He gets on the phone to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ... flu right now. If this person has acquired this strain of influenza and has had no exposure to birds, then that ...

Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the ...

“This is going to affect everybody, whether you have a loved one who is sick and is waiting for the cures of tomorrow, if you benefit from vaccines or from being able to get good, up-to-date ...

Even as more people are dying from flu, the Trump administration has postponed vaccine planning for next fall's flu season.

Many of the flu viruses that the CDC has tested this season were "well-recognized" by antibodies targeted to the vaccine, which helps the body fight off the infection, the agency reported this month.

While the basic information about flu vaccination remains on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, information campaigns that promoted flu vaccination to the general public ...

The CDC has issued interim effectiveness estimates for the 2024-2025 seasonal influenza and 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines.

Americans are facing the highest death toll from influenza since 2018, just as more people become vulnerable because of ...

Both the CDC and the FDA are ... committee and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, said Thursday.The 2024-25 flu season – the worst in the U.S ...

Just over half of U.S. adults (53%) say they’ve gotten neither the flu shot nor the updated COVID-19 vaccine since last ...