The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates 42% of Americans over the age of 55 will develop dementia, a term for brain diseases associated with memory loss, behavioral changes and decreased ...

Stanford University researchers have developed a way to make the seasonal flu vaccine stronger against more strains, potentially including those that cause bird flu, the university said this month. By ...

A headline is fueling concern about Johnson and Johnson's one-shot vaccine, and whether it's less effective against the Delta variant. But experts point out the new study, out of NYU's school of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As the first batch of vaccines makes its way to California for health care workers and nursing home residents, work is underway to determine what groups will be next. The big ...

Stanford Medicine apologized on Friday for its vaccine distribution plan – a plan that came under fire for leaving out nearly all of its medical residents and fellows, many whom regularly treat ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) -- The FDA is waiting on more data before deciding to authorize Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5-years-old. "The great news was that it was safe for every kid, ...

When children receive their second measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, around the time they start kindergarten, they gain protection against all three viruses for all or most of their lives. Yet the ...

A study of a smallpox vaccine that could prove vital in the United States' war on bioterrorism is under way at Stanford Medical Center. The trial tests the potency of the Dryvax vaccine, a 1970s-era ...