Vaccines

University Hospitals in Cleveland will begin a clinical trial of a booster shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this week.

A press release from Mount Carmel’s parent company Trinity Health says they will grant some medical and religious exemptions, but all other holdouts will have their employment terminated if they fail to meet a series of deadlines before the end of the year.

The Ohio House on Thursday approved a controversial bill to ban employers from making workers get vaccinated. Although the bill was tweaked to satisfy critics.

The controversial bill (HB 248) in the Ohio House that would ban businesses and schools from requiring vaccines was thought to be ready for a possible...

Data shows routine childhood vaccinations fell sharply in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic although rates began to rebound last summer. We explore the warning from pediatricians about making sure children are up-to-date on their shots.

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss the increase in vaccinations and publicity for Ohio's Vax-a-Million drawing.

Cleveland Clinic researchers are getting ready to embark on a clinical trial testing a breast cancer vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently greenlighted a breast cancer vaccine technology developed at Cleveland Clinic, which allows clinical trials for the vaccine to move forward. If effective, the vaccine could become a regular part of women’s health care, said Dr. Vincent Tuohy, a cancer researcher at the clinic who invented the vaccine.

It may not be surprising that the COVID vaccine is more effective than the flu shot. Scientists in Cincinnati are hard at work developing and testing...

Two pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer and Moderna, have developed coronavirus vaccines that are close to 95 percent effective.The speedy turnaround in…

The move is a reversal of Facebook's longstanding reluctance to block problematic content. Critics say public health misinformation has flourished on the social network.