The incidence of chickenpox has declined with widespread use of live-attenuated varicella vaccine in infants (Journal Watch Feb 22 2002). To assess the vaccine's effectiveness, researchers ...

As of now, when it comes to protection against prevalent diseases, Dr Gagandeep Kang, a renowned virologist, points that our ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that more than 500 California schools had 10% or more of their students on “conditional ...

These two reports address the effects of varicella-zoster vaccination and varicella vaccination. Richard Whitley, who chaired the data and safety monitoring board for the Shingles Prevention Study ...

Additionally, Dr. Brangman says that the Tdap vaccine, which protects against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, is also ...

Among military children, there has been an improvement in vaccine completion and timeliness, but the risk for noncompletion ...

Melbourne, Australia The Government has expanded access to GSK's shingles vaccine, Shingrix, to cover individuals aged 18 ...

More than 200,000 Australians who are immunocompromised will gain free access to the shingles vaccine in an expansion of a ...

Vaccines are safe and effective, but we're up against this polarization right now. It's difficult, it's hard to do the work,' ...

Closer takes a look at five vaccines you should get after you turn 50 to help protect against illness. Shingles: “The first ...

The vaccination rate of Florida kindergartners has fallen to 90%, the lowest in more than a decade, and pediatricians across ...

The San Francisco Unified School District will hold a Saturday pop-up clinic for students aged 4-6 who are not up-to-date on ...