New vaccines are often evaluated in trials in which some participants receive a placebo. But not all studies can be designed ...

A half-decade since the pandemic, countless individuals and families have been left wondering: what is the long-term safety ...

In recent interviews, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has minimized the risk COVID-19 poses to kids ...

Placebo testing has been part of the process since the 1940s. It’s unclear what additional measures would achieve — but it may slow development.

The most commonly reported adverse events with the AZD1222 COVID-19 vaccine are headache and fatigue, a large-scale active ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to stop the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) ...

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said his agency plans to release a new framework for vaccine approvals in “coming days.” ...

New FDA framework on changes coronavirus vaccine approval will be released “in the coming days,” FDA Commissioner Marty ...

There also was no link between miscarriage risk and the number of vaccinations a woman had gotten, or whether she’d gotten ...

There are also now multiple years of data from people in the community who received updated COVID-19 vaccines, showing that they do protect against hospitalization. And vaccine safety monitoring ...

A combination shot for flu and Covid-19 using messenger RNA generated antibodies in a study, but US government regulators want to see data on whether the new vaccine protects people from getting sick.