A group of experts who advise the US Food and Drug Administration on its vaccine decisions voted unanimously Thursday to make a broad recommendation about which lineage of the coronavirus should be included in this year’s Covid-19 vaccines,

In a major policy shift, federal health officials anticipate the shots will be made available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults who have one or more risk factors that make them more vulnerable to severe COVID-19.

Frank DeStefano, MD, MPH, was there when the CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) first came online in 1990, when the agency convinced four health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to contribute data to assess vaccine safety.

The Trump administration said Tuesday it will limit approval for seasonal COVID-19 shots to seniors and others at high risk pending more data on everyone else — raising questions about whether some people who want a vaccine this fall will be able to get one.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it plans to require new clinical trials for approval of annual COVID-19 boosters for healthy Americans under age 65, effectively limiting them to older adults and those at risk of developing severe illness.

A rehab firm will pay a cash settlement to an occupational therapist it fired when the worker declined a COVID-19 vaccination.

Medical authorities worldwide have established the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine against chickenpox, despite US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that the shot is not used in Europe.

Amanda Johnson, a mother of five and Marine spouse, is fighting the military to prevent her family from being separated during an overseas permanent change of station to Peru.