Vaccine News
Preparing For TB, Polio, Measles, and COVID-19 Outbreaks
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) agency recently issued a public health notice regarding the prevention and…
Many nursing homes struggling to give residents and staff members COVID vaccine…
Despite being among the first eligible for COVID-19 booster shots, many nursing homes are struggling to boost residents and staff, experts…
New Vaccine Findings Pose Tough Questions for Parents of Young Children
For American parents, particularly those with young children, the last couple of months have been dizzying and beyond frustrating. In…
This season’s flu vaccine was a poor match for the virus, CDC…
This season’s flu vaccine offers meager protection against mild cases of influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. Against…
Vaccinating Kids Has Never Been Easy
In September 1957—two years after church bells rang in celebration of the new polio vaccine, two years after people rejoiced…
Pandemic babies may need to catch up on immunizations
While parents await the outcome of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for kids under 5 years old, others may be struggling…
Everything Parents Need to Know About the MMR Vaccine
routine childhood vaccination, the MMR vaccine protects against measles, mumps, and rubella: three diseases that once put American children at risk…
Large Study Confirms Most mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects Are Mild and…
A review of adverse events following vaccination against COVID-19 with mRNA vaccines in the USA confirms that most side effects…
Bubbles, breathwork or bribery? If your kid has needle phobia, try these…
When comic artist and physician Grace Farris discovered that her young son had developed needle phobia, she knew she needed…
Israeli child diagnosed with polio in first case since 1988
Israeli health officials have identified the country’s first case of polio in decades, according to reports. An unvaccinated child, 4, from…
A Nigerian Doctor’s Fight for Equitable Access to Vaccines
Throughout the pandemic you have been critical about vaccine inequity, especially in Africa. How did it feel when the W.H.O….
The U.S. is about to approve a fourth COVID vaccine that could…
It might not be long until a fourth COVID vaccine is available in the U.S., and it’s a big deal….
Lessons from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic
Look at the dates: 1890-1918; 1878-1918; 1896-1918; 1917-1918 … Every person buried on this snowy slope in Barre, Vt, died…
Experts say vaccine effectiveness for young children isn’t waning, despite some reports
Is Pfizer’s Covid vaccine less effective than previously believed in 5- to 11-year-olds? On Monday, a paper that suggested as much was posted on…
NIH needed help reaching communities of color about Covid-19, but grassroots groups…
From the very beginning of his presidency, Joe Biden has pledged to make sure communities hit hardest by Covid-19 will…