All children ages 6 months or older without contraindications should be vaccinated against the flu, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said in updated recommendations.

Vaccines reduce the risk of children and teens dying from flu by 80%, the AAP said in its Monday statement.

But for last flu season, fewer than half (49%) of kid... Full Page

Prepared foods sold at some Trader Joe's, Target, Walmart, Hannaford, Kroger, Stop and Shop and Whole Foods stores are being pulled from shelves because the jalapeños they contain may carry Salmonella.

Taylor Fresh Foods of Salinas, California, announced the voluntary recall Sunday after learning that its pepper supplier wa... Full Page

Federal regulators have granted accelerated approval to a novel therapy for advanced melanoma — giving doctors another weapon to fight this challenging skin cancer.

Tudriqev is an oncolytic viral therapy, which means it is a virus that targets cancer cells. For this new targeted therapy, scientists trained the herpes simplex virus to... Full Page

Working from home won’t necessarily help a new mother breastfeed, a new study says.

Mothers who worked from home had lower breastfeeding rates than those working outside the home, researchers reported recently in the Western Journal of Nursing Research.

Surprisingly, stay-at-home moms reported the lowest rates of exclu... Full Page