Vaccination

Even before I came to the United States to start my internal medicine residency, I had discovered that my calling was a career in infectious diseases.

The federal government will once again be distributing free at-home COVID-19 tests to households across the country starting next month, health officials announced Friday.

The FDA on Thursday announced that it has greenlit the updated COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, which the companies said should be available within days.

For the 2nd year in a row, HPV vaccination coverage among adolescents in the United States did not increase, according to data published Thursday by the CDC.

Healio’s infectious diseases and pediatrics news teams received an APEX award for a 2023 report on the CDC and FDA’s performances during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was part of a larger series called “Life during COVID.”

WHO on Wednesday declared the spread of mpox in Africa to be a global public health emergency.

A dose of Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine was well tolerated and generated a strong immune response among adults aged 59 years or younger, the company announced in a press release.

Children born from 2011 to 2020 who were uninsured or living below the federal poverty level had lower vaccination coverage than insured children or those living at or above the federal poverty level, according to a CDC press release.

The incidence of heart attack and stroke is lower among people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 compared with before vaccination and people who have not received a vaccine, according to a study.

There are several methods and tools clinicians can utilize to improve vaccine confidence and boost immunization rates as the respiratory virus season approaches, according to an expert panel.