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07 Apr

Flu Shot Offers Clear Protection for Kids, New Study Finds

The flu shot reduced kids’ hospitalizations and outpatient visits for seasonal flu by up to 60% from 2021 to 2024, according to new research.

29 Oct

COVID, Flu and Other Viral Infections Can Dramatically Raise Heart Attack and Stroke Risk, New Study Finds

New research shows common viruses increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, especially in the weeks following initial infection.

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THURSDAY, April 30, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Nasal spray flu vaccines appear to work differently from traditional jabs, creating a battlefield in the nose for invading viruses, a new study says.

The FluMist vaccine triggers an immune response directly in nasal tissue in adults, researchers reported April 29 in the journal

WEDNESDAY, April 22, 2026 (HealthDay News) — A new effort to prepare for future bird flu outbreaks is moving forward, despite a major funding setback.

The American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna has initiated a large clinical trial around a vaccine designed to protect people against

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  • WEDNESDAY, April 22, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Flu shots will no longer be required for every U.S. service member.

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that troops can now choose whether ...

    MONDAY, April 13, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Nearly 12,000 people in the U.K. who received a first dose of the MenB vaccine will now be offered a second shot starting next week, after a deadly meningitis outbreak linked to a university in Kent.

    The outbreak led to two deaths and 19 confirmed cases in a short period, according to NHS Kent.

    MONDAY, April 13, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) could soon have a new focus after officials changed the rules that determine who can serve on it.

    The updated rules were approved by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and posted in a new

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  • FRIDAY, April 10, 2026 (HealthDay News) — A health report on COVID-19 vaccines has been delayed after concerns about how the study was conducted.

    The report, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that COVID vaccines reduced emergency room visits and hospital stays last winter.

    But release of the report was postponed by

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  • THURSDAY, April 9, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Officials in Bangladesh are scrambling to vaccinate young kids as a measles outbreak spreads quickly and has turned deadly.

    More than 100 kids in the South Asian country have died in less than a month, as cases cont...

    WEDNESDAY, April 8, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The influenza vaccine can significantly reduce the risk of a flu-related heart attack or stroke, even among folks who become infected after vaccination, a new study reports.

    The systemic inflammation caused by a flu infection is known to increase sh...

    TUESDAY, April 7, 2026 (HealthDay News) — A high-powered flu shot might help reduce seniors’ risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says.

    Seniors who got a high-dose flu vaccine had a nearly 55% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s, researchers reported earlier this month in the jo...

    TUESDAY, March 24, 2026 (HealthDay News) — A new vaccine meant to prevent Lyme disease may be one step closer to approval.

    Drugmaker Pfizer and French vaccine company Valneva sa...

    FRIDAY, March 20, 2026 (HealthDay News) — A meningitis vaccine does not protect against gonorrhea spread between men, a new clinical trial has concluded.

    Experts had hoped that a meningococcal B vaccine called 4CMenB might prevent the spread of gonorrhea,...

    TUESDAY, March 17, 2026 (HealthDay News) — A federal judge has stopped a major effort to change the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule.

    The ruling, issued Monday in Massachusetts, blocks U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to

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  • MONDAY, March 16, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Flu activity in the United States is finally slowing down, but health experts say this year’s flu vaccine didn't offer as much protection as officials hoped.

    New data from the ...

    MONDAY, March 16, 2026 (HealthDay News) — You’re waiting for a vaccination. The person ahead of you stumbles out, groaning about how painful the shot was.

    Could hearing that make your own injection hurt worse?

    Yes, a new study says.

    What others say about an experience – be it a vaccination, or a job interview, or a college course – can shape how it actu...

    TUESDAY, March 10, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Travelers heading overseas may want to check their vaccination records first.

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urges people to make sure their polio vaccines are up to date before traveling internationally.

    The warning comes after the virus...

    MONDAY, March 9, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Even a slight decrease in measles vaccinations could spark a seven-fold increase in new cases, a new report says.

    Just a 1% annual drop in the rate of MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) childhood jabs could prompt 17,000 measles cases, 4,000 hospitalizations and 36 preventable deaths each year, concludes a new report from the Common Health Coalition...

    THURSDAY, Feb. 26, 2026 (HealthDay News) — A group of 15 states is suing the Trump administration over recent changes to federal vaccine guidelines for kids.

    The lawsuit, announced this week, aims to reverse a decision made in January that reduced the number of diseases kids are routinely vaccinated against from 17 to 11. 

    The suit also challenges the removal and replacem...

    WEDNESDAY, Feb. 25, 2026 (HealthDay News) — If you avoid getting vaccinated because you dread one needle stick after another, there’s hopeful news from scientists at five major U.S. universities.

    They’ve taken a major step toward developing a nasal spray that could one day protect against everything from

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  • TUESDAY, Feb. 24, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Cervical cancer rates are plummeting in states with higher rates of HPV vaccination, a new study reports.

    Overall, cervical cancers have declined by 27% among young women in the years since the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine became availabl...

    THURSDAY, Feb. 19, 2026 (HealthDay News) — In a sudden reversal, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to review Moderna’s experimental mRNA influenza vaccine. 

    The move comes just one week after the agency refused to evaluate the company’s application, a decision that sent shockwaves through the biotech industry.

    The initial rejection centere...

    THURSDAY, Feb. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a major blow to vaccine development, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will not review Moderna’s application for the first mRNA-based flu shot.

    Dr. Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, told the company it lacked an "adequate and well-controlled" study, <...

    WEDNESDAY, Feb. 11, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Two major medical groups will begin reviewing vaccine safety and effectiveness after major changes at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have raised alarms among experts.

    The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Vaccine Integrity Project at the University of Minnesota announced Tuesday that they are creating an...

    TUESDAY, Feb. 10, 2026 (HealthDay News) — As measles outbreaks spread across the United States, a top Trump administration health official is urging families to protect themselves by getting vaccinated.

    “Take the vaccine, please,”

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  • MONDAY, Feb. 2, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The flu is hitting kids hard this season.

    So far, 52 kids have died from the flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Jan. 30. About 9 in 10 had not r...

    TUESDAY, Jan. 27, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Many children’s doctors say they will follow vaccine guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) narrowed its own recommendations this month.

    On Monday, the AAP updated its recommendations for what shots kids should get. While the changes were small, including ...

    TUESDAY, Jan. 27, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The United States is more vulnerable to future outbreaks, pandemics and health crises due to a breakdown in federal disease tracking, a new study says.

    Nearly half of once-routinely updated health surveillance databases maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stopped or delayed updates in 2025, researchers rep...

    THURSDAY, Jan. 15, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Health officials are struggling to contain two growing measles outbreaks in the U.S., as new cases continue to climb weeks after holiday travel and gatherings helped the virus spread.

    In South Carolina, officials co...

    TUESDAY, Jan. 6, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Federal health officials have decided to narrow the list of vaccines routinely recommended for U.S. children, a move that has outraged public health experts.

    The updated childhood immunization schedule —  released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — pares the number of diseases prevented by s...

    FRIDAY, Jan. 2, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The holiday season brought a massive spike in influenza cases across the U.S. 

    New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that the virus...

    MONDAY, Dec. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 vaccines given to children last fall helped keep many out of emergency rooms (ER) and urgent care, new data shows.

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that COVID vaccines reduced the risk of ER visits by 76% in kids under age 4 and by 56% in kids ages 5 to 17 during the first six months after vaccinatio...

    THURSDAY, Dec. 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal regulators have begun a safety review of two RSV medicines used to protect infants, even though no safety problems have been reported.

    The review covers Beyfortus (from Sanofi and AstraZeneca) and Enflonsia (from Merck), both monocl...

    THURSDAY, Dec. 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal officials say the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing reports of possible deaths in adults and children following COVID-19 vaccination.

    “FDA is doing a thorough investigation, across multiple age groups, of deaths potenti...

    TUESDAY, Dec. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A confidential internal memo from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is creating new controversy around vaccine safety after an agency official said the COVID-19 vaccine may have played a role in the deaths of at least 10 children.

    The memo, which was obtained by The New York Times, has not been released publicly or reviewed...

    FRIDAY, Nov. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine worked better than a standard flu shot in a large Phase 3 trial, researchers reported.

    The results, published Nov. 19 in The

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  • THURSDAY, Oct. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — You may have seen recent news stories reporting that a national data investigation found that routine childhood vaccination is slipping across much of the United States, leaving classrooms and daycares with growing...

    MONDAY, Oct. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Babies can be safely administered antibody protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) after birth even if their moms had RSV vaccination while pregnant, a new study says.

    An antibody shot called nirse...

    TUESDAY, Oct. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The acting head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is calling on vaccine makers to create separate measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shots, though public health experts saying there’s no scien...

    TUESDAY, Oct. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has dropped its recommendation that all Americans receive routine COVID-19 shots, leaving the decision up to patients and doctors.

    The shift follows new guidance from a panel of vaccine advisers a...

    WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is protecting women from the cervical-cancer-causing virus — including those who don’t get the jab, a new study says.

    Depending on which vaccine they received, HPV infections fell by 76% to 98...

    MONDAY, Sept. 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new federal vaccine panel appointed by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has recommended tighter restrictions on COVID-19 shots.

    The committee voted unanimously Friday to...

    FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Top vaccine advisers hand-selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Thursday to limit the use of a combination shot that protects against me...

    FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Four Western states are taking a different approach from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines for COVID-19, flu and RSV.

    California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington — now working together as the West Coast Health Alliance — issued joint guidance Wednesday encouraging broader vaccine use than what&rs...

    MONDAY, Sept. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Health workers in southern Kasai province have started giving Ebola vaccines as officials race to contain the latest outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

    So far, at least 68 suspected cases and 16 deaths have been report...

    FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — RSV can make even healthy, full-term babies sick enough to land in the hospital or require intensive care, a new study says.

    In fact, more than half of RSV-infected infants and children who required intensive care or prolonged hospitalization were born at t...

    THURSDAY, Sept. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Florida may soon become the first state in the U.S. to eliminate all vaccine mandates, a major shift in health policy that may increase risk of disease outbreaks.

    The plan was announced this week by State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who described current vaccine rules a...

    WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A single dose of RSV vaccine might protect seniors for two cold and flu seasons in a row, a new study says.

    Vaccination reduced seniors’ risk of hospitalization by 58% during two RSV seasons, researchers reported Aug. 30 in the

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  • TUESDAY, Sept. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — CVS and Walgreens are changing where and how they offer COVID-19 vaccines this season as they work to comply with state laws and current U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.

    Both pharmacy chains say vaccine access will now v...

    FRIDAY, Aug. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The shingles vaccine not only protects against the painful skin infection, but also might provide heart health benefits, a new study says.

    Shingles vaccination also appears to lower a person’s risk of heart attack and stroke, according to an evidence review presented Thursday at the European Society of Cardiology’s annual meeting ...

    THURSDAY, Aug. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for the fall season but has restricted who can receive them.

    This marks the most limited federal policy since the shots first became available.

    The updated vaccines from Moderna,

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  • WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It is vital that people with heart disease get vaccinated against common infectious diseases like COVID-19, influenza and

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  • August 27, 2025
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