Since being sworn in as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr has repeatedly tried to undermine public trust in vaccines. His agency recently took steps to slow down the ...

In a study published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine, the mRNA-1010 mRNA influenza vaccine prevented disease in adults 50 years and older more effectively than standard ...

The billions of mRNA vaccine doses that went into arms worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic build on clinical trial data confirming the safety and effectiveness of a vaccine technology now poised to ...

The flu might be a relatively common illness, but it’s nothing to mess around with. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that in a typical year, the flu kills tens of ...

In the fight against COVID-19, there is some reassuring good news. In a major new review, The Lancet (30 June 2026) concludes that currently approved mRNA vaccines are both safe and highly effective ...

A massive, global review of mRNA vaccines has shown that they are very effective and safe. Reporting in The Lancet, researchers used data from laboratory experiments, clinical trials, and public ...

Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was still a long and idiosyncratic process ...

In 2000, the United States declared that measles was eliminated, in large part, due to the MMR vaccine. US President Donald Trump and key allies voiced opposition Sunday to drastically curbing the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines sit in boxes in May 2025 in Miami. A new review published in The Lancet ...