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Humboldt County Public Health will soon begin vaccinating people at high risk of contracting the monkeypox virus, the county announced today. The Centers for Disease...

About 70% of the 122 confirmed monkeypox virus cases to date in North Carolina involve Black men, but only 24% of the vaccine has gone to Black recipients, the state

Administering the one-fifth dose is more how you get a tb test. it goes just under the layer of the skin and deposits just a very small amount right there which actually hyped up the immune response a little faster. theres a really good set of data from a wide set of vaccines not just for smallpox but also flu and rabies that this can be more effective. but as you said, it is a different kind of administration. the folks who are giving it are going to have to use different needles, draw up diffe...

A local infectious diseases expert cautioned Tuesday that monkeypox has the potential to spread beyond the communities that have been hardest hit so far.

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced that healthcare providers will be able to administer monkeypox vaccines in a way that would increase the limited supply of doses fivefold as part of an effort to accelerate the response to the worsening outbreak.

Of the 14 Triad and Northwest N.C. counties, all but Guilford are fully covered.

BioNTech, with its partner Pfizer, expects to begin deliveries of two omicron-adapted vaccines as soon as October in time for a fall vaccination campaign ahead of another COVID-19 surge.

Millions of Americans Poised to See Lower Health Care Costs, Get Relief from High Prescription Drug Prices Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

About bans on some forms of contraception, plan b, really early bans on abortion, its a loser politically. and it always -- i think it always will be. i know just from talking to red state women voters -- [laughter] it is. is and thats just the facts. and i know for the pro-life side, the philosophy is were here to protect life. we have these two conflicting forces in the republican brief -- base. the political reality and, of course, what the pro-life movement has long wanted to accomplish. and...

The 2012 shooting was the deadliest attack on Sikh Americans in U.S. history. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and