November 4, 2025
Learn key clinical trial terms with our glossary. Understand study phases, treatments and participant rights to make informed decisions about clinical research.
October 23, 2025
In this episode of Kids Health Cast, Dr. Hannah Wunsch gives a deep dive into the public health issue of polio, including its history and resurgence worldwide.
October 21, 2025
The HBV vaccine is highly effective, with a protective antibody response achieved more than 90 percent of the time in adults and 95 percent in infants, plus the protection is long-term.
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.
October 6, 2025
Pediatrician Dr. Amanda Kravitz joins "CBS Mornings Plus" to explain what parents should know about cold and flu season from newborns to school-aged children – and when's the best time to get the flu shot.
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.
