Officials recommend that children get their first dose of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine between 12 and 15 months of age. Two doses of the vaccine are 97% effective against the measles virus.

Two long-planned vaccine meetings — one at the US Centers for Disease Control and another at the US Food and Drug Administration — have now been disrupted under the watch of US Health and ...

The Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly canceled an annual meeting of its advisers to update next season's influenza vaccines, an adviser on the panel and multiple officials tell CBS News ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a known vaccine skeptic, included vaccines on his list of things to investigate to see if they have contributed to chronic diseases.

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles outbreak Yet during a press briefing that same day, Robert F.

Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa is safe and ...

The MMR vaccine protects you from measles, mumps, and rubella. All three of these diseases spread easily, so it's important to get this vaccine. (Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images) Adults who were ...

Could a cancer vaccine soon be a reality? Beth and Neil discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. And I’m Beth. In our lifetime, 1 in 5 people will be affected by cancer, a disease where ...

COVID-19 vaccine sales have declined, but other vaccines are still growth drivers for several companies. Top vaccine stocks for investors to consider include Pfizer and Moderna. Other vaccine ...

As part of a new $1 billion plan to address bird flu in poultry and lower egg prices across the country, US secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins announced Wednesday that the Department of ...

Kennedy Jr. is calling for all senators who voted against his appointment to take “all 72 vaccines” in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) schedule. Kennedy, a vaccine critic ...

RNA vaccines are composed of the nucleic acid RNA, which encode antigen genes of an infectious agent. When administered to host cells, the RNA is translated into protein antigens that elicit ...