Vaccines Articles
Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found that influenza vaccination coverage is well below the Healthy People 2020 objectives.
U.S. investigators assessed vaccine effectiveness during the 2010-2011 season in an attempt to characterize the relationship between antigenic characteristics of circulating viruses and effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccines.
U.S. Army Col. George Peoples, chief of surgical oncology at the San Antonio Military Medical Center, says he has come up with a vaccine he thinks will prevent cancer.
Updates about vaccines, including Alzheimer's disease, HPV, brain cancer, colorectal cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, prostate cancer and more.
In May 2012, the Texas Legislature passedSenate Bill 1107, a law that requires new college students to provide proof of receiving a bacterial meningitis vaccine10 days prior to the start of classes.
A genetically engineered smallpox vaccine reduced the risk of death for patients with advanced liver cancer by nearly 60 percent in a mid-stage study.
In a move to spark price competition as costs rise, UNICEF is publicizing how much drugmakers are charging it for vaccines.
The 2012 vaccine schedule for children and adolescents incorporates changes for the use of several vaccines adopted over the past year.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer’s Prevnar 13 for use in adults 50 years and older.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first vaccine that protects against four strains of the common flu.
Global production of seasonal flu vaccine is expected to double to 1.7 billion doses by 2015, with 11 new manufacturers expected in developing countries.
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are at greater risk of shingles compared with the general population.