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From the archives: During a devastating polio epidemic, a vaccine was finally...
“How they’re closing in on polio” (Marguerite Clark, May 1953). Popular Science To mark our 150th year, we’re revisiting the Popular Science stories (both hits and misses) that helped define...
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Children 5 to 11 can now get COVID boosters
CDC via Pexels The US Food and Drug Administration has approved emergency use authorization of a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus booster shot for children ages 5 through 11. The agency announced on...
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Why did it take 35 years to get a malaria vaccine?
A health worker prepares a malaria vaccination for a child at Yala Sub-County hospital, in Yala, Kenya, on October 7, 2021. BRIAN ONGORO/AFP via Getty Images This article was originally featured on...
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Young kids will likely have COVID vaccine access in the next few weeks
Kids under 5 should be able to get vaccinated against COVID within weeks. CDC On June 16, a panel of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisors unanimously recommended two COVID vaccines for children...
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How do vaccines affect periods? A big COVID survey lays out some clues.
If you experienced irregular menstrual bleeding after getting a COVID vaccine, you're not alone. Deposit Photos Since the COVID-19 vaccines first began rolling out last winter, some recipients have...
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The White House (sort of) has a plan to create more resilient COVID vaccines
Vaccines delivered through the nose or mouth could create stronger immunity against infection. Lakshmiprasad/Deposit Photos When the first round of COVID vaccines were authorized in December of 2020,...
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Omicron-specific COVID vaccine approved in the UK
Omicron is responsible for much of this summers new cases. DepositPhotos Health officials in the UK have just made the country the first to approve a new bivalent COVID-19 vaccine that targets both...
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As COVID vaccines reach kids worldwide, a gap in Africa leaves everyone exposed
Mother getting vaccine from a USAID mobile clinic in South Africa. The country has only approved the shots for kids above the age of 12. USAID/South Africa Just one year after the coronavirus pandemic...
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What to know about polio boosters, oral vaccines, and your medical history...
At right, Jonas Salk, the doctor behind the first polio vaccine, administers a shot to a kid in Pennsylvania in 1955. Bettmann/Getty Images With COVID, monkeypox, and West Nile virus, New York has had...
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FDA green lights Omicron-targeting mRNA vaccine boosters
New COVD vaccine boosters will be available in a single dose and target two strains of the virus. Vcolvacik/Deposit Photos The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorize Pfizer-BioNTech and...
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Omicron boosters are the future of COVID vaccines in the US
The newest COVID booster shots are becoming available across the country. Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images Over Labor Day weekend, pharmacies across the country began receiving shipments of...
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China approves world’s first nasal COVID-19 vaccine booster
The H1N1 nasal vaccine pictured here, has been available for over a decade. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Good news for those with trypanophobia, or fear of needles. Regulators in China have...
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New four-dose malaria vaccine is up to 80 percent effective
Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites spread by mosquito bites. Pexels/Pixabay Almost one year after the historic approval of the world’s first malaria vaccine, a new vaccine called R21 showed up...
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What you need to know about getting the new COVID-19 booster
The latest vaccines will help raise the country's collective immunity against COVID. CDC/Robin Spratling The change in season is coming with a change in COVID-19 vaccines. Last week, the Food and Drug...
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Why we should be looking out for diabetes in young people with COVID
Type 1 diabetes affects patients for their entire lives. Nataliya Vaitkevich/Pexels Clinicians and researchers continue to search for some of the long-term effects and risks patients face after having...
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Oxford/AstraZeneca nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine fails first trial
COVID vaccines delivered by a nasal spray could be common in the future. DepositPhotos Researchers at Oxford announced today that a nasal spray version of the COVID-19 vaccine they’ve developed with...
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The risk of heart inflammation is higher for COVID infections than the vaccine
An echocardiogram detects heart rhythms. Deposit Photos The health implications of COVID-19 do not always go away when fevers break, coughs subside, and senses of smell and taste return. An estimated...
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The first honeybee vaccine could protect the entire hive, starting with the...
Scientists are developing vaccines for honeybees to help fight off infections. Courtesy Dalan Animal Health, Inc. The world’s first insect vaccine is here, and it could help with stopping a fatal...
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AI moderators can’t keep up with vaccine disinformation’s newest language:...
Getting vaccinated is safe—and recommended. Deposit Photos Coded language is nothing new—but the scale at which it can be deployed via social media is essentially unprecedented. Observers often...
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Why we still don’t have a vaccine for the common cold
'Science Closes In on the Common Cold' appeared in the November 1955 issue of Popular Science. Popular Science From cities in the sky to robot butlers, futuristic visions fill the history of PopSci....
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A potential vaccine for pregnant mothers could quell the surge of serious RSV...
An intensive care nurse holds the foot of a patient suffering from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Germany. Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images On Tuesday, Pfizer announced positive...
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Fighting RSV in babies starts with a mother’s antibodies
An intensive care nurse holds the foot of an infant suffering from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Olga Hospital in Stuttgart, Germany. A Pfizer vaccine may soon be on the way. Marijan...
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Twitter quietly removed its ban on COVID-19 misinformation last week
Twitter previously suspended over 11,000 accounts for posting COVID-19 misinformation. Deposit Photos Since January 2020, Twitter’s internal statistics cite over 11,000 accounts suspensions and nearly...
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The most powerful health innovations of 2022
It's the Best of What's New. STAAR Surgical Almost three years into the pandemic, the spotlight isn’t just on COVID medicine anymore. While booster shots and take-home antiviral pills gave us new...
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Bivalent COVID-19 vaccines now available for children under 5 in the US
A medical professional prepares a COVID-19 vaccine. Deposit Photos This story has been updated. This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed their emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for...
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Ebola vaccines in African countries successfully produced antibodies in kids...
A man disinfects facilities at an isolation center in Mubende district, Uganda, Nov. 1, 2022. Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/Xinhua via Getty Images As an outbreak of Ebola virus disease continues in...
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Certain funguses are deadly for frogs. Could ‘vaccinating’ them help?
California red-legged frogs are threatened with extinction. Lisa M. Krieger/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images This article was originally featured on The Conversation. When the...
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Every year in Texas, it rains rabies vaccines for coyotes and foxes
Three airplanes loaded with oral rabies vaccines prepare to take off from an airport in South Texas. Texas Department of State Health Services This article was originally featured on Outdoor Life....
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Late-stage trials show efficacy of Moderna’s RSV vaccine in older adults
A patient wearing a bandage after receiving a vaccine. Deposit Photos On January 17, Moderna announced that data from a late-stage clinical trial for the company’s experimental messenger RNA (mRNA)...
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Another HIV vaccine candidate fails in clinical trial
A vaccine pharmacist prepares blind samples as part of an HIV vaccine trial on March 16, 2022 in Masaka, Uganda. Luke Dray/Getty Images The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
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What’s really going on with myocarditis and COVID vaccines
A heart viewed by MRI, one way to look for signs of myocarditis. Deposit Photos In the two years since the COVID vaccines became available to the public, they have become a popular target for...
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The FDA says get used to COVID-19 vaccine boosters
A doctor with a vial of Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine in November 2020. Deposit Photos On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory...
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A vaccine trial targeting the most lethal breast cancer just took its next step
A scientist working at a microscope with a pipette. Deposit Photos Researchers at Cleveland Clinic launched their next step in a study of a vaccine aimed at preventing triple-negative breast cancer....
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Moderna says it will keep its COVID-19 vaccine free (for now)
Syringes with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine lay ready to be used at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 21, 2022. Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Image...
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A good night’s sleep could help vaccines work better
Efficacy of a good rest may be different based on a person's gender or age. Pexels Feeling sleepy after getting a flu or COVID-19 vaccine? Go ahead and hit the hay. New research shows that getting a...
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Under a microscope, mouse colons and mutant pollen become art
Microscopic images of pollen. The crushed-looking grains are mutants that lack proteins in their structural mesh, called a nuclear lamina. Junsik Choi, David Mankus, Margaret Bisher, Abigail...
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Healthy adults don’t need to keep getting COVID-19 boosters, says WHO
The World Health Organization's guidelines on COVID-19 boosters is subject to change as the pandemic evolves. Deposit Photos Following its March meeting, the World Health Organization’s Strategic...
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White House invests $5 billion in new COVID vaccines and treatments as...
The fast pace evolution of COVID-19 has made many treatments ineffective. Deposit Photos The national COVID-19 emergency is drawing to a close, which means certain treatments and tests that have...
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Ghana is the first country to approve Oxford’s malaria vaccine
A health worker measures the dosage of malaria vaccine Mosquirix in western Kenya on September 13, 2019. BRIAN ONGORO/AFP via Getty Images Ghana is the first country to approve a malaria vaccine for...
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5 skin cancer-care tools you should look out for
Even doctors can have a hard time telling when moles are cancerous. New tools like radio wave scanners and AI photo apps can help. Deposit Photos Ozone is like Earth’s natural sunscreen, protecting...
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That time the CDC got people hyped for a zombie apocalypse
A page from Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic, which was released back in 2011. Click the image credit to read it in full. <Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Excerpted from If It Sounds...
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FDA approves first RSV vaccine for adults after 60 years in the making
RSV leads to approximately 60,000 to 120,000 hospitalizations and 6,000 to 10,000 deaths among adults 65 years of age and older every year. Deposit Photos After 60 years of trial and error, the Food...
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Your guide to COVID testing for the unforeseeable future
A school superintendent grabs boxes of COVID-19 at-home testing kits to pass out to families before school starts next week at Canyon Middle School in Castro Valley, California. San Francisco...
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Meningitis shot that fights 5 different strains shows promise in latest trial
According to the World Health Organization, meningitis caused an estimated 25,000 deaths in 2019. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control A phase 3 trial found that a new meningococcal...
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How to avoid getting COVID again
COVID is making a comeback as kids head to school again. Deposit Photos With the changing weather comes virus season. Throughout the pandemic, infectious disease experts have seen an uptick in COVID...
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Do I need a COVID booster? And all of your other questions answered.
The number of hospitalized patients with covid has ticked up modestly in recent weeks. DepositPhotos This article was originally published on KFF Health News. Everyone over the age of 6 months should...
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mRNA vaccine innovators win the Nobel Prize in medicine
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach The 2023 Nobel Prize in...
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How to check your measles vaccination status amid outbreak
Two doses of the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine are about 97 percent effective at preventing measles. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Florida Department of Health is...
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CDC recommends Americans 65 and over get additional COVID-19 vaccine
The most recent vaccines are about 54 percent effective at preventing symptomatic illness from COVID-19. Deposit Photos The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending that...
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The bombastic 19th-century anti-vaxxer who fueled Montreal’s smallpox epidemic
Misinformation about diseases is a timeless human challenge. Images: A page out of the 19th-century Anti-Vaccinator magazine; naturalist and anti-vaccination activist Alexander Milton Ross. MIT Press...
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