People ages 6 months and older should receive a vaccine every year. It is also recommended that people over 65 years old get ...

FluMist is a nasal spray manufactured by AstraZeneca that has been used to protect against influenza in the United States ...

His work in the 1950s opened the way for treatments for respiratory distress syndrome, which was once a leading cause of death in premature babies.

Whooping cough cases have gone up in the U.S. compared to last year, according to new statistics from the Centers for Disease ...

A third close contact of a patient in Missouri who was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has reported that they also experienced symptoms, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

New York state reported its first case of eastern equine encephalitis in nearly a decade on Friday. The rare mosquito-borne ...

The FDA has approved FluMist nasal spray as the first at-home flu vaccine. People aged 18 and older can now self-administer ...

In this Jan. 25, 2024, file photo, a used Narcan brand Naloxone nasal spray rests on the street after paramedics and police responded to a suspected fentanyl drug overdose in Portland, Oregon.

On his first day of school at Newcomer Academy, Maikel Tejeda was whisked to the school library. The 7th grader didn’t know ...

Infectious diseases experts say many Americans fell behind on their whooping cough vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

The side effects of newly discovered COVID strain XEC might not be more severe, but appears to be more contagious, ...

Whooping cough is surging in the United States, with cases now five times higher than they were at the same point last year, ...