The COVID booster currently available is based on the JN.1 subvariant. Nimbus is a direct descendant of JN.1 – as is another ...

Late summer marks the time when kids start returning to school, and parents are busy checking off back-to-school lists with ...

HealthDay News — There was an overall decrease in influenza vaccine uptake among U.S. adults from 2020 to 2024, according to a study published online July 16 in PLOS Global Public Health.

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And New Zealand Warriors chief executive Cameron George insists the club’s move to forge an outreach into south-east ...

In some areas there are concerns that ethnic minority groups are falling behind the rest of the population when it comes to ...

Earlier this summer the FDA asked Moderna for more efficacy data on its flu vaccine before it could review an mRNA-based ...

University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health scientists report that seasonal influenza vaccination prevented 32.9% to ...

Canada does not currently have a bird flu vaccine, but research is underway at the University of Guelph to try and create an ...

The flu vaccine is not free for babies and children unless they meet certain criteria for being at higher risk of serious illness. This includes having a long-term health condition like asthma, ...

Decades of research show the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal is safe in vaccines, but CDC's new advisory panel is raising concerns about its safety.

“In our results, a substantial proportion of infections was prevented when transmissibility was similar to that encountered ...