Children ages 6 months through 4 years already are supposed to get three extra-small doses of the vaccine as their primary series of routine vaccinations.

The federal government plans to end in January the public health emergency it declared earlier this year after an outbreak of mpox left more than 29,000 people across the U.S. infected.

The U.S. flu season keeps getting worse.

The U.N. health agency said on Monday that mpox was its new preferred name for monkeypox.

Crisis response is one way to sum up Hawaii Gov. David Ige's eight years in office.

The omicron variant is driving U.S. COVID-19 case counts higher in many places just in time for the holiday season.

The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles immunization has dropped significantly since the coronavirus pandemic began, resulting in a record high of nearly 40 million children missing a vaccine dose last year.

Facial recognition technology is mostly associated with uses such as surveillance and the authentication of human faces, but a group of scientists believe they’ve found a new use for it: saving seals.

U.S. home births increased slightly in the pandemic’s second year, rising to the highest level in decades.

Drug shortages continue from Adderall to baby formula, pharmaceutical giants have struggled to keep up with demand this year.

Amazon said it will work to add other conditions over time to the service, which will not accept insurance.

State attorneys general say Walmart has agreed to pay $3.1 billion to settle lawsuits nationwide over the impact of the prescriptions its pharmacies filled for powerful prescription opioid painkillers.

Those sickened were from New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey and California.

The World Health Organization Chief still urged vigilance against the pandemic as variants continue to crop up.

Clocks changed back over the weekend and studies show about 5% of the population has seasonal affective disorder.