In mid-February, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) communications director Andrew Nixon announced the cancellation of the February meeting of the nation’s premier vaccine advisory panel ...

Several Democratic-run states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Department of Health and Human Services over its decision to remove seven vaccines from the childhood vaccination schedule. “The ...

California is challenging a revision of the U.S. childhood immunization schedule issued earlier this year under the Trump administration as part of a multistate lawsuit announced on Tuesday, Feb. 24.

Federal health officials have pared back the number of shots recommended for children. The states, led by Democrats, say the changes were not based on science. By Apoorva Mandavilli Aiming to reverse ...

2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines reduced hospitalization risk by 40% against JN.1 lineage variants. COVID-19 is still a public threat and health concern. Between 2024 and 2025, an estimated 380,000 to ...

Booster vaccines reduced the risk of COVID‑19–related hospitalization and death, according to a new study of over 3 million adults who had the autumn 2022 vaccine in England. The research led by the ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

The vaccine maker’s shots involve the successful Covid vaccines’ RNA technology. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has broadly rejected it, canceling millions of dollars in research projects. By ...

Public trust in the CDC is at its lowest since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a KFF poll that asked U.S. adults their thoughts on the CDC’s new childhood immunization schedule. On Jan. 5, acting ...

A model of a new vaccine targeting a family of coronaviruses that includes the virus that causes COVID-19. The image highlights pieces of several different viruses attached to a computer-designed ...

Illinois will adopt the childhood vaccine schedule recently released by the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a rejection of federal recommendations. The move is the latest example of Illinois ...