Lauren Neergaard

A certified medical assistant holds a syringe for a flu vaccine at a clinic in Seattle on Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Top US doctors offer updated flu and COVID vaccine recommendations, aiming to ease confusion

September 2, 2026 at 9:16 a.m.

Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, banding together to issue shot guidelines — and highlight the science behind them.

Georgetown University’s Rebecca Katz points to measles data for the country at Georgetown’s Health Security Operations Center in Washington on June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Health sleuths are watching for disease threats during the World Cup

June 10, 2026 at 2:44 p.m.

While millions of soccer fans cheer or groan over World Cup matches spanning North America, health officials will be on high alert for germs.

A certified medical assistant holds a syringe for a flu vaccine at a clinic in Seattle, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Flu is rising rapidly, driven by a new variant. Here’s what to know.

December 30, 2025 at 5:33 p.m.

A new flu variant is known as “subclade K,” and led to early outbreaks in the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada.

A pharmacist gives a patient a flu shot in Miami on Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Daniel Kozin)

It’s time to get a flu vaccination. Here’s who needs one and why.

October 1, 2025 at 3:31 p.m.

October is the ideal month to get a flu vaccine, experts say, because flu cases typically begin climbing in November.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Washington, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listen. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredited link between vaccines and autism

September 22, 2025 at 6:22 p.m.

President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy may contribute to rising autism rates in the U.S., a potential link experts have studied and say is...

A sign for flu vaccination is displayed on a screen at a pharmacy store in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Harsh flu season has health officials worried about brain complications in children

February 27, 2025 at 5:15 p.m.

This year’s harsh flu season – the most intense in 15 years – has federal health officials trying to understand if it sparked an increase in a rare but life-threatening...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens to criticism from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., during his testimony before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Fauci pushes back partisan attacks in fiery House hearing over COVID origins and controversies

June 3, 2024 at 4:49 p.m.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert until leaving the government in 2022, was back before Congress on Monday, calling “simply preposterous” Republican allegations that he’d tried to...

Zach Ault of Paducah, Ky., is connected to medical monitors during an exercise test at the National Institutes of Health's hospital in Bethesda, Md. Ault has ME/CFS, what once was called "chronic fatigue syndrome," and is part of a unique study aiming to uncover clues to how the mysterious disease steals patients' energy. At center is Brice Calco, a research trainee with NIH's National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke.

Patients push limits for clues to chronic fatigue syndrome

January 8, 2020 at 10:46 a.m.

Chronic fatigue syndrome is one of medicine's most vexing mysteries. Now doctors at the National Institutes of Health are using volunteers for a unique study that pushes their limits in...

Cancer pen could help surgeons detect tumors in seconds

June 2, 2018 at 2:42 p.m.

Patients emerging from cancer surgery want to know, "Did you get it all?" Now scientists are developing a pen-like probe to help surgeons better tell when it's safe to stop...

New research suggests random chance plays a bigger role in getting cancer

June 5, 2018 at 11:22 a.m.

Cancer patients often wonder "why me?" Does their tumor run in the family? Did they try hard enough to avoid risks like smoking, too much sun or a bad diet?...

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