How do vaccines work? Here's what medical experts want you to know about safety and efficacy.

An experimental treatment protects mice from COVID-19, flu, bacteria, and more.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that he's pulling the plug on nearly $500 million in funding for the development of mRNA vaccines. Here's how they work.

Vaccines have traditionally worked by teaching the immune system to recognize a specific virus or bacterium—in effect, ...

Vaccines boost the immune system's ability to fight off diseases. Vaccines undergo rigorous testing to ensure safety and effectiveness. Widespread vaccination contributes to herd immunity, protecting ...

Virginia Tech researchers are advancing a new generation of vaccines designed to block opioids from reaching the brain and triggering their addictive effects, work that could help prevent overdose ...

The FDA is already about to start work on the vaccine for next season. — -- Flu season isn’t over yet, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that in less than two ...

Experts in vaccines and vaccination — including pediatricians — work together throughout the year to update the Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for ages 18 years or younger. The ...

Sievers is a vaccine researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and the NIH Vaccine Research Center. I’m a vaccine researcher. And I’m terrified of needles. It’s not something I’m ...

The adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine RSVPreF3 was immunogenic in lung transplant (LT) and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (alloHCT) recipients. No vaccine-associated ...

Researchers are in the earliest phase of piecing together how the shingles vaccine could play a role in lowering the risk of dementia. MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the ...