Fentanyl does not need much room to kill. A dose the size of a few grains of salt can slow breathing until it stops. The drug ...

As flu cases are surging across the United States, here's what to know about whether or not you can still get the vaccine.

Vaccines work, actually. But that’s not all. Depending on the specific vaccine we’re talking about, that jab might also prevent cancer, heal herpes lesions, help you keep most of your marbles, prevent ...

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 ...

A vaccine in development would be the first proactive treatment for overdose and fentanyl addiction, if approved.

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 ...

Vaccine safety monitoring in the US is a multilayered process that combines passive and active functions, as well as expert ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sievers is a vaccine researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and the NIH Vaccine Research Center. I’m a vaccine researcher. And I’m terrified of needles. It’s not something I’m ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Readers said my infection was proof the vaccines don’t work. An infectious disease expert told me I might have ...

The elderly population has more than doubled between 1980 and 2020. How do the elderly know vaccines work? Because they’ve ...