#vaccination

#vaccination

The toy drive is part of several holiday events at NYU Langone family health centers and community school-based programs, aimed at brightening the season for about 5,500 children who might otherwise go without gifts. In total, NYU Langone plans to distribute more than 5,400 educational gifts to children up to age 14 across its family health center locations, as well as its hospital campuses in Brooklyn and on Long Island. The health system is also distributing coats and food to adults at one of its centers.

Older adults, infants and toddlers, and people with chronic medical conditions are most at-risk for complications associated with the illness. SFDPH recommended the 2025-2026 shot for anyone over six months old who has not already received it. Experts usually suggest that people get their shot in the fall, ahead of the coming season's peak. You can find access to a vaccine here, and many local pharmacies accommodate walk-ins.

An intense surge in flu cases driven by a newly dominant virus strain is sweeping across Europe, placing healthcare systems in several countries under severe pressure, the World Health Organization has said. The WHO said on Wednesday that at least 27 of the 38 countries in its European region were reporting high or very high influenza activity, with more than half of patients with flu-like symptoms testing positive in six countries including Ireland, Serbia, Slovenia and the UK.

Pregnant people who get a COVID vaccine are dramatically less likely to experience severe symptoms of the disease or to give birth prematurely, according to a comprehensive new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Those who got the shot during pregnancy, rather than before they were pregnant, showed even lower odds of health complications. The findings add to a growing body of evidence that COVID vaccines are safe and beneficial across different populations.

Both countries are still listed at "Level 1," which is the CDC's lowest warning level and comes with a recommendation to "practice usual precautions." For India, there has been at least one report of a case in the United States from a traveler who came from India. A counterfeit ABHAYRAB human rabies vaccine has also reportedly been circulating through major cities in India.

When I was a kid, my parents were terrified about my catching polio or measles or whatever. And friends of mine died,

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I've spent two decades in public health and bioethics. I'm also a mom and a grandmother. Our family is vaccinated. Vaccination has more than two centuries of evidence behind it. Smallpox, polio, measles, diphtheria, tetanus: gone or drastically reduced. Modern monitoring systems continue to watch vaccine safety in real time. That's the public-health story most people know. Here's the psychology underneath-why smart, loving people still hesitate, and how we can help them move toward care.

When it comes to vaccines, president Donald Trump's attitude tends to be "do what I say, not what I do." Over the weekend, it was revealed that Trump received both a flu shot and a COVID-19 booster during his second physical of 2025. News of Trump's inoculations came from Trump's personal physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, who wrote that the shots were part of a preventative health battery "in preparation for upcoming international travel."

Roughly 31% of weekly tests are coming back positive for rhinovirus and enterovirus. Doctors say this signals a rough cold and flu season ahead. "As a pediatric ICU physician and a pediatrician, I am bracing myself. I am worried about what's going to happen in the winter months," said Dr. Rishma Chand with Dignity Health Northridge Hospital. She said a cough, sore throat, diarrhea and vomiting should be taken seriously. Her advice is to treat symptoms with rest, fluids and over-the-counter meds.

If you feel unwell with a bad throat and a temperature you may well have caught one of the new strains of Covid circulating this autumn. XFG, called Stratus by some, and NB.1.8.1, known as Nimbus, are now the most common variants being passed around in the UK, according to officials. Experts say these do not appear to pose any bigger threat than previous types of Covid or make people feel more ill.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.