Here are four more updates: Influenza activity remained elevated but has been declining for four consecutive weeks. Flu-related emergency department visits remain moderate, and test positivity is at ...

After the FDA canceled a key advisory meeting, government doctors stepped in to propose a trivalent flu vaccine for the upcoming 2025-26 season.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the upcoming ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday made recommendations to vaccine manufacturers for the virus strains to be ...

With record high egg prices, should the U.S. vaccinate chickens against bird flu? Any such program would be expensive and ...

This week, the Food and Drug Administration — now with vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm — unexpectedly and ...

About 44 percent of American adults ages 18 and older have received a flu vaccine this season, according to the CDC. For the flu season last year, about 45 percent of adults got the shot.

The Food and Drug Administration’s abrupt decision on Wednesday to cancel next month’s vaccine advisory committee meeting — ...

This year's flu shots have dramatically reduced hospitalizations for seasonal influenza, early data suggest. For kids and teens, the shots were at least 63% effective against flu hospitalizations, and ...

The timing of the meeting is crucial because flu vaccine production is a lengthy process, with some doses still made using chicken eggs. Each year, FDA advisers meet to formally decide which flu ...

The meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, is held every March “to pick flu strains, because it’s a six-month production cycle for a vaccine rel ...