As part of a person's first line of defense against viruses and other microbes that cause illness and disease, a whole network of proteins and other molecules detect and respond to intruders, which ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Ness Ziona have used the platform ...

Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles ...

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

Immunizations “are not all good or bad,” says the chair of the overhauled panel.

Something extraordinary — and unsettling — is unfolding inside the federal government’s public health apparatus. Earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's new vaccine advisory committee returned to work Thursday, and the panel may vote on proposals about ...

A new multi-state study led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) VISION Network—including Regenstrief ...

A well-known example is the vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), a virus that can cause cervical cancer. A single dose of the vaccine offers long-term protection.

RFK Jr. recently claimed that the MMR vaccine “contains a lot of aborted fetus debris and DNA particles.” While the rubella virus in the shot is grown using fetal cells, the vaccine does not ...

And it's so self-defeating for our country and globally as well," says Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "It's absolutely dangerous." ...

The scientific breakthroughs of inoculation and the vaccine allowed many countries to become virtually smallpox-free — but not all countries. In fact, those 300 to 500 million deaths in the 20th ...