NPR

Despite U.S. pull out from WHO, reps were (virtually) at the table for big flu confab

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

Trump’s Surgeon-General Nominee Defends MAHA Vaccine Policies

President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general aligned herself with the administration’s moves on vaccines so far, including shrinking the number of recommended vaccines for children, as she told ...
Science Daily

Scientists create universal nasal spray vaccine that protects against COVID, flu, and pneumonia

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 ...
Scientific American

Desert dino find, flu shot U‑turn, universal vaxx hope, air toxin warning

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.
Yahoo

Inside RFK Jr.’s long-running crusade against the flu 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, ...
The Washington Post

Inside RFK Jr.’s push against the flu vaccine that he links to his voice condition

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, ...
Digital Journal

Tracking global flu activity in real time through AI

Could the Omicron variant of COVID-19 be masking itself as a common cold virus? Source - CDC Public Health Image library ID 11162. Author - James Gathany. Public Domain Could the Omicron variant of ...
The Conversation

FDA’s abrupt flip‑flop on Moderna’s mRNA flu shot highlights growing risks to drug‑makers of investing in vaccines

Ana Santos Rutschman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
NPR

FDA reverses course on Moderna flu shot

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 ...
Associated Press

Moderna says the FDA will consider its new flu shot after resolving a public dispute

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A sign marks an entrance to a Moderna building in ...
PBS

Moderna says FDA will now consider its new mRNA flu shot after initial refusal

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration will consider whether to approve Moderna's new flu vaccine after all, resolving a dispute that had blocked the company's application for the first-of ...