The shingles vaccine may offer a protective effect against developing dementia, as well as “therapeutic potential” for those already diagnosed Getty The shingles vaccine may slow the progression of ...

In 2025, federal health agencies dismantled precedents in vaccine guidance, fracturing state-federal alignment and fueling concerns about public health guidance. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Ms. Interlandi writes about public health for Opinion. In the days before Christmas, as measles, whooping cough and influenza continued to spread and surge across the country, the Department of Health ...

The United States is expected to adopt the vaccine schedule used by Denmark, a much smaller country with universal health care. By Amelia Nierenberg and Maya Tekeli Amelia Nierenberg reported from ...

Sickness is surging across the United States following the holiday season, bringing thermometers and medicine to homes amid presents and Christmas dinner leftovers. New York state especially has been ...

Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, on Tuesday called the seasonal flu vaccine “controversial of late” and advised various Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) ...

It comes as the U.S. surpassed 2,000 measles cases for the 1st time in 33 years. Children who miss early vaccinations are far more likely to miss the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine by age 2, a ...

The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child—leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without ...

Dec. 29 (UPI) --A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel dominated by vaccine skeptics is signaling it will review the use of aluminum salts used in many vaccines during the coming year, ...

Stanford scientists have uncovered how mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can very rarely trigger heart inflammation in young men — and how that risk might be reduced. They found that the vaccines can spark a two ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If you’ve been hearing, seeing or experiencing coughs, sneezes and sniffles—you’re not the only one. Millions nationwide and thousands in New Mexico have come down with a bad virus ...

Before the pandemic, roughly half of counties had kindergarten vaccination rates high enough to prevent measles outbreaks. After the pandemic, many counties increased their vaccination rates, reaching ...