NEW YORK — As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade. A new strain that dominated ...

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For the past week, about 50 flu scientists from around the world were crammed into a conference room at a Hilton hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. Their goal was to design a flu shot that will confer the ...

YOU’RE WATCHING KOAT ACTION SEVEN NEWS. IT MIGHT BE GETTING WARMER, BUT WE’RE STILL IN THE MIDST OF FLU SEASON. KOAT UNM UNM. HEALTH EXPERT DOCTOR ASH SPOKE WITH ME ABOUT WHEN PEOPLE SHOULD STAY HOME, ...

Scientists at Stanford Medicine have unveiled a bold new kind of “universal” vaccine that could one day protect against everything from COVID-19 and the flu to bacterial pneumonia and even common ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. Let’s start off with a vaccine 180.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent years campaigning against vaccines, but with the flu shot, he’s suggested it’s personal. Kennedy has linked his strained, raspy speech to the vaccine, ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent years campaigning against vaccines, but with the flu shot, he’s suggested it’s personal. Kennedy has linked his strained, raspy speech to the vaccine, ...

Moderna shares tumbled last week after the Food and Drug Administration refused to review an application for its new seasonal flu vaccine. Now the FDA seems to have changed its tune.

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The Food and Drug Administration rattled the biotech industry last week when it said it wouldn't even look at Moderna's application to market the first mRNA flu shot. But on Wednesday, the agency ...