"Political directives should not prevent individuals from seeking safe and effective care that they desire and deserve," ...

The situation was worse for adults: only 8% of Black adults had received the updated COVID-19 vaccine, compared to 15% of white adults, according to CDC data from November 2023. The infection rate was ...

The FDA is defending a decision to restrict access to a newly-approved low dose COVID vaccine from Moderna that the company ...

For children, yes, the CDC’s “shared decision-making” guidance preserves the status quo in which Medicaid and U.S.

The US Department of Health and Human Services, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has recently made significant changes ...

The health and human services secretary said that annual COVID shots are no longer recommended for healthy children.

The CDC will no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women and healthy children. Updated COVID-19 shots will ...

There is no “the” vaccine. There are at least two mRNA vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer) and a number of different non-mRNA ...

The FDA expects that randomized, controlled trial data on clinical outcomes will be needed before COVID-19 vaccines can be approved for patients who are 6 months to 64 years of age and do not have ...

The FDA will encourage new clinical trials on the widely used vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults.