Vaccines Articles
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.
Michigan State University researchers have created a new malaria vaccine that appears to increase the immune response against the parasite that causes the deadly disease.
The Nobel Foundation has awarded Ralph Steinman of Canada, American Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann of France the Nobel Medicine Prize for their discoveries concerning the body’s immune responses.
In a study in Australia, the HPV vaccine Gardasil helped to reduce the number of teenage girls who develop cervical abnormalities by as much as 50 percent.