From inoculations against polio and smallpox to protections from measles and tetanus, vaccines are critical health care tools that have saved more than 150 million lives in the past 50 years. Rarely, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its Covid vaccine guidance Monday to recommend Covid shots for people 65 and older and only after they consult doctors or pharmacists. The CDC ...

The CDC's panel voted last month to recommend COVID shots be a personal choice. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its immunization schedule on Monday, dropping the universal ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Chelsea Cirruzzo is a Washington correspondent at STAT, where she ...

A recent report from Santé publique France shows a sharp rise in suspected COVID-related emergency department visits among adults during the week of September 15-21, 2025 (week 37), particularly ...

Getting a COVID booster could save your life, even if you’ve had multiple prior infections and vaccinations. A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday said it had officially recommended updated coronavirus vaccines, creating a new system to get a shot that’s slightly more complicated than in ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) accepted an advisory panel’s recommendation Monday that people can get vaccinated for COVID-19 after consulting with a health provider. Last ...

As the respiratory illness season begins, COVID cases have remained relatively under control in the United States into the beginning of fall. While the United States by and large is experiencing ...

Just in time for respiratory virus season, a highly transmissible COVID-19 strain is fueling a wave of infections across the US. The XFG variant, informally known as “Stratus,” has been driving up ...

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" ...