Flu cases have been shockingly low during the pandemic. Here why. By Sara Kiley Watson / Jan 15, 2021
Vaccines conquered smallpox and polio, but COVID-19 looks like a tougher battle By Tyler Santora / Jan 8, 2021
Ending the pandemic means vaccinating the whole world—but the US is focusing on itself By Kat Eschner / Dec 29, 2020
With two COVID-19 vaccines available, the CDC updates its guidance on who gets them first By Sara Chodosh / Dec 22, 2020
What you should know about allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine By Kate Baggaley / Dec 17, 2020
What the Dippin’ Dots ‘cold chain’ can teach us about COVID-19 vaccines By Maddie Bender / Dec 15, 2020
What to know about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine before it reaches you By Claire Maldarelli / Dec 14, 2020
Pfizer’s COVID vaccine just hit a major milestone on its way to FDA authorization By Rachel Feltman / Dec 10, 2020
See how COVID-19 vaccines will get to your neighborhood By Bahar Aliakbarian/The Conversation / Dec 9, 2020
COVID-19 is helping another terrible disease make a comeback in Afghanistan By Ruchi Kumar/Undark / Dec 2, 2020
Vaccines could be out by the end of 2020, but reaching everyone will take time By Tyler Santora / Nov 26, 2020
Why AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine is an important addition to the fleet of offerings By Kat Eschner / Nov 24, 2020
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is now 95 percent effective. Here’s what that actually means. By Claire Maldarelli / Nov 18, 2020
A second COVID-19 vaccine just reported excellent results. What now? By Claire Maldarelli / Nov 16, 2020
A taskforce of Black doctors is independently evaluating COVID-19 vaccine candidates By Kate Baggaley / Oct 12, 2020
Two women just won the Nobel Prize for their work on the gene-editing technique CRISPR By Claire Maldarelli / Oct 7, 2020
The Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to the trio that discovered hepatitis C By Sara Kiley Watson / Oct 5, 2020
How do we know if medicines are safe during pregnancies? By Jyoti Madhusoodanan / Undark / Oct 2, 2020
AstraZeneca resumed its COVID-19 vaccine trials after uncovering a mysterious reaction By Claire Maldarelli / Sep 15, 2020
The ‘inactive’ ingredients in your pills could harm you By Yelena Ionova/The Conversation / Sep 15, 2020
Trump downplayed the threat from COVID-19. Here’s how we could’ve fought back harder. By Kate Baggaley / Sep 11, 2020
Times of strife can lead to medical innovation—when governments are willing By Jeffrey Clemens/The Conversation / Sep 9, 2020
AstraZeneca just paused its COVID-19 vaccine trial, and that’s a good thing By Claire Maldarelli / Sep 9, 2020
Watch Elon Musk unveil the next version of his AI-powered brain implant, Neuralink By Stan Horaczek / Aug 28, 2020
Most Americans can’t afford fertility treatments anymore—so they’re going abroad By Brant deBoer/Undark / Aug 24, 2020
People are stockpiling umbilical cord blood without really knowing what it does By Mikkael A. Sekeres/MIT Press Reader / Aug 14, 2020
Russia just approved a COVID vaccine—but that’s not necessarily good news By Claire Maldarelli / Aug 12, 2020
Gene-edited cows could make meat more sustainable. But would people eat it? By Dyllan Furness/Undark / Aug 7, 2020