On one of the final days of the Biden Administration, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $590 million in support for Moderna to speed the development of mRNA vaccines ...

In a weekly update today, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 23 more measles cases, bringing the national total for the year to 1,356 cases, the most since the United ...

In what experts say will hobble pandemic preparedness, US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. yesterday announced the dismantling of the country's mRNA vaccine-development ...

Though H5N1 avian flu outbreaks on US dairy farms have declined sharply over the past several months, scientists are still sorting out how the virus spreads on farms, and new findings from California ...

Today in JAMA Network Open, University of Michigan-led research suggests that the US 2023-24 mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were cost-effective for people older than 65 years and in certain situations for ...

Adults 65 and older hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have higher rates of poor outcomes such as certain heart conditions, longer hospital stays, transfer to an intensive care unit ...

Wisconsin health officials have confirmed the state's first measles cases this year. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services and Oconto County Public Health said in a news release last week that ...

Although many studies on air-cleaning technologies conclude that they prevent the indoor spread of respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and influenza, only a small fraction examine whether they ...

Receiving a prior COVID-19 vaccine did not prevent the immune system from producing protective responses to either Delta or Omicron virus strains, according to a new study in Nature Immunology. The ...

Pediatric hospitals across the United States saw a surge in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the summer of 2021 and in the fall and winter of 2022, which many clinicians considered to be a rebound ...

Two new studies add to the growing body of literature on the lasting effects of long COVID. In the first, a study of 114 patients with long COVID in Israel, researchers found high rates of depressive ...

Today in Nature Communications, Canadian researchers highlight diagnostic challenges with the World Health Organization's clinical definition of long COVID, with a study showing that over a third of ...