Notes from a recent meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ COVID-19 Work Group show health ...

Under direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is considering changes to its recommendations on vaccines ...

Flu activity continues to ebb nationwide, with rates of influenza-like illness (ILI) dropping further last week, but ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

As of March 20, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported 378 confirmed measles cases and two ...

STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reported 6 more H5N1 avian flu ...

Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Next year’s COVID vaccine recommendations ... respiratory virus for which the CDC has long recommended universal annual inoculation. The agency recommends a flu shot every year for every person ...

One of the best ways to avoid getting sick is quite simple, according to Prianka Chawla, MD, Primary Care Physician at Tufts Medical Center: Keep your distance from people who are sick. But because of ...

Following a fall surge of the COVID variant XEC, which led to flu-like symptoms and "wiping people out," there's a new ...