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 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.

"Again, I don't want to give advice," Kennedy said. "I can tell you, in Europe, they don't use the chickenpox vaccine specifically because the preclinical trial shows that when you inoculate the population for chickenpox, you get shingles in older people, which is more dangerous."

Two global health groups that fund billions of dollars worth of critical medical aid - from childhood vaccines to malaria treatments - are in talks about merging some functions to help combat a financing crunch,

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

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.