The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. Anthony Fauci keep pushing hard for all healthy children to have four doses of the COVID vaccine despite the lack of clinical outcomes data to ...

Moving to just one dose of an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents appears to limit associated rare cases of myocarditis, according to a study out of Hong Kong. Of 43 vaccine-related ...

Mounting data on mRNA vaccination against COVID-19 continued to suggest a small excess risk of myocarditis, especially in young men and adolescent boys. Based on voluntary reports to the passive ...

A new study sheds light on what may be causing very rare cases of heart inflammation in young men after receiving an mRNA Covid vaccine. Early hypotheses as to what was driving the heart inflammation, ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel is set to meet Wednesday to discuss reports of myocarditis and pericarditis in some COVID-19 mRNA vaccine recipients. Leading up to ...

Myocarditis refers to inflammation of your heart muscle. It’s often caused by a bacterial or viral infection. Myocarditis is a disease where the heart muscle, known as the myocardium, becomes inflamed ...

Reports have suggested an association between the development of myocarditis and the receipt of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), but the frequency and ...

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle (also called myocardium). Researchers think that it affects 1.5 million people around the world each year. This means that 1 or 2 out of every 10,000 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of parenting and health. Pediatrician and former emergency physician Jan Bonhoeffer, MD, is a ...

Myocarditis describes inflammation of heart tissue known as the myocardium. This inflammation can affect the electrical system of the heart and reduce the heart’s ability to pump blood around the body ...