immunology

At least we’re learning. Remember when the early reaction to the outbreak of a deadly virus in Wuhan was to discourage people from changing their trav...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave a great grade to Pennsylvania last week. The agency’s vaccination map proclaimed that 95% of state...

With COVID-19 cases surging in Europe and the possibility of a new late-year wave in the U.S., it is becoming clear that vaccination alone will not re...

The McKean County Department of Emergency Management is working with Universal Primary Care, located in Bradford, and local school districts to help g...

HARRISBURG — With a combined flu vaccine and COVID-19 booster clinic in Bucks County as the backdrop, the Pennsylvania Departments of Aging and Health...

UNIVERSITY PARK (TNS) — More than 80% of the whitetail deer in research conducted in Iowa from last December to January tested positive for the virus ...

Two of the four local counties have COVID vaccination rates above 50, while case counts and deaths from the virus continue to rise. Elk and Cameron co...

Last Halloween, I gathered up a lawn chair and an enormous bowl of candy and sat on my front steps, not quite sure what to expect. Weeks earlier, the ...

In an age in which religiosity is waning, the notion that a person would forgo a medical treatment, perhaps even a life-saving one, because of sincere...

For more than a year the world has been fixated on developing and deploying a vaccine for the coronavirus, but scientists have been working for decade...

Flu season is approaching, and medical experts are strongly recommending the flu shot for everyone eligible to get it. Don’t be lulled into a false se...

The proportion of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations among vaccinated Pennsylvania residents rose sharply last month, though the shot remained b...

Too many lives have been lost. Families, communities and nations have been devastated. … Our marathon effort has been a success, but the last mile may...

FORT WORTH, Texas — When the story of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, it will need to include several chapters — perhaps several volumes — about the...

Booster shots are not a new idea. Kids get them periodically for measles and mumps, for diphtheria and for chickenpox. Adults are cautioned to get a t...

Articles have been published in the Times Herald voicing displeasure with unmasked and unvaccinated individuals, and attacking our county leaders who ...

A year and a half into the pandemic, the long-feared specter of rationed health care — that is, the delay or denial of medical treatment to some patie...

Millions of Americans are now eligible to receive a Pfizer booster shot to help increase their protection against the worst effects of the coronavirus...

HERSHEY — Pennsylvania’s network of vaccine providers is ready to deliver booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine as soon as federal authorities sign...

Rosie Goris lost two family members and a close friend to COVID-19. So it was a no-brainer that she would agree to host a vaccination clinic at her Yo...