Vaccine News
Colorado health department to begin texting parents whose children need COVID vaccine
Effective now, parents of elementary school-aged children can expect a text message from the Colorado health department if their kids…
‘This is alarming’: Childhood vaccination rates drop as measles and polio outbreaks…
Immunization rates for measles, polio and other diseases once again dropped among kindergartners last school year, a trend public health officials warn puts kids…
Seniors shrug off White House urgent pleas to get vaccinated as new…
State and federal health officials are frustrated that thousands of seniors have landed in the hospital with Covid-19 since the…
Oops, We Missed An Immunization Appointment. How Important Is The Pediatric Vaccine…
There’s been a lot of talk about kids’ vaccines these past couple of years. While many of those conversations not…
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…