A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be protective against developing dementia. While there is currently no ...

Photo: Jordan Strauss/Associated Press/Brian Snyder/Reuters Can Robert F. Kennedy Jr. get his vaccine message straight? Mere days after declaring vaccines are the “most effective way to prevent ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doctor in charge of monitoring reports of adverse COVID-19 vaccine reactions has been accused by a Republican senator of mishandling and possibly ...

“This vaccine could potentially eliminate breast cancer.” ------ Update made on Apr. 10, 2025 ------ The story was updated with the sad news of Jennifer Davis' passing on April 13, 2024 and ...

The flu vaccine is recommended annually for all Americans 6 months and older, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — but a new study from Cleveland Clinic suggests that it might ...

"We encourage people to get the measles vaccine," Kennedy told CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook on Tuesday during his Make America Healthy Again tour in Arizona, marking the ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to have it both ways when it comes to the measles vaccine.

A new large-scale study conducted by the Cleveland Clinic on the effectiveness of the 2024–2025 influenza vaccine shows that those who took the shot had a 27 percent higher risk of infection compared ...

April 8 (UPI) --Some 8,700 service members who were fired by the Biden administration for refusing to get COVID-19 vaccines are invited back to their former positions. "We're committed to doing ...

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

Want to reduce your risk of dementia? Consider getting the shingles vaccine. A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that a shingles vaccine reduces the risk of dementia. Researchers ...

Just last week, the US Food and Drug Administration delayed a decision on full approval of Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine even though it was on track to be cleared, leaving many public health ...