People with long-term health conditions, including asthma, diabetes, and heart disease, are at high risk for flu complications. They need to get the flu shot to reduce the risk of further problems.

Measles outbreaks. A canceled effort to develop a bird flu vaccine. An infectious new COVID variant and changing federal guidance about who should get boosted. In recent weeks, drama in D.C. has ...

CSL Seqirus has agreed to provide 665,000 doses of a bird flu vaccine to the European Commission as part of the EU’s efforts to prepare for a potential outbreak of the disease, with an option to ...

A panel of key government advisers appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will weigh in on an infrequently used vaccine preservative that has been wrongly linked to ...

A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a discussion and vote on ...

There is good evidence from clinical trials the flu vaccine can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke, especially if someone already has heart problems. We aren’t clear exactly how this works.

This vaccine was approved under Vilsack’s leadership, as he served as USDA Secretary from 2009 to 2017, and then again from 2021 until Jan. 2025. Vaccine fate.

CDC vaccine advisers to vote on thimerosal in flu shots at first meeting of new panel Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via CNN Newsource ...

(CNN) — A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a discussion and vote on ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, the first step in an anticipated global rollout that could protect millions – although it’s ...