The US approved the first vaccine for RSV on Wednesday, shots to protect older adults against a respiratory virus that’s most notorious for attacking babies but endangers their grandparents, too.
With flu season on the way for another year, Australians are being encouraged to get vaccinated against the disease ahead of winter, particularly with COVID-19 circulating through the community.
A third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine has been linked to a 90 per cent reduction in the mortality rate for people with multiple health conditions, a new study has found.
Health authorities are seeking temporary guardianship of a baby whose parents won't allow him to receive blood from those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Schools should have stayed open, lockdowns and border closures were too harsh and older Australians weren't protected well enough, an independent report into Australia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has concluded.
A new deal is taking Australia a step closer to a world-first vaccine that can help protect the country from the devastation of foot and mouth disease.
Pfizer has been granted provisional approval by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to use its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose in children aged five to 11 years old.
A case of measles has been detected in New South Wales. It is the first time the highly infectious disease has been found in the state since February 2020.
Moderna filed patent infringement lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech "for infringing patents central to (its) mRNA technology platform," the company said in a news release.
An audit into the rollout found it was "not timely", didn't initially take government targets into account, and underestimated the task of getting the aged care and disability community vaccinated.
British drug regulators have become the first in the world to authorise an updated version of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine that aims to protect against the original virus and the Omicron variant.
Children living in London will be offered an extra dose of the polio vaccine following the discovery of poliovirus in sewage in the British capital, health authorities have announced.