October 7, 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently recommends a single dose of Moderna’s RSV vaccine for adults 75 years and older, and for adults 50 to 74 years old who have underlying conditions that can increase their risk for severe disease. These include chronic lung or cardiac diseases, severe obesity or a severely compromised immune system, among others.
September 25, 2025
mRNA is a platform that can be used to create vaccines against a wide variety of diseases. One of the great advantages of the platform is that a vaccine can be quickly manufactured and scaled up, no matter which virus is being targeted.
September 23, 2025
From eradicating deadly diseases to preventing seasonal outbreaks, vaccines continue to protect individuals and strengthen communities.
September 4, 2025
In what follows, Dr. Karen Acker, an assistant attending pediatrician with expertise in infectious diseases and assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, recounts the history of its use, its removal from certain childhood vaccines in 2001 and how that removal has had the unintended effect of intensifying public concerns around its safety.
August 25, 2025
This August, Legionnaires’ disease has claimed several lives and sickened more than a hundred people across Central Harlem.
August 19, 2025
Find out what we know so far about vaccines during pregnancy. Learn what vaccines you need and why they’re important when you’re expecting a new addition.
August 6, 2025
Learn what we know about vaccine recommendations by age group. From birth to mid-life and beyond, here are the vaccines you need.
July 30, 2025
Get your kids ready for school. Find out what vaccines are required for the upcoming school year to ensure a healthy and safe return to class.
July 29, 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued new guidelines regarding who should receive the COVID-19 vaccine and who shouldn’t. Healthy children and pregnant women are no longer on the list of vaccine-eligible Americans.
July 23, 2025
The latest variant of concern is actually a descendant of Omicron: NB.1.8.1. And it has been creating a major spike in cases in China. Recently, a few cases have appeared on our shores as well.
