Each human and mammalian infection gives the virus an opportunity to mutate and evolve better ways of transmitting from ...

Here are eight possible indicators of how health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may handle U.S. vaccine policy in coming ...

Over the years, vaccines have prevented countless diseases and saved millions of lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There are vaccines for infants, children, ...

Clayton and Kathryn Nash, 68 and 72, were born in the 1950s, about a decade before the measles vaccine was approved in the US ...

More than 20,000 jobs were eliminated, billions of dollars in scientific research has been threatened or paused, and a budget draft proposes a major restructuring of Health and Human Services.

A new study found the shingles vaccination cut older adults’ risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.

HealthDay News — On Tuesday, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the government will invest $176 million in Moderna to expedite the creation of a pandemic influenza ...

Each year, an estimated 150,000 people in the United States are hospitalized due to pneumococcal pneumonia, the most common form of bacterial pneumonia.

It’s wonderful that Americans of all political parties have benefited from decades of American medical research and development, including treatments for heart disease, leukemia and HIV; vaccines ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates nearly 13 million people in the U.S. have “latent TB infection.