Vaccine News
An Ohio Measles Outbreak Could Be A Warning Sign
More than 90% of kids infected with measles in the Columbus area were unvaccinated, raising alarm as vaccination rates slip…
Experimental cancer vaccine both treats and prevents brain cancer in mice
Researchers estimate that more than 13,000 Americans received a diagnosis of glioblastoma — a type of brain cancer — in 2022. And additional researchTrusted Source shows…
USDA approves world’s first vaccine for honeybees
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted a conditional license for a vaccine that helps protect honeybees from a deadly bacterial…
Damar Hamlin: How anti-vaxxers exploited player’s collapse
Online activists used the on-field collapse of American football star Damar Hamlin to spread anti-vaccination messages starting just minutes after…
Amid low demand, global coronavirus vaccination set to slow in 2023
For much of the pandemic, the main obstacle to vaccinating the world against the coronavirus was a lack of supply, as wealthy…
Top vaccine news from 2022: COVID-19 boosters, malaria, Ebola and more
Updated COVID-19 shots, including bivalent boosters, dominated vaccine news in 2022, but good news also came for vaccines against malaria,…
Local health departments working to restore trust as they fight vaccine misinformation
OKLAHOMA CITY — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the Health Department here, was concerned to…
Researchers make important progress toward a possible universal flu vaccine
Influenza is continuing its early and severe rampage through the United States, but there’s some hopeful news for flu seasons…
Parents struggle to find bivalent booster appointments for younger kids
COLORADO, USA — Some parents that are trying to get their kids the omicron-specific COVID-19 booster ahead of the holidays…
Vaccination rates are falling, and it’s not just the COVID-19 vaccine that…
Vaccines offer a potent armour against infectious diseases that once carried a heavy toll of mortality and morbidity, particularly among…
Updated COVID booster shots reduce the risk of hospitalization, CDC reports
New bivalent COVID booster shots are more effective at reducing risk of hospitalization than boosters of the original vaccines, the Centers for…
More than a third of parents oppose vaccine requirements in schools, KFF…
More than a third of US parents say that vaccinating children against measles, mumps and rubella should be an individual…
Vaccine misinformation one of the biggest public health threats, CDC director says
A small but growing measles outbreak in central Ohio has sickened at least 77 children, almost all under age 5. The…
Less than 50% of nursing home residents have received omicron booster ahead…
Less than 50% of nursing home residents, one of the country’s most vulnerable populations to severe illness from Covid-19, have…
Using my family’s dark history to teach about vaccines
How do you ask a community to trust medicine when history has given them many reasons not to? It’s a…