the different types of COVID-19 vaccines work? Each COVID-19 vaccine causes the immune system to ...

Vaccinations used to seem simple. Your doctor would tell you which to get, and you’d roll up your sleeve at the office or a nearby pharmacy. Now we’re seeing changing recommendations, and some people ...

A shot of a shingles vaccine blocks reactivation, potentially preventing the virus from triggering brain inflammation that ...

Sievers is a vaccine researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and the NIH Vaccine Research Center. I’m a vaccine researcher. And I’m terrified of needles. It’s not something I’m ...

Vaccine safety monitoring in the US is a multilayered process that combines passive and active functions, as well as expert analyses of specific safety questions. Side effects are passively reported ...

(NEXSTAR) – An advance in vaccine technology is showing promise toward fighting the second-most common cause of death in the United States, cancer. Scientists are working on developing mRNA vaccines ...

After a large trial showed stronger protection, regulators are weighing whether Moderna’s mRNA vaccine could become a U.S. first.

The first ever avian influenza vaccine recently started trials in the US. This marks a milestone in the prevention of bird ...