Many vaccines confer surprising knock-on, or indirect, health benefits when they have been put into widespread use.

Growing research suggests that the shingles vaccine may offer health benefits beyond preventing shingles. A new study ...

A shingles vaccine might double as a powerful heart protector. In people already at high risk, it cut major cardiac events by 46% and deaths by an impressive 66% within a year. Scientists think ...

Shingles, caused by the reactivation of the chickenpox virus, becomes more common with age. Doctors highlight the importance ...

Vaccination is a simple but important way to look after your health if you are 75 or over. “Vaccination plays a key role in helping to protect older people who have a higher risk of infection in later ...

Families should feel comfortable receiving answers they trust. That requires accessible, credible information about vaccine ...

The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines might make some cancer treatments more effective. Lung cancer patients who received the vaccine within a few months of immunotherapy, which revs up the immune system, lived ...

Every week has brought new developments, new hearings, new appointments, and new announcements in the world of vaccine policy. Frankly, it has been a demoralizing year for those of us who work in ...