Vaccine News
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…
Where Colorado ranks among states with highest flu vaccination rates
Your yearly flu vaccine protects you and those around you from the influenza virus, which could be deadly. Getting vaccinated…
New COVID booster authorization will sway parents to get young kids vaccinated,…
Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine chief, said he is well aware that COVID-19 booster uptake might…
The Covid Pandemic’s Hidden Casualties: Pregnant Women
Of all the groups still threatened by Covid-19 — including the elderly and the immunocompromised — it is pregnant women…
FDA clears updated COVID-19 vaccines for kids under age 5
U.S. regulators on Thursday cleared doses of the updated COVID-19 vaccines for children younger than age 5. The Food and…
Measles in the US: What to Know About Outbreaks, Vaccines and More
Cases of measles continue to grow in Central Ohio, following a joint warning from the US Centers for Disease Control…
Flu vaccine appears to be a very good match to circulating strains,…
This year’s flu shot appears to be “a very good match” to the circulating strains, US Centers for Disease Control…
Parents Refuse Baby’s Life-Saving Heart Surgery If Vaccinated Blood Is Used
New Zealand’s health agency is taking the parents of a four-month old infant to court for refusing life-saving heart surgery…