Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal ...

Last flu season left health experts shocked and worried. Nearly 200 children died from the flu, and here’s the heartbreaking truth most of them could have been saved by a simple vaccination. Dr ...

Moderna’s mRNA-based flu and covid-19 vaccine could provide the best of both worlds—if it’s actually ever approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Flu vaccines really do prevent the flu in infants, children, and adults. WebMD explains the reasons to get a flu shot each year, what kind to get, and who shouldn’t get one.

Health experts urge everyone to get flu shots as flu season begins and gatherings increase during the holidays."The flu shot helps prevent against the flu or influenza and that's a highly ...

The CDC did not recommend flu vaccines for everyone over 6 months old until the 2010-2011 season, but it has recommended flu vaccines for adults over age 65 since 1961. Flu vaccine uptake for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you missed the early fall push for flu and COVID-19 vaccines, it’s not too late. Health officials say it’s important to get vaccinated ahead of the holidays, when ...

Vaccination rates for the flu, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are low for adults in the U.S. so far this season, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Myth: The flu vaccine won’t protect me from the flu. Dr. Sunil Joshi, the City of Jacksonville’s Chief Health Officer, helped launch the #FluVaxJax campaign with the Duval County Medical ...

Just 35% of Wisconsinites got their flu vaccine in the 2022-23 flu season, according to DHS. That's down from 44% in the 2020-21 season, which was the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and saw the ...

This year's flu vaccine reduced the risk of hospitalization in the Southern Hemisphere but wasn't as effective as the one used in the prior season, a new CDC study found.

Vaccination rates among children for flu have been declining in recent years. About 53.9% of children were vaccinated against influenza this season, about 2.2% points lower than last season and 8. ...