Vaccines

In interviews, mothers who rejected vaccines for their children cited their own negative experiences with the medical system

By ignoring common sense and medical advice, Florida’s health officials risk accelerating a burgeoning measles outbreak

Vaccines that target tumors with specific genetic mutations in pancreatic and other cancers have shown promise in early-stage trials

This year health care providers have tools to help prevent lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV for older adults.

This podcast was funded by GSK and produced for GSK by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors.

Measles is extremely infectious. Vaccines provide good protection, but some adults may need a top-up shot

You have a “better chance of becoming Spider-Man” than being harmed by DNA from COVID vaccines

Several new studies reveal that getting multiple COVID vaccine doses provides strong protection against lingering symptoms

Fewer kids got their routine childhood vaccines since before the pandemic. Are lack of access and a loss of trust in science to blame?

A pandemic film shows that compassion and civil dialogue might be the best antidote to vaccine distrust

Access to pediatric COVID vaccines has been hampered by a shortage of doses, higher costs to providers and parental skepticism

Unions are good medicine, spurring vaccinations in their wider communities while overcoming pandemic politics

Research on what makes people willing to donate organs shows how to motivate many of the unvaccinated this fall