The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention are guaranteeing the availability of as many as 97 million influenza shots in the U.S. market this upcoming flu season.

According to the CDC, along with the addition of GlaxoSmithKline, there are four companies providing vaccines to the United States

Doctors discover a new test that detects iron deficiency in infants earlier and more accurately than the commonly used hemoglobin screening test

Swedish researchers recently discovered a virus named human bocavirus, which they believe causes respiratory infections in children.

Their report, published in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, underlines how little doctors know about the sources of most respiratory infections

A new study shows chicken pox is slowly being eliminated as more and more children - some 90 percent in the U.S. - are receiving a preventive vaccine

A top medical specialist says Wednesday the practice of French hospitals keeping fetuses and stillborn babies is commonfare throughout the European nation.

The revelation comes just one day after the discovery that 351 stillborn babies and fetuses were being kept in the morgue of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital, some as long as two decades