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With fall, and by extension, respiratory illness season, underway, COVID-19 cases have continued to fluctuate nationwide. Some regions of the United States are experiencing "very high" and "high" ...

Confirmed flu cases among adults and children across Northern Ireland have more than trebled in the last two weeks.

COVID-19 cases remained relatively steady week-over-week in late August, though data from states showed "very high" viral activity at the end of the month, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Dr. Vinay Prasad, the director of the FDA's vaccine division, did not provide data to back the claim in a memo sent to staff.

Food and Drug Administration officials say they will ratchet up requirements for vaccine studies, citing concerns about COVID ...

The FDA approved updated fall COVID vaccines this week with significant new restrictions; however, those criteria won't be the only barrier to access, since pharmacists' ability to vaccinate in some ...

VAERS, the Vaccine Safety Datalink, clinical investigators in the U.S. and their European counterparts detected that these vaccines did turn out to cause blood clotting. In April 2021, the FDA ...

Makary, a former professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, explained to “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine that as ...

By 2025, more than 13 billion doses of the vaccine are estimated to have been administered globally, saving untold millions ...

Researchers identified 619 hospital-based bacterial and fungal outbreaks in 13 countries from 2020 through March 2024, and ...

Covid inquiry latest: UK’s pandemic response ‘too little, too late’, says inquiry chair - Damning report finds more than 20,000 lives could have been spared over spring and summer 2020 had restriction ...