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Studies in West Africa said the vaccines developed by Johnson & Johnson and Merck & Co appear to be safe in children.

China raced to vaccinate its most vulnerable people on Thursday in anticipation of waves of COVID-19 infections, with some analysts expecting the death toll to soar after it eased strict controls that had kept the pandemic at bay for three years.

Sir Pascal Soriot was speaking after he was knighted by the King at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.

The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines have played a large role in preventing deaths and severe infections from COVID-19. But researchers are still in the process of developing alternative approaches to vaccines to improve their effectiveness, including how they’re administered. Immunologist and microbiologist Michael W. Russell of the University at…

Jab led to reduction in risk of cancer coming back or death in patients with stage three and four melanoma

Moderna has partnered with another drug company to produce a personalised vaccine against melanoma for people at risk of dying.

NPR asked a handful of public health experts how to approach a holiday season with not one but three respiratory pathogens helping fill hospitals: COVID, the flu and RSV.

Health authorities are recommending that people take a different vaccine from their primary course, a practice several studies have shown provides better protection

LOS ANGELES — A one-two punch of COVID-19 and the flu is striking California, sickening residents — some so severely they’ve had to go to the hospital — interrupting daily life and threatening to upend holiday plans.