CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) released its 2021 recommended immunization schedule for adults as well as 2021 child and adolescent immunization schedules.

U.S. doctors are reporting an uptick in cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a complication of COVID, with more patients becoming critically ill or dying. Typical symptoms include fever, rash, red eyes, or gastrointestinal issues weeks after a coronavirus infection.

Despite the number of older adults who have prediabetes and diabetes, the risk of prediabetes progressing to diabetes in this population is not well understood. But new study findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine could help characterize prediabetes in older age.

February 12 marks the launch of a new COVID-19 immunization program, under which the federal government is supplying vaccine directly to pharmacies to administer. As the effort gets underway, approximately 6,500 locations—including pharmacies embedded in grocery stores—are now prepared to administer 1 million doses to the public.

Thousands of pharmacies set to begin administering COVID-19 vaccines on February 11 have vowed to make sure all 1 million doses they receive from the federal government make it into someone's arm.