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 Moderna spokesperson said the company is aware of the lawsuit and will defend itself. Spokespeople for Pfizer, BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A new study published in Science Translational Medicine has demonstrated a new mechanism by which mRNA COVID vaccines can cause heart inflammation, or myocarditis, in young men. While rare, ...

The risk of a child dying from a COVID-19 vaccine is far lower than dying in a car accident. COVID-19 vaccines are effective in preventing hospitalizations, urgent care visits and long COVID in ...

Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News.

One of the most widely known risks linked to the COVID-19 vaccine is myocarditis, especially in young males — and now a new Stanford study has shed some light on why this rare effect can occur.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A real-world study examined the effectiveness of the 2024-2025 vaccines among children U.S. The vaccines were 76 ...

Pregnant people who get a COVID vaccine are dramatically less likely to experience severe symptoms of the disease or to give birth prematurely, according to a comprehensive new study published today ...

As regulatory uncertainty around COVID vaccines continues to swirl, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showcases the benefits of the immunizations among children.

COVID-19 vaccines sharply reduced children’s risk of emergency department and urgent care visits in the first six months after vaccination, according to a Dec. 11 report from the Centers for Disease ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating whether the COVID-19 vaccines were associated with any deaths across all age ranges. “FDA is doing a thorough investigation, across multiple age ...