Growing research suggests that the shingles vaccine may offer health benefits beyond preventing shingles. A new study ...

A shingles vaccine might double as a powerful heart protector. In people already at high risk, it cut major cardiac events by 46% and deaths by an impressive 66% within a year. Scientists think ...

Students and older teens have not been vaccinated against the strain that has caused the outbreak of cases in Kent.

Many kids are scared of getting needles, and this can stop them getting vaccinations that protect that against the flu. Less ...

Many vaccines confer surprising knock-on, or indirect, health benefits when they have been put into widespread use.

Koytak is a sociologist and visiting assistant professor at the University of Mississippi, specializing in public health, race and inequality. When the first Covid-19 vaccines were developed, I felt ...

New vaccines are often evaluated in trials in which some participants receive a placebo. But not all studies can be designed this way. By Teddy Rosenbluth The Department of Health and Human Services ...

Dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, affects millions of people every year across Asia, Africa and Latin America. And it's ...