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 ...

Health officials accused a NY nurse practitioner of running a fake school vaccination records scam. It's the latest in a ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization announced Friday it has authorized the use of an mpox vaccine, calling it an “important step” ...

It can spread through direct contact and contaminated objects. Though the smallpox vaccine offers some protection against mpox, it is not absolute. High-risk groups are advised to take the mpox ...

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