You can’t blame this one on the stork. After a brief baby bump early in the COVID-19 pandemic, birth rates in the US and other wealthy countries dropped as the public health emergency eased. That ...

One panelist accused the F.D.A. of withholding data on potential harms. The advisers also are reviewing research on vaccines given to pregnant women. By Apoorva Mandavilli Members of the federal ...

A model of a new vaccine targeting a family of coronaviruses that includes the virus that causes COVID-19. The image highlights pieces of several different viruses attached to a computer-designed ...

Eligible patients who are due for a COVID-19 vaccine may receive a call reminding them of the importance of getting protected and to schedule an appointment. DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens and the ...

Children and adolescents had higher risks of vascular and inflammatory diseases after a first COVID diagnosis, as well as a higher risk of rare myocarditis or pericarditis after a first COVID vaccine.

Some officials in the Trump administration are at odds with others who are helping shape vaccine policy over whether to remove COVID-19 vaccines from the U.S. market, according to a report from Axios.

In 2021, just months after the first COVID vaccines debuted, concern was growing about an exceedingly rare but sometimes deadly outcome of certain shots. Two related vaccines—one from AstraZeneca and ...

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 ...

Possible risk of autism in children. Dormant cancer cells awakening. Accelerating aging of the brain. Federal officials in May 2023 declared an end to the national COVID pandemic. But more than two ...

This winter's brutal flu season isn't over, and COVID-19 cases have risen recently too. But a new poll taken in recent weeks shows that vaccination against both viruses lags among people 50 and over, ...

The effectiveness of last season's COVID vaccines among immunocompetent adults reached 40% against hospitalization and 79% against invasive mechanical ventilation or death. Those levels of protection ...

ST. PAUL — A bill led by a Rochester lawmaker aims to tighten exemptions for the combined measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, ...