Dementia is tragically common among the elderly. A growing body of work, however, suggests that simply taking a course of the shingles vaccine can meaningfully slow the decline https://t.co/GqruWsoMfa ...

West Virginia is one of just five states in America that permit only medical exemptions to school-vaccine requirements. That distinction is now in jeopardy https://t.co/UkCp91umtF ...

CDC's vaccine advisory committee will no longer meet next week as planned, HHS sayshttps://t.co/0stEMyDBJq ...

Many public-health authorities recommend the shingles vaccine for people between 65 and 80 (although the range varies by region). But several important questions need to be answered before it can be recommended to younger adults https://t.co/GqruWsoMfa ...

FDA reverses course and will review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, the company says https://t.co/jykQnuHtBx https://t.co/WOW8LeSJZS ...

The Department of Health and Human Services may be following through on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. .'s long-standing goal to change the childhood vaccine schedule.According to the New York Times, in the new year, the health secretary is expected to announce that American children should be immunized according to a different schedule with fewer vaccines, which aligns with the schedule used by the much smaller country of Denmark. Medical experts say the change would almost certainly lead to more cases of infectiou ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has considered moving to align the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with Denmark’s, which recommends fewer vaccines https://t.co/BU59MEWIKI ...

So, the deadline for Americans who want to sign up for health insurance for January 1st, um, under the Affordable Care Act, um, that deadline is midnight tonight, less than three hours from now, because of what Trump and the Republicans did this year, because they decided to cut off the subsidies that support that health insurance program, 22 million Americans who get their health care from the ACA are about to see dramatic increases in what the premiums will cost. And I mean dramatic increases. the average ...

An influential panel of US vaccine advisers voted to revoke a longstanding recommendation that all babies receive hepatitis B shots within 24 hours of birth, in a move expected to reverse the country’s progress toward eliminating the disease https://t.co/6IyDuArMjh ...

An influential panel of US vaccine advisers is expected to reverse a longstanding recommendation that babies receive hepatitis B shots within 24 hours of birth https://t.co/G9d7NMLXOA ...