Vaccines

COVID hospitalizations are slowly rising again this summer, causing scientists and clinicians to rethink if or when the disease will become a seasonal illness

States will get less funding for childhood vaccines, a move linked to the recent debt ceiling deal

Staged arguments with antivaccine cranks or other science deniers gets scientists nowhere. Trust me, I tried

There are safeguards to ensure they won’t end up in your food

An mRNA vaccine prevented tumor recurrence after surgery in eight of 16 patients, but the therapy still needs to be validated in larger trials

The FDA has authorized a second updated COVID booster for older people and immunocompromised individuals. Most healthy adults still have to wait

Decades of failed attempts have given way to several successful vaccines and treatments for the respiratory disease RSV

A vaccine pioneer tells us that shots to protect against RSV—a dangerous virus for babies and older people—are finally nearing approval.

The World Health Organization declared the COVID outbreak a pandemic three years ago. Here’s what’s changed since then

Although most experts say bird flu is not an immediate threat to humans, efforts are underway to produce vaccines for H5N1 or another potential pandemic virus

Pregnant people infected with SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit or die than those who are uninfected, but vaccination significantly reduces the risk

Some scientists say the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s suggestion of updating COVID vaccines each year, as happens with influenza vaccines, could boost uptake. But others are less convinced