Infectious diseases are becoming more frequent, more severe, and harder to control in our closely connected world. Viruses ...

Its overdependence on vaccines leaves the country vulnerable to bioterrorism.

The shingles vaccine may have a protective effect against dementia, write doctors Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on ...

For decades, the human niche for viruses related to smallpox has remained mostly empty. Since eradicating smallpox, only rare ...

G etting vaccinated for the viral illness shingles, which causes a painful rash, could potentially be the next best tool in ...

Several previous studies have suggested that shingles vaccinations might reduce dementia risk, but most could not exclude the ...

The Trump administration has cut funding for vaccine research since COVID-19 is not a pandemic but coronaviruses and ...

The strongest set of evidence to date indicates that people who had a shingles vaccine had significantly lower odds of ...

Top FDA official Peter Marks was forced to resign as the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.