House Democrats on the Oversight Committee sent a letter to the CDC chief of staff on Thursday, demanding answers over recent ...

A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...

The US Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to Moderna's Spikevax vaccine and the company is hopeful of releasing the updated version for the 2025-26 flu season ...

From the outset of the Trump administration, bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has flown rather conspicuously — and in fact ...

The agency says the decision comes after a steady drop in cases and no new human infections reported since February. The emergency declaration, first issued on April 4, 2024, helped the CDC ramp up ...

House Oversight Committee Democrats are demanding a briefing with staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly remade ...

A: Yes, the immigrant detention facility in Florida, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” is being “funded largely” by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Shelter and Services Program, Homeland Security ...

Shares of GSK rose on Thursday after the company announced it had begun shipping its seasonal flu vaccines, Fluarix and ...

About seven-in-ten Americans say insurance companies have too much health policy influence, but partisans disagree on the CDC ...

Climate change is making tick-borne illnesses more common, which makes tick prevention strategies even more critical.

People of a certain age may remember Merthiolate and Mercurochrome in the household medicine chest. Whenever someone skinned a knee or scraped an elbow, one of these topical antiseptics was often ...

The full approval of Spikevax covers children aged six months through 11 years who are at increased risk for severe COVID-19, transitioning the vaccine from emergency use to full licensure.