(NEXSTAR) – The map of flu activity across the United States continues to darken ... experts recommend most people get the flu vaccine, which can still help even if you do end up catching ...

Each night during the spring, scores of sparrows and warblers, wrens, tanagers and other birds swooped above the Great Lakes State ... vaccine production and upend the economy. Most flu vaccines ...

An epidemiologist makes the case that a rush of research to stop a swine flu outbreak led to an accidental lab release of an ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On June 11, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a slate of eight new members to serve ...

For years, federal health officials have told most Americans to expect annual updates to COVID-19 vaccines, similar to the annual flu shot ... criticized the United States’ “one-size-fits ...

When South Africa’s apartheid ended, I was in my mid-twenties. Only a fool would have denied then that the future looked uncertain. Nelson Mandela had forged a compromise with white South Africans, ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly ...

A highly transmissible new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is spreading in the United States, CDC data show.

Wastewater monitoring helps communities spot rising outbreaks of influenza, COVID, RSV, and more. Our writer gets her feet ...

The study hasn’t tested if the vaccine protects adult dairy cows from bird flu. The USDA reports 17 cattle herds have been infected in Idaho in May, the highest of any state in the last month.

President Trump said that Iran appeared to have rejected a key element of an American proposal aimed at breaking the deadlock ...