The COVID pandemic ushered mRNA vaccines into the spotlight, and the technology has even greater potential. Here’s what to ...

Vaccines boost the immune system's ability to fight off diseases. Vaccines undergo rigorous testing to ensure safety and effectiveness. Widespread vaccination contributes to herd immunity, protecting ...

West Coast states are teaming up to issue their own vaccine guidelines in the face of rapid changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. The federal ...

Two of the vaccines we have for COVID-19 have the distinction of being the first mRNA vaccines to see widespread use in ...

COVID-19 vaccines lower the risk of getting sick, seriously ill or dying from the disease. But how do the different types of COVID-19 vaccines work? Each COVID-19 vaccine causes the immune system to ...

Gronvall reminded the audience there are currently two vaccines that do work to prevent cancer: the hepatitis B vaccine given ...

A vaccine combined with Keytruda is associated with a 49% reduction in the risk of recurrence or death. Among patients with advanced melanoma, long-term data have shown that a personalized mRNA cancer ...

Vaccines have traditionally worked by teaching the immune system to recognize a specific virus or bacterium—in effect, showing it a wanted poster for a single suspect. But what if one vaccine could ...

The adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine RSVPreF3 was immunogenic in lung transplant (LT) and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (alloHCT) recipients. No vaccine-associated ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisors have set their sights on aluminum adjuvants in vaccines as part of their review of the U.S. pediatric vaccine schedule. While the concept of ...

A 4-year-old boy picks out a bandage before getting vaccinated in San Jose, California, in 2022. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center ...

Fentanyl overdoses can happen in minutes, and the usual tools respond after the damage is already underway. A proposed vaccine tries a different approach: keep fentanyl tied up in the bloodstream so ...