Health officials say the 2025-2026 flu season’s vaccine offered less protection than usual, as a mutated strain of influenza A dominated cases across the U.S. A strain known as H3N2 “subclade K” ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report March 12 on the effectiveness of the flu vaccine for the ...

The good news: As the weather is turning warmer, flu season is officially headed off a cliff. The bad news: The efficacy of ...

Flu activity in the United States is finally slowing down, but health experts say this year’s flu vaccine didn't offer as ...

As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst ...

Many kids are scared of getting needles, and this can stop them getting vaccinations that protect that against the flu. Less than 1 in 4 Australian children were vaccinated against influenza in 2025.

The US FDA’s vaccine advisors have recommended that three new influenza strains be included in next winter’s influenza vaccine, aiming in part to tamp down illness caused by subclade K, a mutated form ...

Incentives to bring vaccines to market are shrinking. Drugmakers are scaling back research investments and cutting jobs.

Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies the current flu season as “moderate,” at least 90 children have already died of influenza. Among the children who died and were ...

U.S. flu cases are surging partially because of a new strain named "subclade K," that is not well covered by this year’s flu vaccine. Doctors still recommend getting the flu vaccine as it can reduce ...

In early 2026, Moderna reported encouraging long-term data for its personalized cancer vaccine mRNA-4157 (V940) in high-risk melanoma, while the FDA granted expedited review and an August 5, 2026 ...