A decade of data shows that switching to a recombinant flu vaccine could prevent up to 10,000 hospitalizations per year in ...

A majority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's work group on COVID-19 vaccines now supports ending the agency's pandemic-era recommendation for virtually all Americans to get ...

An independent vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met to discuss and vote on ...

More: CDC panel lowers age for key vaccine. What older adults should know. The meeting was abruptly delayed in February just days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time vaccine skeptic ...

Moser asked, after a presentation on the efficacy of the 2024-2025 flu vaccine. In response, CDC epidemiologist Sascha Ellington said three of four flu vaccine surveillance networks would continue ...

Under a risk-based recommendation, the CDC would continue to recommend two doses of Covid-19 vaccines each year for older adults — those over 65 — and to anyone with weakened immune function.

This week, the CDC’s government-chartered advisory body ... One vote would have set flu vaccine recommendations for the 2025-2026 U.S. flu season following the FDA’s March review.

A majority of the CDC's working group favored the risk-based approach compared to the current near universal recommendation. The panel is set to vote on formal recommendations in its June meeting.

It could end up benefiting them in the long run. The Philadelphia Flyers’ poor 2024-25 season, which concluded on Thursday with a 5-4 regulation loss in Buffalo, leaving them with a 33-39-10 ...

Pfizer recently received a CDC recommendation for wider use of its RSV vaccine, ABRYSVO, in adults aged 50-59 at increased risk. Despite this positive development, Pfizer's shares saw a 2% decline ...

In a single day, 10,000 federal workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were laid off, including 90% or more of those at the CDC’s National ...

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