A study today in the New England Journal of Medicine discusses a phase 3 randomized, controlled trial of GSK's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine in pregnant women that was stopped early owing ...

President Donald Trump is calling to "break up" the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which would require more visits and shots, instead of using a two-dose regimen to deliver the three ...

Definitive proof of smallpox was found in the remains of two people who lived in the Inca Empire during the start of Spanish ...

Today during general remarks, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, of the World Health Organization (WHO) said the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track ...

Welcome to our biweekly series in partnership with CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. I (Izzy) have been watching a lot of John Oliver lately, and I admit that writing this week’s issue feels a ...

A Public Health Alerts report today highlights almost 600 cases of silicosis—an incurable lung disease caused by inhaling silica particles—in workers making stone countertops in California over a span ...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) released a joint statement yesterday saying President ...

In total, 17% of children and 28.2% of adults were vaccinated. For children, the vaccine was 51% effective against flu-related hospital stays and 54% effective against ED/UC visits. Vaccine ...

Yesterday, in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump described what he believed happens to an American infant at a routine well visit. He said he had seen proof of a vaccination the size of a bottle ...

The vaccine maker said its investigational mRNA norovirus vaccine did not meet statistical criteria for early success.

A national retrospective cohort study of more than 2.5 million children found no association between receiving the measles, ...

In the study, IMD infections were associated with significant illness and death. In all, 43% of patients were admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) and 50% required intubation and mechanical ...