For the first time since Oct. 2022, the New York State Department of Health confirmed that polio had been detected in local wastewater from Rockland County....
You’ve probably heard a lot about how important your immune system is, especially over the past few years. Phrases like “herd immunity” and “immunocompromised” proliferated in...
Getting one annual shot could potentially be more palatable to pandemic-weary people, Dr. Russo says. The vaccine rollout has been “haphazard,” he explains, and the public has often...
U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a simplified approach for...
Moderna shared exciting news this week: The biotechnology company has an experimental respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine in the works, and its efficacy looks promising so far. According...
The only HIV vaccine in a late-stage trial has failed, researchers announced Wednesday, dealing a significant blow to the effort to control the global HIV epidemic...
New York saw its first dip in new flu cases for the first time in weeks, a bit of good news amid the “tridemic” threat of...
A triple threat of overlapping illnesses — COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza — is overwhelming healthcare systems and leaving Americans sick this holiday season....
The fact that some parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children isn’t new, unfortunately, but it’s increasingly concerning. “In otherwise healthy children, there’s absolutely no...
The potential risks of COVID reinfection are very real, regardless of your vaccination status, new research suggests. Having COVID more than once boosts your risk of...
