For this reason, the CDC recommends adults 50 or older schedule the following vaccines, which many people can get for free.

Public health and infectious disease experts said they were surprised and confused about the move, and questioned why the HHS did not offer any reasoning for its decision.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the approval of Moderna’s RSV vaccine late Thursday to include people 18 to ...

Kennedy Jr. accepted his new position as health secretary, he made a big show of distancing himself from his past life. Ne ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded its approval of Moderna's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine on ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the approval of Moderna’s RSV vaccine late Thursday to include individuals 18 ...

CDC advisors voted to lower the age of RSV vaccination to include people as young as age 50. In the absence of a director, the recommendation will be sent to the CDC chief of staff for consideration.

If accepted by the CDC, the vote on the use of RSV vaccines in people in their 50s would initially apply to vaccines sold by GSK and Pfizer. Moderna is in the process of applying to the FDA to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the RSV vaccine for the following groups. Adults 75 years old and up Because immunity to all viruses wanes in old age, the elderly ...

the US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group of medical and public health experts that advises the CDC, updated guidelines in June 2024 to recommend RSV vaccination for all ...

The CDC says everyone 75 years and older should get the shot, if they didn’t get the vaccine last year. (Again, the first RSV vaccine was approved in May of 2023, so one RSV season has passed.

It’s that time of year when any cough or sniffle could be Covid-19, flu or RSV — but there are ways to fend them off. Forecasts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest ...