A novel nasal booster approach may help close the gap between systemic vaccination and infection-blocking mucosal immunity, offering fresh insight into next-generation COVID vaccine strategies. Study: ...

Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical correspondent as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health ...

Researchers found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines significantly increased survival in lung and skin cancer patients undergoing immunotherapy. The vaccine appears to prime the immune system in a powerful, ...

In a new study published in Nature Immunology, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital demonstrated that pairing the ...

It’s time to consider receiving the newly updated COVID booster to better protect against the continually mutating SARS-CoV-2. Unfortunately, most Americans have COVID in their rearview mirror. Only ...

The Covid-19 shot may have further-reaching benefits than previously thought, as mRNA vaccines appear to help increase the effectiveness of immunotherapy in cancer patients. Widespread use of the ...

The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines might make some cancer treatments more effective. Lung cancer patients who received the vaccine within a few months of immunotherapy, which revs up the immune system, lived ...

Over three-fourths of healthcare workers received an influenza vaccine in 2024-2025, survey data showed. COVID vaccination was less common, at 40%, but that represented a significant jump over the ...