vaccines

The panel unanimously recommended certain flu vaccines for seniors, whose weakened immune systems don’t respond as well to traditional shots.

About 35,000 U.S. children entered kindergarten for the 2020-21 school year without evidence they were vaccinated for extremely contagious diseases, the CDC reports.

Legislators in Kansas are pushing bills to expand exemptions for school vaccines, allowing religious exemptions for all vaccine requirements without families having to provide any proof of their beliefs. Similar bills are being introduced around the nation.

On Gulf Coast Life, we talk about the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System with Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, captain of the U.S. Public Health Service and deputy director of the CDC Immunization Safety Office.

The promising antiviral drugs to treat COVID can halt hospitalizations and deaths, but only if they’re given to patients within three to five days of their first symptoms, a narrow window many people won’t meet. Here’s why.

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a professor with the University of Florida College of Medicine. says vaccination "has been treated as a religion" and is not the only path to good health.

A recent movie produced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine group tries to capitalize on the COVID-19 pandemic, the racial justice movement and renewed interest in the history of medical racism.

The market is risky for over-the-counter COVID tests. Demand has plunged dramatically since the height of the winter surge and may not rebound as more people are vaccinated.

Surgeon General Scott Rivkees says he does not know when additional “first doses” of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will be sent or how many doses would be in a potential future delivery.

Drugmakers will walk away with with massive profits, but much of the pioneering work on mRNA vaccines was done with government money.