The Food and Drug Administration has issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the upcoming ...

The flu season, one of the worst in years, has reached its peak and is improving, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday ...

On Thursday, the CDC published data showing that the flu vaccine was between 63% and 78% effective at preventing hospitalization among children this season and between 41% and 55% effective at ...

This season's influenza vaccine may have been a poor match to a strain of the flu virus that caused many infections this winter, early data released by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

In response to NPR, a spokesperson for the CDC listed seven emergency responses that are currently active — such as measles in Texas, influenza A/H5N1 and mpox — but did not answer other ...

As the CDC likes to say about the influenza vaccine, it turns wild into mild, to make the point that it reduces the severity of the illness rather than being able to prevent each and every illness.

While the basic information about flu vaccination remains on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website ... the benefits of the flu vaccine, including the potential for less ...

Unconfirmed reports suggest that a popular flu vaccine educational campaign has come to an end. NPR reports that it has spoken with two anonymous sources at the CDC who claim that the agency has been ...

Two U.S. government agencies that are key players in the World Health Organization-led process to select the flu viruses for next winter’s influenza ... to STAT. “CDC will be actively ...