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 ...

In this episode of Inside Family Medicine, host Michael Monroe speaks with AAFP Vaccine Science fellows Anne Schneider, DO, FAAFP, and Mina Saleem Khan, MD, FAAFP, about why mRNA vaccines matter and ...

The new 2026-2027 COVID-19 vaccines are available. Experts explain who should get one the shots and why, the best time to get vaccinated, side effects and more.

The COVID-19 vaccine may give brain cancer patients a bonus shot at survival. Patients who received the vaccine within 100 days before biopsy or tumor surgery lived twice as long as those who didn’t ...

Five years of mass deployment. Billions of administered doses. A political environment that twice nearly defunded the research. And now, the most comprehensive scientific accounting the platform has ...

If vaccines for the flu and COVID-19 were competing as wrestlers in a ring, the COVID-19 shot would have the flu shot pinned flat against the mat. The efficacy of influenza vaccines year-to-year can ...

For some older adults, the flu vaccine could look a little different this year. In August, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the nation’s first mRNA-based flu vaccine for use in people 50 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new flu vaccine, Moderna's mFlusiva, marking the public release of the first non-COVID-related mRNA vaccine in the U.S. Moderna's vaccine was ...