Flu shots are a "very good match" to this season's strains, CDC says
Health officials are redoubling calls for Americans to get vaccinated, with flu shots lagging previous seasons.
FDA likely to end blanket ban on sexually active gay men donating blood
Under current federal rules, men cannot donate blood if they have had sex with another man in the last three months.
Health agencies renaming monkeypox to help fight stigma
The World Health Organization urged countries to adopt the new name for the disease, citing the "ongoing negative impact" of the original.
CDC says it's now tracking a new COVID variant known as XBB
The XBB variant has climbed to 3.1% of new COVID cases nationwide, the CDC now estimates.
Taking an at-home COVID test? A new NIH website offers a way to report your results.
The site could be a key early step in a "paradigm shift" for home testing for medical conditions beyond COVID, an NIH official hopes.
In his final COVID briefing, Fauci hopes for less deadly COVID wave this winter
The president's outgoing chief medical adviser pointed to new CDC data suggesting the updated boosters will increase protection against infection.
CDC now tracking BN.1, the latest new COVID variant on the rise
The strain has climbed to make up 4.3% of new COVID-19 cases nationwide.
Will updated boosters outperform original shots? White House still hopeful
Recent small studies, not yet peer-reviewed, suggested the new boosters may not be significantly better than the original vaccine formula.
Many U.S. labs cannot test for Ebola strain behind Uganda's outbreak
A CDC official called it a "huge priority" for the agency to expand availability of tests for this virus.
Biden gets updated COVID booster, urges Americans to do the same
The president touted new efforts by companies to get the shots in more arms ahead of an expected surge in new infections.
Why CDC advisers voted to add COVID vaccines to routine immunizations
The agency says the move is only intended to "streamline clinical guidance" for doctors.
Four states announce their first monkeypox deaths
The new deaths come as the pace of new infections in the monkeypox outbreak has been largely slowing nationwide.
NIH investigates Boston University COVID experiments amid controversy
Boston University says its research with "chimeric recombinant" viruses did not lead to a "gain of function."
New ad campaign touts "big update" to COVID vaccines
The daily pace of new shots administered is once again slowing, following an uptick last month.
"Pretty troublesome": New COVID variant BQ.1 growing rapidly
The CDC said BQ.1 and one of its descendants, BQ.1.1, represent "a small but fast-growing subset of the Omicron variant."