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Up-to-date vaccination remains the most effective way to prevent severe COVID-19 illness, new research from the World Health ...

Between 2022 and 2024, covid-19 killed roughly 100,000 Americans annually, new research by CDC scientists shows.

COVID booster vaccinations reduced the likelihood of hospitalization related to COVID in patients with autoimmune diseases, with monovalent and bivalent booster vaccines showing 38% and 32% ...

On the treatment side, more people with COVID should receive outpatient antiviral therapies that prevent hospitalization and ...

The immune system’s first encounter with a virus or vaccine establishes a “starting template” that shapes its response to new ...

European nations like Denmark and the U.K. have kept new cases of hepatitis B low. Denmark recorded no cases of ...

Florida ended 2025 with 2,413 residents dying from COVID-19 after the state passed the 100,000 fatality milestone several ...

It’s fall and time to consider receiving the newly updated COVID booster to better protect against the continually mutating ...

The first dose of the COVID vaccine AZD1222 is associated with an increased risk for thrombotic thrombocytopenia syndrome; however, no such association is observed with any dose of BNT162b2.

At least 11 million people have gotten sick and 5,000 people have died from the flu this season. Here's what Michigan is ...