Vaccines

Drawing on her own fears as a new parent, Karen Ernst says that understanding people's concerns is the first step to stronger vaccine trust.

The HHS secretary's targeting of a federal vaccine compensation program that settles injury claims could diminish the fund, saddling pharmaceutical companies with liability risks and costs that would compel them to stop making vaccines altogether.

Amid political chatter about vaccines and the government entities that oversee them, it’s understandable to wonder where all this leaves the 2025-26 flu vaccine. Here's what you need to know.

Research on mRNA vaccine technology led to rapid Covid shots and a Nobel Prize. Now HHS is ending support for that research, including a project at Emory University.

Lower immunization rates raise concerns as children return to school this week, and the U.S. sees the highest number of measles cases since the early 1990s.

Federal agencies responsible for spelling out who should get vaccinated aren’t necessarily in sync, issuing seemingly contradictory recommendations. But insurers will likely cover the shots this year.

Throughout the country, pediatricians say anxious parents are concerned about access to routine childhood immunizations, especially those with children on Medicaid, which covers 4 in 10 U.S. kids.

The United States has had 1,319 confirmed cases of measles this year, according to the CDC. It’s the largest outbreak in the United States since 1992.

Dr. Preeti Jaggi says pediatricians have a duty to protect the Earth’s future for their young patients: 'It’s becoming more and more obvious that the environment is affecting health.

Patricia Horton, founder of the Georgia Center for Nursing Excellence, says that listening to people's personal concerns can help with issues like vaccine hesitancy.

A new dashboard from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene offers a detailed view of vaccine coverage across the city.

The new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices began their tenure by shifting posture from support for vaccine advancement to doubt about the safety and efficacy of well-established inoculations.

Some leading vaccine scientists are calling for more resources to research vaccine safety and support people with claims of injury — and asking Kennedy to step up.

The evidence that vaccines are beneficial remains overwhelming. Vaccines to prevent RSV in people 60 and older are performing admirably. And a Stanford study found vaccination against shingles reduced the risk of dementia.

The outbreak began after one relative living in metro Atlanta contracted measles abroad. The first case was confirmed in May, followed by a second family member earlier this month.

The new case involves a metro Atlanta resident who is related to a person who acquired measles abroad. Neither had been vaccinated.

Here's a Q&A with Dr. Maureen Miller, a researcher for the study, which found that in one year, vaccine uptake rose from 44% to 76% in target communities.

Countries that produced their own vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic had first dibs on the shots. While the U.S., home to Moderna and Pfizer, rolled out second doses of mRNA vaccines in 2021, hundreds of thousands of people in countries that didn’t manufacture vaccines died waiting.

A new Covid variant has been detected in international travelers who arrived to New York City airports.

Pregnant women who contracted Covid-19 were more likely to become severely ill and to be hospitalized than non-pregnant women of the same age and demographics.