Routine vaccinations offered to adults may help protect against dementia, recent research has shown.

Vaccines are an important part of modern medicine, helping to build up a person's immunity and protect them from illness, ...

Do your own analysis; you don’t need a degree in science: Read the document and see if you can find any estimates of whether ...

A study showed people 70 or older who had the shingles jab scored better on four key aspects of biological aging.

COVID-19 vaccines lower the risk of getting sick, seriously ill or dying from the disease. But how do the different types of COVID-19 vaccines work? Each COVID-19 vaccine causes the immune system to ...

An analysis of more than one million people in the UK found that two-thirds of people who were vaccine-hesitant during the ...

WASHINGTON — The most widely used covid-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients — revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors. People with advanced lung or skin ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Cancer: it’s a diagnosis that most of us have learned to fear. On the one hand decades ...

In sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer recommends ...

Thirty-three years ago, as a new pediatrician, RWJ CEO Richard Besser had a conversation about vaccines with two parents-to-be. It still sticks with him.

Measles and smallpox, for example, are viruses; Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterium that causes a range of diseases, ...